This was, in part, what drew him to making a prismatic study of Callas.

Because isn’t that what beauty is, in all of its prismatic totality — hard to kill, always in bloom?

The glass panels gleam in the sun, like an outsize version of the prismatic bluish-purple gem that glitters in the light.

Like hip-hop, breaking is represented by a prismatic range of cultures, each of which has evolved the form and lends its own flavors.

Joni Mitchell, 80, has been singing her prismatic folk ballad “Both Sides Now” since she was 23, and yet every time she performs it, she seems to be interpreting its infinitely wise lyrics anew.