Sentences with phrase «light falling upon»

The degree of opacity of the glass may even be made to alter automatically in accordance with the intensity of the light falling upon it.

How a material affects light falling upon it is dictated in part by its chemical composition, but its internal structure can have an even stronger influence.

One of the prime explanations for this low reflectivity — an abundance of minerals including the element iron, which strongly absorb certain wavelengths of light falling upon them — doesn't fit in this instance, researchers say.

And then, for a few seconds, light falls upon them and they are reveled to their partner, whose response is concealed by the cloak of darkness.

Not exact matches

In a highly metaphorical and powerful statement he declared: «It is now excruciatingly clear that Christ can not be a light that lights every man coming into the world, if he is not also the light that falls upon the world into which every man comes.

Whenever we come upon these matters in secular writers, let that admirable light of truth shining in them teach us that the mind of man, though fallen and perverted from its wholeness, is nevertheless clothed and ornamented with God's excellent gifts.18

28 Upon what went on in his mind as the end approached one ray of light is permitted to fall: the prayer, «If it is possible, let this cup pass me by.

The disciples, struck with fear and illuminated with the sudden stream of light; looked at one another and fell face downwards upon the ground, worshipping thee the Master of all.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

The bright light of future falls upon the victims when they begin to see the prospects of their identity and difference being recognized and affirmed.

This morning, as I gazed upon the light, fluffy snow that was once again falling from the sky (can you tell that I'm so over winter now?)

And it is this heart of the company's DNA that Nathalie Colin, Creative Director, has drawn upon for the inspiration behind the Fall / Winter 2014/15 collection, «Facets of Light» (IN STORE NOW!)

It'd be even better if the RS3 had any real steering feel, but while the rack is consistent in its responses, it can feel overly light at times and you tend to fall back upon trusting the front tyres will grip on turn - in, rather than being able to feel it.

A shaped canvas, seemingly folded over a corner of another, captures the fall of light upon the wall.

For the 2016 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach Ingleby Gallery presented a dedicated exhibition of work by David Austen including significant new bodies of work including Silence Beach; The light that fell upon us burned, night flowers and Nakeds.

«The figures in the landscape serve as carriers and reflectors of the light that falls upon them.

Carrie Hott's video installation, Part One: To Cover (2014), draws upon the artist's extensive investigations into ways humans have historically experienced and conceptualized darkness and produced light, touching on subjects from blackouts and solitary confinement to deep - ocean whale falls.

The other 19th century painting here is Newcastle upon Tyne from the East, 1898, by Neils Møller Lund, a portrait of the city from a specific vantage point, generalised by the impressionistic rendering, yet by no means strictly representing light as it falls on the retina.

Objection # 1: Visual and near - visual radiation is merely «light» which lacks the «quality» or «oomph» to impart warmth to objects upon which it happens to fall.

In their efforts to reduce costs and maintain margins in the light of falling prices, some legal publishers have hit upon the twin ideas of outsourcing and offshoring.

Upon opening the door and feeling for a light switch, she lost her balance and fell down the stairs.