Sentences with phrase «against darkened»

At night he was interested in the rung — like arrangements of lit and unlit floors against the darkened night sky.

Similarly, James Valerio's meticulous pencil drawing of a young man, David, becomes a portrait of competing textures — a zipper, a cable knit sweater, stubble on a chin — all viewed against a darkened background.

The bright lights against darkened streets.

Starting at $ 32,990, the LaCrosse, which goes on sale in early summer 2016, features a new grille design with a large opening distinguished by the return of a three - color — red, silver and blue — Buick tri-shield insignia, accented by wing - shaped elements set against darkened waterfall grille bars inspired by the 1954 Wildcat II concept.

The Cassini spacecraft observes three of Saturn's moons set against the darkened night side of the planet.

The very shallow sun angle on the rings caused the clouds of debris to look bright against the darkened rings in pictures from Cassini's imaging science subsystem.

Fred Schein walked briskly through the play lot and then to the edge of the sand, where a lone willow tree was silhouetted against the darkening blue of the lake and sky.

Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East.

Those eye - catching tracks remain throughout this film, particularly in the stunning sequence when a gas explosion deafens Plainview's adopted son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier) and turns the derrick into a kind of flaming monolith against the darkening desert sky.

I went in the evening, when the collection of fine bridges, lit from below in a spectrum of changing colours or silhouetted against the darkening sky, teamed with Norman Foster's massive and undulating Sage concert hall — refered to locally as The Slug — lit from within, and the myriad of Christmas lights, illuminated the sluggish black river.

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I railed against institutions and organizations, wouldn't darken the door of a «real» church, became fluent in fault - finding and cynicism, the word «orthodoxy» made my left eye twitch, while you tacked hard the other way, steering towards seminary, conservative denominations, structures, authorities, you longed for accountability.

Four in the morning and buried deep in an industrial district in a darkened, cavernous warehouse, frenetic breakbeats push up against the walls, lights flash rhythmically, and bodies move in time with bass that shakes the ceiling.

Under the darkening shadow of Stalin and Hitler, he raged against the propaganda — induced conformity that was producing «mass man,» and against those in the Church who welcomed that counterfeit obedience.

Even familiar things that have never been scary before, like his darkened bedroom, may suddenly seem frightening against the backdrop of what he's been conjuring up all day.

Fliedner was also the prosecutor who won a manslaughter conviction against NYPD cop Peter Liang for the 2014 accidental shooting of Akai Gurley in a darkened housing - project stairwell.

The high - speed lens has a 1 / 30000 of a second response time and auto - darkening technology, ensuring maximum protection for your eyes against harmful ultraviolet and infrared light.

What begins with only a few stars visible against the glare of the moon slowly turns into a thousand points of light as the eclipsed moon darkens.

In a quiet, darkened lecture room, you begin a frustrating fight against fatigue.

On his knees, with his right arm deep in her vagina and his cheek brushing up against her buttocks, his face is a picture of concentration and his scrubs are darkening with sweat.

The skin darkens in response to the exposure to the sun, calluses develop in response to the friction against the skin and your muscles grow larger in response to the extra resistance placed on them.

The product claims to «Perfectly hydrates and protects your skin against UV rays, brown spots, skin darkening and premature ageing.

Indeed, movies and the wonder they inspire, «like seeing dreams in the middle of the day,» are central to the story, and Selznick expresses an obvious passion for cinema in ways both visual (successive pictures, set against black frames as if projected on a darkened screen, mimic slow zooms and dramatic cuts) and thematic (the convoluted plot involves director Georges Méliès, particularly his fanciful 1902 masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon.)

I stood in my darkened bedroom, the phone hot against my ear.

This rich historical novel concludes the trilogy that started with And I Darken (2016) and Now I Rise (2017), focusing on bloodthirsty Lada Dracul the Impaler, her obsession with ending Mehmed's control over her, and her thorough vengeance against any foe, perceived or real.

There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before.

She's elevated the simple pet portrait to something more dynamic and artistic with her use of color and setting; brown dogs pop off the image against vivid purple and become moody and stoic in a darkened barn.

Yet it also darkens them, huddled tightly against the blue field of a somber sky.

With such works as «Path II» (1960) and «Alchemist» (1960), dense pictorial dramas are unleashed, with colors and forms competing against one another in a storm of darkened strokes.

Contrast increases and shadows darken against the white light of the sun.

In Rotating Corners from 1971, graphite darkens panels some seven feet tall, like the triptych leaning against a facing wall.

Extension cables loop upwards toward an installation in the darkened attic, where an immersive installation remounts an account of the 1989 armed uprising in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, when the Bougainville Resistance Army rebelled against both Papua New Guinean occupation and the island's Australian - owned copper mine, Conzinc Rio Tinto.

The Harlem Renaissance, with its celebration of African American music, art, literature and history, was in full force, as paintings such as William H. Johnson's vibrantly coloured Street Life, Harlem (1939) and Arthur Dove's Swing Music (Louis Armstrong)(1938, below) suggest, while the latter also reflects the rising force of abstraction, its irregular shapes in varying reds and yellows against a deep black background evoking «red hot» jazz in a darkened space.