Sentences with phrase «in blinding sunlight»

The thick green curtain around the road closed in again, and we advanced with great difficulty until first the coffee plantations and then the church and red roofs of the Yambuku mission appeared, like mirages, in the blinding sunlight.

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When winter is at last over we'd come peeping out our doors, squinting in the sunlight, blinded by our pale reflections and inhaling the scents of new life.

Luckily, exposing your child to sunlight first thing in the morning — whether by opening the blinds as soon as your baby wakes up or taking him or her on an a.m. walk in the stroller — can reset your child's internal clock.

I live in a snowy state — 15 minutes from a ski resort, in fact — but I work at home, and position my desk where I can open the blinds and get sunlight through the windows, on sunny days during the winter.

In the sunlight, even though it's mattefied, it's still blinding.

This is the chair I sit in every day to get ready and it gets some refreshing sunlight from the window when the blinds are up.

In sunlight, it's a very pale but absolutely blinding shimmer; in lower light conditions, it's a dark yellow or golIn sunlight, it's a very pale but absolutely blinding shimmer; in lower light conditions, it's a dark yellow or golin lower light conditions, it's a dark yellow or gold.

Set at the turn of the previous century in the early days of oil exploration, the film shows grimy prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) climbing from dark shafts into the blinding desert sunlight.

Deakins» pristine camera catches the motes of dust dancing in a beam of sunlight coming through a broken blind, before the entire wall of the house is staved in by an armored vehicle from which FBI agents pour out.

Let's not forget the glare from the sun often results in blinds being closed and the use of artificial light whereas installation of daylight blinds can effectively channel the sunlight to the ceiling where it does not cause visual disturbance.

The first thing that catches your eye, of course, is the white leather that covers the seats and parts of the dash; it's some pretty blinding stuff, and I'd probably avoid it because a) it looks way too pretty for my liking and more importantly, b) white leather scuffs, it absorbs dye from your wet jeans and it's blindingly reflective in direct sunlight.

In the bright sunlight, the rings on her fingers nearly blind me.

Larvae avoid sunlight and are blind, feeding on organic material in your carpet, bed, or furniture.

A pioneer in the Southern California Light and Space movement, Turrell began using light as a sculptural medium in 1966, painting the windows of his studio in Santa Monica to seal off the natural light and experimenting with sunlight projected through shades and blinds.

So, if you have two identical glass greenhouses with thermally isolated mercury thermometers at equilibrium in the sunlight [One with Air at Press =P, and the 2nd w / CO2 at Press =P], and you close the blinds — you will see the thermometer in the CO2 greenhouse retain its temperature longer — not because of any «global warming» type effect, but simply because Air conducts heat to the walls of the greenhouse better than Air does.

So, if you have two identical glass greenhouses with thermally isolated mercury thermometers at equilibrium in the sunlight [One with Air at Press =P, and the 2nd w / CO2 at Press =P], and you close the blinds — you will see the thermometer in the CO2 greenhouse retain its temperature longer — not because of any «global warming» type effect, but simply because Air conducts heat to the walls of the greenhouse better than CO2 does.

At more than 1,200 nits, the Note 8 is nearly blinding in a dark room, but that makes it eminently readable in direct sunlight.

If you have trouble getting up in morning, try opening your blinds to let the sunlight in.

Whatever style you go for, bamboo blinds can pull together a room's earth tones into one elegantly cohesive package, while allowing natural sunlight to filter in.

You can also control blinds with this system, allowing sunlight in for your plants and helping to warm the home during the winter.

I am sure we could take down the blinds but $ $ are an issue, and I don't know what would be affordable, attractive and block sunlight, yes in Az in summer we NEED to block light or rooms turn into ovens.

• Conservatory — with a high proportion of glass this popular living space will be bathed in full sunlight, so having the option to pull one or two blinds down to regulate the brightness is a boon.

In general, blinds can serve the purpose of providing privacy to you and your family, and they can also allow you to easily control the amount of sunlight that enters the space.

Vertical blinds feature vertical slats that can allow sunlight to seep in slightly even when the blinds are fully closed.

I first fell in love with our house because of the sunlight came through the main living area, but living with all this light we needed some new blinds, curtains weren't going to cut it anymore.

These synthetic materials give the slats in faux wood blinds greater durability than natural wood, which can warp, fade, or crack given too much sunlight or moisture.

To allow the morning sunlight to stream in, the owners have used an opaque glazing film on the lower window panes in the bathroom, instead of blinds.

The attractive vertical stripe blind design diffuses bright sunlight in summer, and keeps that airy beach - like sensation in winter in a cool, white interior.