As it drifted away, it played out a barely visible thread.

Now it's a barely visible black thread.

Only the barely visible thread leading to the keyboard in his hand revealed that the eye patch he was wearing was very hi-tech indeed.

A barely visible silvery thread extended three diameters straight out from a point on its equator.

But now a soft webbing, a mesh of barely visible threads, lay over the upper levels of the lifedome.

It was near noon, with the sun high above the southern mountains and the new Earth a barely visible thread of silver a few degrees away from it.

The human in its environment has been a visible thread through his 40 year career.

Yet we are tied to one another by a million visible and invisible threads.

These are either couched like passing, with the couching thread visible, or with the thread angled with the twist to make it invisible.

"Dance through the Decades" was spelled out in letters cut from sheet music that hung from barely visible threads above the display.