They looked like chaotic negatives of random streaks and spirals.

It was quiet inside, unnaturally quiet; the room was dark, the random streaks of harsh white light from the massage parlour across the road flickered on the walls and furniture, giving a strange chiaroscuro effect.

The shape was the same--an elongated pentahedron, each triangular side deeply indented with triangular planes so that it flew like a four vaned spear point The color, as always, a weathered silver-green, marbled by random streaks of pale rust.

It's a dark, amber-toned painting with a luminous center, and several exuberant, seemingly random streaks for the trails of the pyrotechnics.

It gleamed like silver ore in scattered patches and random streaks, breaking up the gloom sufficiently to allow a relatively safe passage through.

With a shake of her head, Lessa turned her attention to the wide-shouldered, well-muscled back he presented her, the paler skin of his body decorated with random bloody streaks.

For one thing, the atmosphere has a chaotic, random streak that frustrates precision and predictability.

But you've retained that particular quirky beauty that calls to something in me, some random or rogue streak, and this time I'm answering.

When he doesn't have anything to say that pertains to the transaction at hand, he talks a random streak of nonsensical, scurrilous, imaginative, blustery, and occasionally poetic patter he calls "trash."

With the mummy and the generator removed, the murder scene had become an empty circle of brown grass marked with random streaks of yellow chemical and outlines of white chalk.