Sentences with phrase «brilliant flash of»

After treating it for woodworm, it was painted in white and light grey, with a brilliant flash of bright neon paint added at the bottom.

One year ago, the world of Asdivine was enveloped by a brilliant flash of light.

I am so grateful for that brilliant flash of blinding insight.

He looked at me with a brilliant flash of recognition, slapped his forehead gleefully, and said, «You mean the prophet!»

Mark Fisher disappeared from his home in a brilliant flash of blue light almost two years ago.

George's extraordinary change happens when he steps outside during his 37 birthday party and gets zapped by a brilliant flash of heavenly light that may or may not have been caused by a UFO.

The brilliant flash of an exploding star's shockwave — what astronomers call the «shock breakout» — is illustrated in this video animation.

When a brilliant flash of lightning struck nearby, Darrow said: «Boys, if lightning strikes this house tonight... 1»

At least once a day, a brilliant flash of gamma rays appears from a random direction.

The 2013 Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine are all potent reminders that science, though studded with the occasional brilliant flash of insight, almost always takes years of persistent toil to move forward.

While frequently heavy with longeurs, each of the chapters is also filled with brilliant flashes of insight.

Cosmic Bursts Demystified Gamma - ray bursts, brilliant flashes of radiation that occur in random directions roughly once a day, have for years been attributed to everything from colliding comets to natural particle accelerators.

Astronomers have known for three decades that brilliant flashes of these rays, called gamma - ray bursts, arrive daily from random directions in the sky.

Lately there are brilliant flashes of fiction almost everywhere you look.

Through extended exposures, he has photographically bottled the hazy, dreamy light of ocean vistas and movie theaters, and he has worked in laboratory - like environments to freeze brilliant flashes of electricity on paper, pinning down its feathery substance almost like a biological specimen, and he has even used artificial lighting to bring to life Madame Tussauds's wax statues and the inhabitants of natural - history dioramas, like some combination of Tesla and Dr. Frankenstein.

«gleam» deconstructs and reconstructs art history, from 19th - century Romanticism through to heroic realism, modernist sculpture, expressionism and abstract expressionism, presenting us with glints of the past as well as brilliant flashes of light, a time of transition and transformation.

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Whitehead's genius is evident in the intuitive flashes of insight which are not only brilliant in themselves but are also consistent with his metaphysical system.

Neil McCarthy's Finnegan, who showed flashes of both brilliant and indifferent form at Santa Anita this winter, was hard - put to win the California Derby at Tanforan on Saturday — passing the wire barely a head in front of E. O. Stice's Monk's Hood and two heads in front of Royal Orbit, who races for Mrs. J. Braunstein.

Captain Alex Rubin did his thing and showed flashes of that brilliant Playoff performance from a few Summers ago..

Amid flashes of brilliant color and the flutter of delicate wings, the Brookfield Zoo has taken the wraps off its summer - long tribute to that aerial ambassador of pollen and poetry, the butterfly.

A BRIEF but brilliant flash in the distant universe suggests that smacking two dead stars together can create heavy elements in vast amounts — including 10 moon masses» worth of gold.

Regardless of whether you think this is a brilliant idea or a god - awful one, it's a good time to flash back to 1984, when Kevin Bacon was such a nobody that Paramount couldn't picture him as rug - cutting rebel Ren McCormack.

What is more, the film brings a vivid immediacy to events which goes beyond anything on the written page, be it the face - to - face drama of Jed's dialogues with Joe (conducted in the novel mostly through letters and phone - calls), or the occasional brilliant reds (the balloon, blood, etc.) that flash from the film's otherwise subdued palette, signifying all at once eroticism, danger and passion with a visual economy reminiscent of the colour - codings of Zhang Yimou.

Her work as the eponymous Jackie proffers similar flashes of brilliant character work.

Some excellent performances from the leads (and some of the supporting cast as well: Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Adolphe Menjou, and Eve Arden), flashes of brilliant screwball dialogue and Gregory La Cava's efficient if uninspired direction make for a solid film.

Seattle premieres, 1976 (order of preference): Obsession (Brian De Palma); Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick); The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg); Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese), All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula); Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock); and, to round out the ten, four less - polished films that nevertheless flashed brilliant often enough to earn a place in my memory of «the best»: Carrie (Brian De Palma); Robin and Marian (Richard Lester); The Missouri Breaks (Arthur Penn); The Shootist (Donald Siegel).

The three variants of new Škoda Fabia are available in five colours — Cappuccino Beige, Brilliant Silver, Candy White, Deep Black and Flash Red.

Yet within these tiny and dazzlingly brilliant flashes are philosophical, thought - provoking, and often highly unsettling stories, the kinds of stories that remain in the mind and continue to haunt.

A 1.2 MP front camera allows for instant photos or high - quality video conferencing with friends, family or coworkers while an 8MP rear camera with auto - focus and LED flash takes brilliant photos or video thanks to a large F2.4 aperture, back illuminated CMOS sensor, touch - to - focus depth of field and low - light noise reduction to provide the clearest and sharpest photos or even 1080P HD videos.

Paul's stories are widely published in print and online in the following magazines amongst others: Connecticut Review, Literary Orphans, Blue Fifth, Litro, Playboy, Jellyfish Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Molotov Cocktail, and Thrice Fiction His blog is www.pincusb.com Paul hosts the FBomb NY flash fiction reading series monthly at KGB's Red Room in New York and had a story picked for the 2018 Norton Anthology of Micro FicFlash Fiction, Molotov Cocktail, and Thrice Fiction His blog is www.pincusb.com Paul hosts the FBomb NY flash fiction reading series monthly at KGB's Red Room in New York and had a story picked for the 2018 Norton Anthology of Micro Ficflash fiction reading series monthly at KGB's Red Room in New York and had a story picked for the 2018 Norton Anthology of Micro Fiction.

It has a much better display — the QHD Super AMOLED display is much sharper (577 PPI versus 403 PPI) and more brilliant, the processor is more advanced (20nm versus 14nm) and faster, it uses the new USF 2.0 much faster flash memory, faster DDR4 RAM, the larger FFC with f1.9 (5MP versus 2.1 MP), better placement of the loudspeaker (bottom versus backside), wireless charging and faster charging (4 hours in 10 minutes versus 60 - percent in 30 minutes) and the unique dual curve edged display with an all metal frame made from aircraft quality metals and Gorilla Glass 4 on both the display and the back of the device.

by Laura West It never fails that brilliant idea, the sudden flash of inspiration or the perfect solution comes you when you are doing something else.

More brilliant than many round stones — which have long been considered the industry standard for brilliance — the Brian Gavin Signature Cushion Cut Diamond with Hearts and Arrows has been carefully cut and precisely formulated to achieve maximum brilliance (brightness) and fire (flashes of color).

The flash freezes the subject and the camera motion creates a swirl of colour behind — brilliant in clubs and bars.

As the sun sinks, just at the very moment when the last bit of sun disappears into the sea, a tiny brilliant emerald - green «spark» will flash on the horizon.

But as with any other creative industry, for every brilliant flash, there are dozens of duds.

Pixeljam are indie developers who make brilliant flash games: we've been a fan of their work for years, and finally met them at GDC in 2011.

Rich passages of brilliant color abound; an aqueous, briny, sea - soaked passage of shimmering blue evokes the deep and fathomless ocean, while fleshy areas of luminous peach convey flashes of bare skin surrounded by frothy waves and or a late afternoon shower.

From flashes of red when a teammate is down, or a brilliant wave of colors with each kill streak, the possibilities are endless as you integrate advanced lighting effects that are specific to each game.