Sentences with phrase «feeble lights»

And with its feeble light we slowly ventured out to the garden and attempted to cover the plants using tarps and bricks.

But dust — which comes from colliding asteroids and evaporating comets — can outshine the feeble light of a planet, making this task difficult.

And the sky is bright enough at that moment to easily wash out the feeble light from the target.

Not exact matches

The lightest pressure of thee, H (a) oma, thy feeblest praise, the slightest tasting of thy juice, avails to the thousand - smiting of the D (a) evas.

Although he had found a way of life that was leading to his own wholeness, he still found it necessary to negate other faiths in order to affirm his own (cf. his reference to «the void of nirvana... the feeble intellectual light of Platonic idealism [and] the sensual dreams of the Sufis» in Seeds of Contemplation [New Directions, March 1949], p. 49 — omitted in the December 1949 revision).

The nebula's light is just too feeble and spread out.

Cool objects like brown dwarfs can be invisible when viewed by visible - light telescopes, but their thermal glow — even if feeble — stands out in infrared light.

People can detect flashes of light as feeble as a single photon, an experiment has demonstrated — a finding that seems to conclude a 70 - year quest to test the limits of human vision.

In an inversion of genre convention, blinding light is the antagonist for which the vast cloak of darkness surrounding the spaceship provides feeble shelter.

Sure, his earlier films like Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, or Dead Alive / Brain Dead will never reach a mainstream audience, but Frighteners was a fun little ghost story with a once - upon - a-star in it and it was released on laserdisc in an incredible version so I am sure it will see the light of day.

What's more, adding a laser into the light source provides superior brightness to an LED - only alternative, which currently remain quite feeble.

It hurried across the basement and into the feeble yellow glow of the furnace room's only light.

The light fixture above the door is set up for two bulbs, but one is missing, and the illumination that trickles down onto the garbage - flecked asphalt is feeble and oblique, casting a grimy mustard - colored disc, perhaps three feet in diameter.

Attracted to «anything that reflects light», he notes: «I have always found it difficult to draw my eyes away from these minerals which almost appear to sparkle with their own light, cleverly capturing the most feeble ray: breaking it down, giving it colour, concentrating it, multiplying it and then casting it back to harmoniously connect with the surrounding space, often reaching distances which seem infinite».

Unintelligible and vaguely threatening graffiti seems to originate from some brutish intellect, far removed from the sophisticated organising intelligence behind the painting; meanwhile the landscape itself offers meaningless signs and portents - a skull materialising amongst the leaves, a feeble arc of light which fails to illuminate.

The problem there is that you'd need to be a pretty light sleeper in general to be awoken by its feeble buzz.

«Instead of glaring light, or at the other end of the scale, feeble solar lights that don't really work in the winter when you need them most, there are now genuinely decorative pieces available which are still bright enough to act as a good security measure.»