Sentences with phrase «flickers across»

Moments later, the video distorts and a mash - up of private and found footage flickers across the screen.

The occasional lamp casts warm flickers across the tables and the faces peering closer for inspection.

The desire that flickers across Kidman's stern countenance says it all: Maybe the South will rise again after all.

On a recent weeknight, an anemic crowd sat nursing drinks mostly in silence as an episode of «Jeopardy!» flickered across a flat - screen TV.

Hollywood's increasingly complex portrayal of Islam flickered across American screens this past Tuesday, when Ahmed's «Sullivan & Son» began its third season and Fox debuted a new series from a producer of «24» and «Homeland.»

You're snuggling your little one to sleep and look down to see a tiny smile flickering across her face.

It's a directorial choice that some critics have questioned, but Attah never feels less than honest in those moments, even when high on drugs and hallucinating while part of a marauding band laying waste to a village; or when the exact nature of his and The Commandant's (Idris Elba) relationship is sickeningly revealed; or even in the quiet, tiny moments at the film's end when by the merest flicker across his face we understand how much the war outside has been internalized.

Written in scenes that can feel like vignettes, the story seems to flicker across the mind like shadow puppets or a zoetrope, haunting in its plain truths.

Sadness flickered across the black man's face for a moment and then it was gone.

A private furnished verandah could easily be the spot where guests can whittle away the day away while contemplating the dance of sunlight flickering across the water.

This appears as an aggressive flicker across the entire screen for most, and is a near - constant fixture from the start until the end of the game.

Legend has it that in a.d. 366 a monk crossing the desert had a vision of a thousand flaming lights flickering across the cliff face.

In these works, mysterious images flicker across fog and smoke, or silhouettes dance on walls.

Her intricate, abstracted landscapes acutely capture the ephemeral quality of light flickering across the land.

Not exact matches

We discussed the philosophy of history as Egyptians knelt in prayer before water cannons and as the fires set in the Ministry of Finance in Athens flickered light across the marble of the Acropolis.

The morning candles flicker and this busted up heart of mine, it just keeps slow thawing and there it is, across times and trials, the reverberating question:

Even as it becomes ever clearer that austerity has failed in Britain as it has across Europe, so the dead hand of the Balls office kills off any flicker of delivering change.

Currently, the best measurements of those variables come from a system called very - long - baseline interferometry (VLBI), which uses radio dishes spaced across Earth to stare at quasars — brilliant beacons in the distant universe that occasionally flicker.

If civilizations on average only exist in their loud, radio - transmitting, high - technology phase for a few thousand years, they will be like flickering sparks among the stars, burning out before they can establish long - lasting beacons that can be seen across the cosmos.

This resulted in the first stars flickering on across the Universe, and the UV radiation they emitted interacted with the surrounding hydrogen gas.

With Geostorm now in cinemas, Flickering Myth's Thomas Harris caught up with actor Jim Sturgess to discuss his role in the disaster epic, working with director Dean Devlin, and the lasting appeal of 2007's Across the Universe; take a look at the interview below, or watch it on our YouTube channel, and be sure to -LSB-...]

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But Loving lives in the tiny moments that precede the court's decision and leans heavily on its actors» subtle performances: A shudder of fear passes across Mildred's face when she picks up the phone to call the attorney, and there's a flicker of triumph once she hangs up.

Lights flicker, flashlights die at inopportune moments, floors creak and shadowy figures scuttle across the background.

But I didn't know how enraptured I'd become until director Todd Haynes's camera caught just the slightest flicker of movement across a woman's face, her lips curling into the faintest hint of a smile.

• The tender / fateful slow dissolve from Captain Miller's (Tom Hanks) brooding profile to the figures of his men, moving up into danger again, strung out single file across the night horizon, against the flicker of distant guns — hommage to an honored predecessor, Lewis Milestone's A Walk in the Sun, in Saving Private Ryan...

The big peaks are small, playing as flickers of fear or hope across usually composed faces.

Print damage is still apparent, including some sections where disparities in image density from frame to frame induce a distracting flicker effect across large portions of the screen.

A shadow appeared on the awnings further up the land, gliding across each rectangle of canvas towards my table, sinking in the sag, rising again at the edge, and moving on to the next with a flicker of dislocation, then gliding onwards.

Suddenly, a connection in his brain sparked to life and set of a chain of ignitions, like a momentary flickering of stars lighting up across a darkening, dying galaxy.

Digitizations of family photos, recovered after the war, flicker in high definition across glass - faced displays.

North, across the graceful curve of the Golden Horn, flicker the bright lights of the pulsating entertainment quarter of Beyoglu.

The details and effects - the curls of cartoon smoke, the foam left in your wake as carve a path across the seas, the flickering light of torches - blend perfectly with the cartoon style.

There's always a rush of adrenaline as you string together a series of perfect jumps across platforms that flicker in and out of existence, just as there's always disappointment when you hover just a second too long and plunge to your death.

The same script — «it wasn't so much the sleeping as much as the waking up» — snakes across her partially concealed arm like a tattoo, but the subdued palette radiates hazy consciousness, flickers of violet in her hair, a single streak of watery red extended beneath her lips.

In fact, look carefully and the entire painting becomes an astonishing mind, its innumerable decisions flickering, rippling, almost breathing across its surface.

A central element of the show is Another Day with Another Sun, 2014 (in collaboration with Liam Gillick) a spotlight resembling a luminous planet, slowly navigating across the ceiling, crossing the monumental columns of HangarBicocca's space and the flickering a street of Marquees, made between 2007 and 2015, projecting long shadows that seem to outgrow the surrounding space.

Luke Butler's memory markers of cinematic finales recall flickers of light and dust across a screen, reminding you of something you've seen before, your ability to remember and, of course, to Fog a Mirror.

An antiquated printer emits reams of apparently meaningless code; a television set flickers and judders; the walls are covered in esoteric images and quasi-religious symbols; archaic speakers exchange messages across the space.

Veins of mycelium and gills of the foxfire mushrooms stretch, flicker and flash across the makeshift frames of the film.

For this work, the artist slowed down the classic Hitchcock film Psycho to play over a 24 - hour period, so that its frames flicker and shudder across the screen.

Nor had I come across Howardena Pindell (born 1943), who decoupled pointillism from image so that her millions of coloured points float free, creating an atmosphere of their own, in this case the drift of flickering light through a glade.

The FIELD of tubes will flicker in to life across the hillside as the early evening light fades.

Also known as «strobe effect,» shadow flicker consists of the continual interchange between light and shadows that are cast across property and homes near turbines as the sun rises and sets each day.

Today it is home to the Byrd Polar Research Centre at Ohio State University, where this morning I sat in a glacially air - conditioned lecture hall watching an animation of that sheet flickering rapidly back and forth across Columbus and the rest of the northern parts of the continent.

The flickering fire of a torch throws moving shadows around in underground chambers and muted sunlight seeps across the game's open world - lite hubscapes.

As twilight casts its gentle glow across the wet Maritime snow, amber candlelight flickers in the windows, making this former caretaker's cottage in Halifax look much as it did back in 1896, when Sir Charles Tupper was prime minister.

The flicker of the flame will shine through the delicate balls and omit a deep glow across the tabletop.