Sentences with phrase «as faint»

This is likely to embolden him as the faint hopes the democrats have of ousting him disappear.

But what initially may come off as faint and / or ineffectual quickly becomes experientially complex.

We see ghosts as faint images of what has changed, decayed or transformed in his painting.

Meanwhile, «Accord I» (1962) reconciles the grouping of Guston's black forms while still offering richness and warmth, as faint hues of color peek through pewter grey grounds.

As the faint sunlight scattered on the ground we heard an engine roaring in distance.

Now, drifting in with the breeze, as faint as a distant insect drone, came the sound of a gunned motor.

Awake it was difficult to find anything in that chaotic clutter, but asleep she could, just as Mama Fresia had taught her in the gentle nights of her childhood, when the contours of reality were as faint as a tracery of pale ink.

Autoblog Editor Damon Lavrinc described the Ford announcement as a faint light glowing during this otherwise dark time.

Dear reader, that is as faint as praise gets.

This light fills the sky as a faint glow in the radio portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, peaking in the microwave frequency range.

Already under fairly good conditions, the nebula itself can be glimpsed with the naked eye as a faint nebulosity around this star.

This is so narrow, just a few foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy are visible and are vastly outnumbered by the menagerie of far more distant galaxies, some nearly as faint as 30th magnitude, or nearly four billion times fainter than the limits of human vision.

In 1960, one of these bright radio - emitting objects was identified as a faint, bluish - looking «star» by astronomers using the 200 - inch telescope on Palomar Mountain in California.

The British amateur observer William Denning discovered it in the late nineteenth century, and described it as faint, small and round

First, HDST must have a large primary mirror area both to gather enough photons (exoEarths are as faint as the faintest objects in the Hubble Deep Field) and to cleanly separate the planet and star for hundreds of star systems, many of which are tens of parsecs [2] away.

It appears as a faint star to the lower right of the central region of its host galaxy M82 (Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech)

The British amateur observer William Denning discovered it in the late nineteenth century, and described it as faint, small and round (Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA)

It appears as a faint star to the lower right of the central region of its host galaxy M82

When I scanned the area with my 7 x 50 I immediately detected NGC 253 as a faint smudge of light.

The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, is one of only a few galaxies that are visible from Earth with the unaided eye, and is seen as a faint smudge in the constellation Andromeda.

From a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A or B, Proxima Centauri would appear as a fourth to fifth magnitude star, as bright as the faint stars of the constellation of Ursa Minor.

Omega is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye as a faint star - like point within the lopsided hexagonal body of the Centaur.

ARIES is typically sensitive to stars approximately 5.3 Ks magnitudes fainter than the target star within 1» and approximately 5.7 Ks magnitudes fainter within 2», but can detect stars as faint as delta Ks = 7.5 under ideal conditions.

It was originally detected by its gravitational attraction on the larger, brighter star and only later observed visually as a faint object (now called Sirius B), about 10,000 times fainter than Sirius (now called Sirius A) or 500 times fainter than the Sun.

«The discovery is telling us that galaxies as faint as this one exist, and we should continue looking for them and even fainter objects so that we can understand how galaxies and the universe have evolved over time.»

It appears as a faint red color to the eye.

But about 1 % of them are re-emitted as a faint red glow.

The coastline itself — the edge of the glacier ice — appears as a faint white line.

Even in the best telescopic views such a small and distant object just appears as a faint point of light.

But von Hippel, Gilmore and their colleagues used the Hubble Space Telescope, and this allowed them to identify and measure the temperature of white dwarfs as faint as 25th magnitude, which is about 100 million times fainter than any star visible with the naked eye.

If those objects are bigger than Jupiter, longer exposures with NICMOS could reveal them as faint points of light, notes team member Glenn Schneider of the University of Arizona in Tucson.

The only reason we didn't find anything is that photographic plates can't pick up things as faint as what we can see today with new technology — and we got unlucky.

The strange sensation in his right thigh muscle began as a faint pulse.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — About 1 % of the light that strikes plants is re-emitted as a faint, fluorescent glow — a measure of photosynthetic activity.

Mars also appears, as a faint red dot, above and to the left of Venus.

«That we detected galaxies as faint as we did supports the idea that a lot of little galaxies reionized the early universe and that these galaxies may have played a bigger role in reionization than we thought,» says Rachael Livermore, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin.

Judging from images of these far - flung galaxies, they found the Milky Way likely began as faint, blue, low - mass object containing lots of gas.

The possible ring appears as a faint streak near Jupiter's moon Himalia in an image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

But that is because there are no pollution controls whatsoever on the old plant, whose emissions are detectable, if at all, as a faint haze.

The International Archery Federation holds its meet in Brussels this July, and it may come as a faint surprise to 150 million Americans that we are the defending champions.

it is pleasantly sweet, and the poppy seeds add a tiny bit of crunch as well as a faint nutty flavor.

The characteristic features of the present age could of course be detected in former times as faint traces, so to speak, because man was always to some degree the inventor and active manipulator of his own situation and the creator of himself.

I slid down further in my seat, tucking my toes under my backpack as a faint blush crept over my cheeks.

The monthly data points are preserved as faint dots.

Our task is to learn to feel its punch and kick as well as the faintest stirrings of the divine mystery as it moves within us.

These include chest pain and shortness of breath as well as fainting, known as syncope.

Proxima Centauri is about one one - hundredth as bright as the faintest stars our eyes can see without a telescope.

The comet, which is now about one - millionth as bright as the faintest star visible with the naked eye, can't be discerned in wide - field images taken by Rosetta's instruments.

When Lopes's group checked the patients» medical histories, the researchers found that those with slowly activating channels were two times more likely than patients with other mutations to die before age 30 or develop serious symptoms such as fainting spells or heart attacks.

This can cause one to develop symptoms such as fainting, dizziness upon standing, and general lightheadedness.