Sentences with phrase «appears at a distance»

Close - up shots in contemporary movies can be up to three seconds shorter than ones in which a small face appears at a distance.

Note that this isn't how the Whirlpool would really appear at that distance.

As I glide my kayak through the tangled channels separating the mounds, which appear at a distance like green bristling mole hills, I can almost picture the long receded glaciers that carved these rock formations into the pleasing rounded shapes before me.

The transformation of these visual documents into works of art similarly denies the ideology of a progressive teleology inherent in modernist art history.3 Andrews» portraits of men who have died of AIDS or AIDS related causes, appear at a distance to be «shot» out of a fax machine, they are however, the result of a process of scratching into tablets layered with beeswax and graphite requiring hours of labour to complete.

Even after you already take the picture, you'll be able to bring anything in the picture into focus, even if it appeared at a distance.

Not exact matches

Go some distance away, because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or proportion is more readily seen.»

But in what appeared to be a dig at the United States, which has announced it is withdrawing from the accord, Francis lamented that «unfortunately some are distancing themselves from it».

It was my fourth pregnancy but for the first time, it seemed that we were really going to bring home a baby this time so Brian and I were giddy and young and hopeful at our core as we drove with my sister and her husband and her dog through the mountains as they began to appear out of the distance.

Nature seen at a distance appears to be malleable and in motion; but seek to lay hands on it, to deflect by force even the least of Life's directions, and you will encounter nothing but absolute rigidity, an unshakably stubborn refusal to depart from the pre-ordained path.

The links, which state that the women were observers from a distance at both the crucifixion and the burial, appear to be editorial additions made by a literary editor, rather than part of an original narrative from oral tradition.

At some level or limit, rhythms become brief enough to appear as recurrent present moments, in which case, they are «distanced» from long rhythms of (fluid) consciousness and require intuitive access.

Antonio Conte's men appeared to be on course to secure the crown due to their healthy lead, but two defeats in three matches have allowed Spurs to come within striking distance; online sports betting websites such as Guts now have Tottenham at odds of 9/2 to beat out their London rivals.

From a distance, tennis appears to be a wonderful world of strawberries and cream, of royalty at courtside and Cheryl Tiegs on the disco floor.

It's still somewhat outside that mainstream with New York elected officials however, and that distance was reflected in the paucity of electeds and candidates appearing at this rally.

On the one hand Farage appeared to be distancing himself from the obviously racist views of the caller, while at the same time saying that his fears of a «rape invasion» by foreigners were justified.

The police and government staff directed anyone appearing at the press conference carrying a sign to that zone, far out of sight or hearing distance of the Mayor.

At a distance of 5,500 light years, the blue straggler binary appears as a single point of light, but by analyzing the amount of ultraviolet light, the researchers saw the unmistakable signal of a white dwarf.

When smarter people's brains are scanned while «at rest,» long - distance connections appear stronger

It appeared that changing the thickness of the transparent plate affected not only the length of the plasma channel, but also the distance at which it arose.

But it would appear that guys like Einstein, Newton, and myself — guys who see Thing A controlling Thing B at a distance and wonder about it — are all of a sudden rather thin on the ground.

They seem so different because the angle at the lower left corner of the green table makes it appear more «vertical,» as though its back edge is receding into the distance.

At a distance of 94,512,036 miles, the sun appears 7 percent dimmer than it did in January, softening summer's heat.

The 10 new bursts observed at Arecibo over the course of two months all came from the same direction of deep space — also home to an FRB observed last year — and each burst appears to have traveled the same distance.

The bumpy country road wound deeper into the scrubland until at last an undulating shape appeared in the distance.

The slim, vertical pupil probably helps ambush hunters stalk prey at night by making objects at a distance from the snake's hideout appear sharper, says Brischoux.

They appear to be at very similar distances from us — around 7 billion light years — in a circle 36 ° across on the sky, or more than 70 times the diameter of the Full Moon.

At a distance of 1,000 light - years — farther than most of the stars you can see on a clear night — it would appear about as bright as the sun.

Although the disk appeared to span less than 100,000 light - years, astronomers had seen sprinkles of other stars scattered far beyond the disk at the same distance from Earth, suggesting that the stars also belonged to the galaxy.

At first glance, it appeared to have originated in an area of the sky around the Magellanic Clouds, two small satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way at a distance of about 200,000 light - yearAt first glance, it appeared to have originated in an area of the sky around the Magellanic Clouds, two small satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way at a distance of about 200,000 light - yearat a distance of about 200,000 light - years.

Though this kind of action at a distance appears to contradict Einstein's theory of relativity, nonlocality is now a fact of life following an experiment by Alain Aspect and his co-workers during the early 1980s.

Long a symbol of life and fertility in Eastern cultures, the fig tree has now shown that its sexual prowess is tops in the plant kingdom, at least in one respect: It appears to hold the distance record for how far its pollen routinely travels to fertilize other fig trees.

Fifteen to 20 seconds later the map appears on the laptop's screen, with simple graphs that display the area of the cave at different distances, and written explanations of the data, such as «30 feet ahead is a large opening».

According to Graney, Marius concluded that his observations showed that the stars were too close to Earth to satisfy the Copernican world view — which says that the stars lie at a huge distance from Earth, and so would appear as starry pinpricks to any observer.

A discrepancy between the model and reality appears only at greater distances (five nanometers or more) between the measuring tip and the gold surface.

A larger sixth planet, closer in mass to Saturn, also appears significantly in the data at a greater distance from HD 10180, but the study's authors note that the signal could be caused by a long - term magnetic cycle on the star rather than the tug of an orbiting planet.

In the lower part of the figure are plotted our Solar System planets as they would appear in reflected light around a Sun - like star at a distance of 10 pc.

It appears to be a main sequence red dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type M4.5 V. Because of its small mass and great distance from the primary (Star A), Upsilon Andromedae B appears to have a negligible effect on the radial velocity measurements used to determine that Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 2002).

At a distance of about 15,800 light - years (4,850 pc) from Earth, Omega Centauri is one of the few globular clusters visible to the naked eye — and appears almost as large as the full Moon when seen from a dark, rural area.

By comparing the apparent distance between two stars, with and without the Sun between them, Arthur Eddington stated that the theoretical predictions about gravitational lenses were confirmed, though it now appears the data were ambiguous at the time.

The three nebulae in this image may appear close together, but in actuality they reside at different distances from the Earth.

«These distance measurements allowed us to distinguish between pairs of galaxies that were actual pairs in 3D (meaning both are at the same distance from us) as opposed to two galaxies that appeared close on the sky but were actually at very different distances.»

The speeds seen in the quasars indicated that they were the most distant objects yet found, and, because they appear bright even at those great distances, must be extremely energetic.

For an object to appear as bright as most quasars do at their calculated distances, it must emit more energy than several dozen galaxies put together.

Sedna orbits the Sun at such a great distance that Sol appears as a bright point like a star, and some astonomers have designated it as a member of the inner Oort Cloud (more).

The two rocks just below the middle of the image on the right are smaller than they may appear: the left - hand one is 15 centimeters across, and the one in the center is 4 centimeters across, at a distance of about 85 centimeters from Huygens.

(Like Sedna, shown above, 2012 VP113 orbits the Sun at such a great distance that Sol appears as a bright point, like a star (more).

The exoplanet 51 Eri b, whose mass is estimated to be roughly twice that of Jupiter, appears to orbit its host star at a distance 13 times greater than the Earth - Sun distance.

While astronomers have observed some galaxies at this distance, they have only appeared as tiny red pin pricks.

Our Sun, much closer to us than any other star, lies in the disk (which is why the disk appears edge - on to us) at a distance of about 28,000 light years from the center.

While exposed water ice would not be stable at the surface of Ceres at its relatively close distance to the Sun, water and ammonia do appear to be bound up in crustal minerals on the asteroid's surface.