I grew up preferring gray, foggy days, but sentimentality is now making memories of such days fuzzier and grayer.
Black Fridays, unlike Black Mondays are meant to signify some good/bad day, whether it’s ignoring opportunity costs by standing on line in the cold, waiting to elbow someone out of a bargain, or experiencing the greater chaos of a stock market crash.
And then there’s the bleeding of product consumption into Gray Thursdays or Gray Novembers...etc.
The cultural and cinematic convention of fading to black is more likely a fading to white in reality in terms of an absence of color.
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Grey's Anatomy is a hit show for ABC, but Gray's Anatomy is a seminal medical textbook now in its 40th edition.
- The word siwy means blue-gray in Polish (literally it means the color of gray hair).
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Four out of five auto replacement parts (grey market) are uncertified for quality and safety.
The first recorded use of grey as a color name in the English language was in AD 700.[4]
Grey is the dominant spelling in European and Commonwealth English, although gray remained in common usage in the UK until the second half of the 20th century.[5] Gray has been the preferred American spelling since approximately 1825,[6] although grey is an accepted variant.[7][8]
In Europe and the United States, surveys show that grey is the color most commonly associated with neutrality, conformity, boredom, uncertainty, old age, indifference, and modesty. Only one percent of respondents chose it as their favorite color.[9]
In the late 1930s, grey became a symbol of industrialization and war. It was the dominant color of Pablo Picasso's celebrated painting about the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, Guernica.[13]
After the war, the grey business suit became a metaphor for uniformity of thought, popularized in such books as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), which became a successful film in 1956.[14]
Over the centuries, artists have traditionally created grey by mixing black and white in various proportions. They added a little red to make a warmer grey, or a little blue for a cooler grey. Artists could also make a grey by mixing two complementary colors, such as orange and blue.
Today the grey on televisions, computer displays and telephones is usually created using the RGB color model. Red, green, and blue light combined at full intensity on the black screen makes white; by lowering the intensity, it is possible to create different shades of grey.
In printing, grey is usually obtained with the CMYK color model, using cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Grey is produced either by using black and white, or by combining equal amounts of cyan, magenta and yellow.
Most greys have a cool or warm cast to them, as the human eye can detect even a minute amount of color saturation.
Yellow, orange, and red create a "warm grey". Green, blue, and violet create a "cool grey".[18] When no color is added, the color is "neutral grey", "achromatic grey" or simply "grey". Images consisting wholly of black, white and greys are called monochrome, black-and-white or greyscale.
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So how was your shopping/eating these past two days … mine was spent doing my daily caretaking of mom? and being whelmed because overwhelmed seems excessive, even terminal.