On a hot summer's day, one can literally see heatwaves shimmering off the surfaces of inanimate objects.

Mr. Brewer gave me his version of the history of the Conference of Studio Unions. It appeared to me then and appears to me now to have been a very colored view.

Another transparent material for passivation is silicon nitride, Si₃N₄, that also acts as hardcoat.

As such men struggle to forge positive sexual identities, they must confront painful intersections of desire and oppression: white supremacist fantasies of hypersexuality, hyposexuality, or presumed perversity; heterosexist sentiments of disgust; erasures of desire imposed by societal expectations of people with disabilities or the aged; biofascist loathing for transsexual freaks.