Sentences with phrase «trick of the light»

We have heard of the old realtor trick of lighting a vanilla candle for an open house showing.

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny 8.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Trick of the light makes bird feathers blue, but not red»

This picture from Yosemite hasn't been doctored or manipulated, it's just an earth - shatteringly beautiful shot of a natural trick of light against the famous granite cliffs of America's famous national...

This picture from Yosemite hasn't been doctored or manipulated, it's just an earth - shatteringly beautiful shot of a natural trick of light against the famous granite cliffs of America's famous national park.

That early interest in tricks of light led Dionne to begin wielding it as a tool during graduate school at Caltech and then her postdoc at UC Berkeley.

TRICK OF THE LIGHT Einstein showed that spacetime warps around massive bodies and makes light take different paths, as shown in this stellar smile in which a red galaxy distorts the light from a more distant blue galaxy.

The problem was that no one knew enough about the system to distinguish real geometry from tricks of light — multiple different proposed models could explain the arms seen in scattered light equally well, but differed in their assumptions of the underlying system architecture.

In Monet's paintings of foggy London, tricks of light hide most of the buildings and we can recognize the city only from a few well - kown silhouettes: shapes and colors are altered and details are missing.

Davies slinks his camera forward, pushing in on her face, until — through some almost imperceptible trick of the light — Bell has transformed, before our very eyes, into Cynthia Nixon.

Although the work plays with theatricality, it is in fact quite structural - a simple physics trick of light projected onto a right angle, forcing the light into two focal planes, one on the wall and one on the floor.

The FaceTime selfie camera is 5 megapixels and uses a neat new trick of lighting up the whole iPhone screen as a high - intensity flash for low - light selfies.

But I thought it was just a trick of the light or something.

Mantel is playing by herself in the backyard when something causes her to look up, some trick of the light.

But all it takes is a whisper, a change in the wind, a trick of the light, for the sleeping coal to flare up and sons and daughters come running, scattering fellowships, law school, the Army, the arts, their engagements, brimming with glorious news for their families: «I'm begging!

For example, tricks of light might be making it seem like the universe's expansion is accelerating, when in fact it isn't.

These tricks of the light allow the team to keep track of newly made proteins over time and space.

Launched in 1996, the orbiter found intriguing hints of running water and confirmed that the famous «Face of Mars» was a trick of the light.

The arms may mark planets hidden by the dust — just like the buildings of London in Monet's mysterious fog — or may just be a trick of light?

However Lindeburg still wasn't convinced that he hadn't imagined it or seen a trick of the light...

McAvoy looks to be wearing a fitted geometric or floral pattern shirt, snug brown kick - flare pants and brown leather, possibly two - tone (though it could be a trick of the light) shoes.

She is the author of A Trick of Light (2001) and The Season of Lost Children (2011).

Our top mystery pick for September is Louise Penny's latest Chief Inspector Gamache thriller, A Trick of the Light.

The hypnotically persuasive narrator of A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger is similarly invisible, both to readers and to teenage Mike.

Read our 7 Questions interview with Louise Penny for more on A Trick of the Light, Quebec and CI Gamache.

September's mystery top pick is A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny.

Derek first supposed it was a trick of the light, but as the slipstream from the plane passed across it, the western bank seemed to expand, as though it had suddenly turned to gas.

No, it was not a trick of the light; a tall figure in a ragged black coat and a ruined old hat was walking down the darkening hillside; and he was heading toward the house.

A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (reviewed 09/19/11).

He knew it was just a trick of light, that the ancient glass makers added copper oxide to make the green, cobalt to make the blue, and real gold to make the red.

No longer can players simply look away from the television or hide behind a piece of furniture when venturing forward into the haunted house — instead, every tiny little detail, trick of the light and monstrous sighting will be unable to be avoided, front and centre in view.

«Everything you see is a trick of the light.»

Kim suggests that the scene as first viewed by the artist was also an apparition, a trick of the light.

Adam Henry's work addresses the basic logic of painting, working with the tricks of light to create unique compositions.

Upon closer inspection, though, that appeared to be a trick of the light.

This is literally a trick of the light.