Sentences with phrase «under the streetlight»

Some are blind, feral, have health problems, some street cats contract FIV or Felv in those lonely days and fearful nights under the streetlights as they struggle to find enough food to get them through another day, through absolutely no fault of their own.

Passing feel - good laws is akin to the old joke about the tavern drunk who was looking for his lost keys under the streetlight, rather than down the block where he actually lost them — because, he said, «the light was better.»

The drunk says that he lost his keys, and they both start looking under the streetlight together.

The truth was that the murder occurred on the other side of the city, that the police knew who committed the crime, that the man under the streetlight was waiting for a date to show up and that the mysterious green car belonged to someone who came home for lunch every day.

In an old joke, a policeman sees a drunk searching for something under a streetlight and asks what he has lost.

In the winter he played hockey on frozen ponds all day Saturday, even skating home for lunch, then played street hockey after dark under the streetlights.

When I see a tree like this, it reminds me of those nights when it's almost mild out, the snow is falling so softly and so slowly down and illiminated under the streetlights that the flakes look suspended.

Current conditions call to mind the parable of the drunken man crawling under the streetlight while searching for his keys.

Amid the smoke and chaos of that night she is glimpsed, standing under a streetlight, by a man who was dining in the same room - a man who is so overwhelmed by the sight of her that he rebuilds his life around a single goal: to marry Etna Bliss.

I was simply amazed as I watched an older gentleman as he was slowing walking down the street in a wet overcoat that was glistening under the streetlights as the smoke from the cigarette he was smoking wafted up into the air behind him as he continued on his way.

Take it from us; it turns out hanging around under streetlights like a weirdo is a great way to alleviate writer's block.

«But on the night of the opening, there he was, standing silent and alone under the streetlight on the northwest corner of Madison and 75th Street.

In the North Gallery two new colour works by Jeff Wall completed during the past year will be presented: Monologue, a night scene in which three men engage in discussion under a streetlight, and Summer Afternoons, a diptych showing a young man and woman, both naked, in a sun - filled apartment.

The 2007 photo of students in Guinea doing their homework under streetlights has been a visual mantra here to drive home this issue.

While the Note 8 would judge some skin tones to be too bluish under streetlights, the Pixel made our test model look more human.

Gavin, your response to my question is like the drunk man looking for his keys under the streetlight.

More insects, including many carnivores and scavengers, hang out under streetlights than between them, even during the day.

Then we pulled over under a streetlight and parked, hoping it wasn't true, but knowing that our race was over.

Under the streetlights it looks so beautiful: like fairy silver, thinks Constance.

Similar to (but much more complicated than) how iPhones adjust their color temperature in Night Shift, True Tone will try to ensure that your screen's color temperature looks accurate irrespective of whether you're looking at it under a streetlight, sunlight or, well, candlelight.