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windowpane

win doh payn

  • n  a pane of glass in a window
  • n  very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America

  • With cameras available to record the view behind the windowpane, the artist must concentrate on making his window preeminent.
  • Its lyrical first stanza, in which Shade as a boy gazes at reflections in a window, is one of the best: I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane .
  • Looking at it is rather like watching a snowstorm through a windowpane and remembering Thomas Nash's line: "Brightness falls from the air.
Quotes

  • Bono in Rolling Stone
    On this album, you can feel what is going on in the world at the window, scratching at the windowpane,says Bono, who sings this atmospheric ballad from the point of view of a war correspondent.
  • Fyfe Dangerfield in I Like Music
    We didn't want to make Through The Windowpane 2,says lead singer Fyfe Dangerfield. "That was a softer record. This time around we just wanted to make a bunch of pop songs that punched, instantly." "To make pop songs that demand your...
  • Jennifer Carpenter in Philippine Star
    Discussing Quarantine, Carpenter says, "The thing that turned me on about it is the idea that we're this group of people, mostly strangers, trapped in a building, fighting for our lives. Safety is just through that windowpane. It's just a couple of...

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