Sentences with phrase «moment of dawn»

And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

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Advances in lexicography and archaeology have put us in a place to know more about the ancient world than it knew about itself As an exegete I know no higher moment than the dawn of truth rising from the meticulous application of linguistic and other historical study.

Then it dawned on me in one of those moments of clarity that I'm blessed with about once or twice a year, that if this cheese + tortilla situation is what I want on most days around 11:30 am, then it is probably also what you want too.

In those moments, you appreciate the roles and performances of the absentees more but also, surely, there must be a dawning realization that a player of the calibre of the one missing is not going to be happy with a «stand in» role.

I am stealing a few moments in the peace of the dawn, watching their eyelids flutter, one on either side of me, cozy in the nest.

The first week of November 2011 has been a tipping point; the moment when it belatedly dawned on pundits and politicians alike that the euro crisis at heart is political — and that if it's politics versus the markets, then politics is losing hands down for now.

We can't rule it out, he said, staring at Cameron in a moment where the gravity of the situation dawned on the Prime Minister.

It was a perfect May dawn, that moment 20 years ago when the scale of New Labour's victory became settled beyond dispute.

Maybe the rules are different for galaxies, where the typical span of a single rotation brackets the time from the dawn of the dinosaurs to the moment you're reading this page.

In the bleak hour before dawn in southeastern Madagascar, biologist Brian Fisher and a team of five field assistants stand outside a grand, but at this moment lifeless, French colonial railroad station.

Charge captures a pivotal moment in motor sport history - the dawn of the zero - emissions racing era on June 12th 2009, the world's first zero - emissions motorcycle grand prix.

It's telling that the film is rooted in the early -»60s gray zone — a moment lodged between the conservatism of the»50s and the dawn of a new world — because it marks one of the most impressive debuts of a director since Tom Ford made «A Single Man.»

In addition, the skillful use of compounded red herrings and misdirection (yes there's that term again) ensure that when the moment of truth comes, it dawns on us suddenly that Leterrier's been telling us what it will be the whole time.

Speaking of the end, it wasn't until the final moments of the film that it dawned on me what a «strong female character» Michelle is.

Some saw the moment as a bellwether signaling a new dawn for the group, that they were developing a growing acceptance for the films that would start coming at them around this time of creative invigoration in the cinema.

It comes at the end of a long night, and it's the one most keenly anticipated by the producers themselves who now have their moment of glory as the people for whom this award represents years of agonising work and instances of what Jerry Maguire called the «up - at - dawn pride - swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about».

4 - 5) The dawn of a new year generally marks the moment when most people pause to take stock of their lives before making an annual list of self - improvement resolutions.

As the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, the young couple is drawn into George and Martha's toxic games, until the evening reaches its climax in a moment of devastating truth - telling.

Such is the price of scientific inquiry, I recalled, the moment it dawned on me that I was the only one that day driving a $ 401,925 Rolls through the decaying streets of Petersburg, Virginia, looking for something to eat.

Cruising along Del Mar Heights, just north of San Diego, it slowly dawns on me just how significant this moment is.

Maybe if you're a native speaker, you're not aware of all the echoes of the words that share a common root, but you know, it really struck me that [Arabic has] a word for «child» that relates to things like «dawn» and «soft clay» but also «one that arrives at an inopportune moment,»» she laughed.

The eventual result was the inflation theory, which holds that a fraction of a moment after the dawn of creation, the universe underwent a sudden dramatic expansion.

My most memorable moment is the 5 am dawn patrol session when there were only 5 of us in the water watching the sun come up and catching some perfectly peaceful waves.

Savour a moment of pure magic, dawn.

Bailey Cove (2007), for example, is the name of a campground on Lake Shasta near the artist's hometown of Redding, California; in Wilson's abstract rendition of the area, he stacks overlapped squares of olive green, musty yellow, and slate gray near the bottom of the canvas, evoking a moment at dusk or dawn.

Say we agree, generously, that 20 artists genuinely mattered in late 19th - century France at the dawn of modernism, one of the truly great moments of art history.

Taking its cue (and deriving its name) from l'heure bleue, that fleeting moment of atmospheric ambivalence at dawn and dusk when daylight has not yet begun (or has just finished) drawing a world of legibility and clear distinction, Nathaniel Robinson's New York solo debut, «Civil Twilight,» operated within a territory of formal, conceptual, and material indeterminacy.

This is a special moment in U.S. history, the dawn of a new energy - driven reality that could sustain and grow American prosperity here at home and America's influence in the world.

You quote: (your bold) «< Another way to think of this reduction is to realize that half of Earth's surface (the night side) is in the dark and thus receiving no solar energy at a given moment, while areas near the edges of the planet (near the poles and around dusk and dawn) are receiving reduced amounts of energy per unit area.

Another way to think of this reduction is to realize that half of Earth's surface (the night side) is in the dark and thus receiving no solar energy at a given moment, while areas near the edges of the planet (near the poles and around dusk and dawn) are receiving reduced amounts of energy per unit area.»

But they go mental from the moment dawn breaks (which wasn't so much of a problem when dawn was post 6.30 am, but now it's creeping towards 6 am...) pwarking insistently to be let out of their cage.