Sentences with phrase «fading light of»

Alvarez translates her experience of the titular Japanese writer's fantastical prose and the fading light of an evening sun into an abstract field of subtly oscillating hues reminiscent of Agnes Martin's ethereal grids.

The characters are executed by three calligraphers during the length of a day, mirroring the fading light of the sun as the day comes to a close.

Some paintings are lonely and melancholy, like a loon call in the fading light of a late summer's evening, or as pristine, beautiful and refreshing as a beach wave breaking over your overheated body.

Yet prudish Rose is stuck in the fading light of yesteryear, searching for the nurturing companionship that eluded her childhood.

This feature works like high - end sleep devices for adults that gradually darken a room, imitating the soft fading light of a sunset.

When he looks at the literary situation of sixty years ago, I think Gioia is observing the fading light of the modern tradition, which, even in its nihilism and atheism, remained deeply religious — where faith is a necessity not only for prayer but also for painting.

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These Jack - of - all - trades shoes are light enough for speedwork, cushioned for long runs, and have a smooth ride that doesn't fade even as you pile on the miles.

He could see the red light of his jet's rocket fading away and also, falling more slowly, the pilot's parachute.

Freud was particularly influential in literary studies, and I sometimes think that the fading of my early desire to become an English professor came from an overdose of lit crit essays searching out Freudian imagery everywhere in the canon.

Pull down the idols of the tribe, debunk the status of the proud and powerful, desanctify the saints and desecrate the holy places: as the blinding sunlight of their glory fades, the gathering dusk reveals a hundred thousand points of lesser light each with a glory of its own.

But as Churchianity fades away, I am beginning to see glimmers of light as the grime from centuries of tradition is scrubbed away, and the glory of God begins to manifest itself among groups of Christians who just want to live life like Jesus in their communities.

Instead, J. B. utters his line and the light fades out, relieving him of the necessity to act in either manner.

Over the past 20 years, the word «Christmas» and related decorations have faded, leaving us with the «Festival of Trees and Lights.»

As a light - provider, Rudolph's glow fades into insignificance when compared to what happened when suddenly «the glory of the Lord shown around» a band of shepherds tending their sheep on a dark Palestinian night.

I pushed the mango down and it reveals a more lighter almost faded colour because of the slight acidity in the mango.

As summer and tomato season approach, Sunday dinners will be our version of uncooked caprese bruchetta, allowing us to stay outside until all the ambient light fades, but still eat dinner at a reasonable (according to us) hour.

By the time I had realized the error of my ways, it was too late, The burger had been devoured and the daylight had faded to dusk, so I lost the lighting for photographing this dish.

And instead of a picturesque seasonal spread you're left with fading light — because the prep took so long!

Saul was on his hands and knees, waiting, in the rapidly fading light, for the second team to come out of its huddle.

In light of the fading eminence of Kenya as the center of hunting in Africa, Botswana was virgin territory, rich in game — a bright prospect.

When LSU's fortunes faded in the dying light of the Mike Archer era and under Curley Hallman and Gerry DiNardo, so did this rivalry.

That left an awkward session of around an hour's play for Oxford to try to negotiate before the close, with the light fading and an experienced Cambridge seam attack running in with the new ball.

If they have one that is fairly light in colour chances are it may fade, but they tend to get bigger as your baby grows, getting deeper in colour, and more raised and bumpy and become sensitive to hormones and become more noticeable around the time of puberty.

When I was pregnant with BabyC, I knew that for the first few months of her life, she would wake often during the night, but I envisioned sweet nights with her — a dim light, a comfortable rocking chair, nursing her until she faded back to sleep.

The sweet slice jeans are the perfect acid wash skinny jeans that should be in every woman's closet!The faded wash shows off tan skin or illuminates light complexions with the peak - a-boo rips of the distressed style.

The low gloss surface of the film reduces glare and its ability to block up to 99 per cent of UV light reduces fade on fabrics.

Police and local elected officials, including Councilwoman Annabel Palma, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo and the chair of the local community board stood around waiting on the mayor for 45 minutes as the light faded.

If astronomers act quickly, they can turn other instruments toward the point of origin and record a rapidly fading afterglow of x-rays, visible light and radio waves.

The full - featured remote control lets you select the color you want from a panel of buttons, as well as dim the lights or set them to strobe, fade, flash, or cycle through.

Descending beneath the surface, the seemingly endless, light - flooded blue quickly fades, leaving nothing but utter darkness by a depth of roughly 200 meters (650 feet).

And just as stars, supernova explosions, and the Big Bang's fading glow all give off different frequencies of light, they also send out different frequencies of gravitational waves.

Your brain perceives the gradients where the tiles meet as curves, and you surmise that light hits the large, flat surface of the top tile and fades to shadow at its curved bottom edge; for the bottom tile, the opposite holds.

In the lab, the dots are extremely fast and their light does not fade over time, but more work needs to be done to see whether having these dots implanted disrupts the function of the neurons.

That cocoon of radiation may explain why light from the crash didn't fade quickly, researchers suggest.

But within hours, five groups had identified a new source of light in the periphery of galaxy NGC 4993, which they watched fade from bright blue to dim red in a matter of days.

The definitive evidence came from Hubble observations in near - infrared light of the fading fireball produced in the aftermath of a short gamma - ray burst (GRB).

Because sun - like stars gradually increase in luminosity as they age, this could mean that Kepler 452 b is a fading, geriatric world, once thriving with life but now withering beneath the slowly brightening light of its sun.

Optical telescopes swung into operation and detected a fading spot of ordinary light at the position of the gamma - ray burst.

They mostly appear as fleeting streaks of light lasting less than a second, but the brightest ones leave behind trails of vaporised gases and glowing air molecules that may take a few seconds to fade.

Together, these observatories watch the Sun in dozens of different wavelengths of light that reveal the Sun's surface and lower atmosphere, allowing scientists to track the eruption from its onset up through the solar atmosphere — and ultimately understand why it faded away.

Over the same period, signs of water ice — certain wavelengths missing from the light reflected back toward Earth — faded.

Optical and computer techniques were then used to compare the restored photos with the faded paintings to produce patterns of light that compensated for the damage, returning the original colours to the murals without further harm.

Ever since, scientists have watched the fading aftermath of supernova 1987A — and the second act of the show is now beginning: An immense shockwave from the explosion is smashing into a mysterious ring of gas that surrounds the dead star, causing it to light up once again.

But it only became visible when it was heated by the burst of x-ray and light energy from the explosion; since then, it has been slowly fading as the gas cools.

«When combined with previous work, it is remarkable now to be able to assemble a true molecular movie of the photocycle of this blue light detector in bacteria at atomic resolution, with the intermediate structures appearing and fading in the correct sequence.

Those early differences might have faded into distant memory, but they gained new significance in light of the twins» subsequent lives.

The ghostly green structures are so far outside the galaxy that they may not light up until tens of thousands of years after the quasar outburst, and would likewise fade only tens of thousands of years after the quasar itself does.

Quick follow - up observations undertaken with the 8.2 - m Antu instrument at European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Paranal and the 1.5 - meter Danish telescope at La Silla identified a faint, point - like object in visible light that was fading rapidly, the optical counterpart of the gamma - ray burst called the «afterglow» (Pedersen et al, 2000).

For about two weeks the star could be seen in daylight, but at the end of November it began to fade and change color, from bright white over yellow and orange to faint reddish light, finally fading away from visibility in March, 1574, having been visible to the naked eye for almost 16 months (more about Brahe's «acid tongue and silver nose,» the cultural shock of the «new star,» and how supernovae create high - energy radiation from Wallace H. Tucker).

Their dim light makes this difficult, and eventually the visible light left over from their birth fades completely beyond the red end of the visible spectrum, and they emit only infrared light.