As Thomson relates, film began as an occult, slightly shady art, played in flickering lights often in the bad part of town. |
|
There was a sudden shaking and rumble of cannons and battering-rams and I saw flames flickering. |
|
She was grateful that she had found some candles, because the power had been flickering off and on. |
|
As we talked by the light of a flickering hurricane lamp, some soldiers knelt on a prayer mat nearby. |
|
Thousands of floating, flickering lights, rhythmically carried forward by the slowly moving waters of the holy river, are an unforgettable sight. |
|
One night, four men tumbled into the stall, dimly lit by a flickering oil lamp. |
|
A few sticks of shaved wood brightened the fire, casting flickering shadows onto the cave walls. |
|
His face, shadowed by the flickering torches, was harsh and strong while he exchanged words with the Majdi around him. |
|
Moments later the flight control system came online, my HUD flickering into life. |
|
It seemed as if fountains of dust were pouring from the sky, falling gently, flickering in the sunlight. |
|
Peering north, deeper into town, Brian could see one flickering stop light at a right-angle intersection. |
|
I looked to all sides and saw the same dark immenseness sprinkled with flickering stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies. |
|
Henderson was smiling gently, but since her eyes were on the flickering candles, I couldn't tell if she sensed the strained silence. |
|
I looked at the alien sitting beside me, leaning against my arm with the flickering light of the Active FlatLine screen strobing across her face. |
|
The therapist had placed a couple of flickering tea lights on top of her mid-century Scandi coffee table. |
|
Most of the circuits were in parallel, so one tube flickering caused the others in that circuit to pulse in antiphase. |
|
Flipping a lighter, Peter lit the crumpled sheet and watched the flickering ball of fire slowly turn to a cinder in his hand. |
|
Their vehemence left him with a hunted air, his eyes flickering here and there, looking for escape. |
|
Ornate sconces lined the walls, bringing the hall into flickering illumination. |
|
The two of them found themselves in a cavernous hall, dimly lit by wall sconces that emitted a flickering orange glow. |
|
|
Creoles speak of a phantom pirate ship seen at night, lit by flickering lanterns. |
|
These early studies were limited by problems such as flickering phosphenes and interactions between phosphenes. |
|
And we walked through churchyards at night, coming upon little patches of graves that were lit by flickering candles. |
|
Hunter turned off the flashlight and tried to accustom his eyes to the flickering light of the fire behind him. |
|
The only light inside came from a flickering computer screen and the winking of a fax machine. |
|
The intertwining branches cast many flickering shadows on the floor of the forest, as the ground itself was etched in Indian ink. |
|
In the flickering shadows, she glimpsed the boy curled up feebly in the corner. |
|
What inadequate lighting exists is unreliable, flickering off at the most inopportune moments. |
|
But at night when we're on the sofa he sees the inscrutable stories flickering on the box in the corner. |
|
The drapes had been closed and the room was dark except for the flickering light of the dying fire. |
|
When the trainer shouts, the group runs up the stadium's terraces, sending long shadows flickering over the steps. |
|
Jake reached out a hand and stroked her cheek gently, his eyes never leaving her face, flickering in the gentle firelight. |
|
Shadows lurked beyond the flickering firelight, blending in with the darkness. |
|
Suddenly, all flashlights began flickering before going dead, plunging the girls into darkness. |
|
One night I dined outside on exquisite chilled cucumber soup and chicken tikka, in the flickering light of flaming torches. |
|
In addition, however, it has repeatedly witnessed a sky flickering with ultraviolet flares, bursts and fast-moving streaks. |
|
Torches on the walls guttered and popped, casting a dim, flickering light over the stone walls. |
|
They were seated in a square surrounding the flickering embers, and every now and then somebody would poke the fire to keep it burning. |
|
The cracking campfire threw warm, dancing light over everything, shadows flickering at the edges. |
|
The clouds of gas swirled and mixed as their electrons changed polarity, flickering colors that moved with the solar winds of a million suns. |
|
|
Tall metal stacks that rose above the trees were crowned by flickering flames of natural gas being burned off at several pumping stations. |
|
They faced each other, the flickering light casting eerie shadows and throwing their faces into sharp relief. |
|
There, in the flickering firelight, she saw some formless shape join two waiting others. |
|
A scarlet glow became visible in the distance, flickering through the ethereal trees surrounding the two. |
|
But before he had a chance to say anything else, the screen began flickering and wavering erratically. |
|
In those usually confident and bright eyes, there was a flickering dart of fear and fury. |
|
She crouched on the soft sand in a cave, the light of a dying fire flickering across her tan fur. |
|
I went into the darkened drawing room and sat watching the flickering of light on the TV screen. |
|
I held in my hand a single black candle, it's flame flickering as my body disturbed the air around it. |
|
Amy entered the dining room with a lighted candle in one hand, the flame flickering in the darkness. |
|
Throughout December, the garden can be a desolate place, void of any horticultural flickering of life. |
|
Once the lights were dimmed, the view from the stage was pitch-black save for the pinpoints of candle flames flickering in the dark. |
|
Alicia had placed a group of advent candles on the windowsill and their flames were flickering merrily against the backdrop of the night. |
|
He shook off the feeling immediately and said quietly, the whole time carefully watching the emotions flickering across her face. |
|
Those gathered at the gates of Longannet witnessed the despair of many, and the anger flickering briefly across some faces. |
|
As they chattered a small striped viper squirmed on top of the map with tongue flickering from open fangs. |
|
At night the township looks like a blanket of glittering diamonds, blue and orange lights flickering. |
|
Aylmer had reached the roof again, his faint shadow flickering across the lights as he dashed along the edge. |
|
Her eyelids were flickering, as though she was coming out of sleep, but she had not quite yet gotten there. |
|
It was then that Calida spotted the flickering light of a fire radiating around the doorway to her right. |
|
|
Teresa began to thrash around in Alistairs arms, her eyelids still flickering. |
|
The two noticed that Kari was shifting her body, and her eyelids were flickering. |
|
She joined in a conversation, her eyes flickering in the direction of the room doors. |
|
The woman smiled, her eyes flickering in Adrianna's direction and then back at the Gypsy Princess. |
|
Within the canvas, there is a makeshift altar, the flickering of candles illuminating the glister of an icon. |
|
Nothing beats the toasty comfort of a flickering blaze in the hearth while Old Man Winter rages just beyond the walls. |
|
At very low membrane tension, small fusion pores can be trapped in a flickering metastable state. |
|
We know there was a gush of wind and tongues of flame flickering over the heads of the apostles. |
|
Trees, rocks and soil had all been uprooted, and flickering tongues of flame dotted the landscape. |
|
His head rolled a little to the side, and he found himself staring into the roaring fire, captivated by the flickering golden tongues of flame. |
|
It was not the flickering orange of torchlight, but the steady bluish-white light of the evening outside. |
|
The lights were out and the only light showing was that of a small flickering torchlight. |
|
Slowly his eyes fluttered open, but the flickering torchlight that lit his cell seemed unnaturally bright. |
|
The valves and gear shafts in his mind spun faster and faster, spark plugs flickering with anticipation. |
|
Lightning sends flickering flashes through the Hall, and the thunder reaches us as a rumble of kettledrums. |
|
Dotted along the road were many little religious shrines illuminated by flickering candles and featuring nativity scenes. |
|
She was obviously enjoying the antics of the jugglers and tumblers illuminated by the flickering light. |
|
The bikes that majestically stood on either side of the stage with their sidelights flickering welcomed the gathering. |
|
One more directed push and a fire was blazing merrily, filling the wet dark cave with flickering orange light. |
|
Dark silhouettes lurched crazily in the flickering light, while the pub doors creaked and slammed threatrically in the wind. |
|
|
Even in the foregrounds, the brushstrokes are a web of quick flickering dabs, layered, but not blended or otherwise heavily worked. |
|
The young man held up his hands to show he was unarmed, but they continued towards him, the daggers gleaming in the flickering light. |
|
And then there is the cake with its proud single candle flickering away as everyone shouts encouragement to blow the candle out. |
|
Magnus led him along the darkened wood corridor of the freight, stopping at a door with flickering yellowish light streaming out from beneath it. |
|
Beams of sunlight slanted down, flickering whenever a ripple broke the calm of the surface. |
|
In the flickering light Alex's pale hair was made flame, his alabaster skin held a rosy glow almost lifelike in its warmth. |
|
She looked over toward the living room and saw the soft flickering light from a burning fire. |
|
On the far side, lit by flickering reed torches, we were confronted by a large and completely silent crowd. |
|
Oh, to relive all those golden memories of nights spent with our eyes dazzled by flickering light, our shoes stuck to the floor. |
|
She put one hand up to the site of a flickering, ongoing headache, unrelieved by over-the-counter medications. |
|
I'd freewheeled down the hill, trees flashing past, the late summer sunlight flickering above my head. |
|
The fire was discovered when the boat's skipper went to check the generator after spotting a flickering navigation light. |
|
A dark chamber with a large oaken door at one end looks all the more malevolent in the flickering torchlight. |
|
Eagle gave a light nicker and slowed again, eyes flickering as the small train of Kathryn's gown flickered up in the breeze. |
|
Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight. |
|
The story is largely seen in flickering circles of light and specific scenes are tinted using intense bubblegum pink and steely blue. |
|
Fifty years ago only a few flickering gas lamps lighted the most traveled thoroughfares. |
|
I can only make out a shadow since everything is dark, and the room is splashed with alternating flickering colors. |
|
Candles, both large and small, tapered, pillar or votives all generate a warm, inviting, flickering light to the room. |
|
The flickering soft light I had seen through the window came from a gasolier that hung over the table. |
|
|
Their black satin pants and jackets gleam in the sun, starbursts of acrylic colour flickering down each arm. |
|
The accent, at least, is familiar, a deep Liverpudlian growl with the hint of a chuckle flickering around its edge. |
|
I feel safe, gathered in, with the song covering us like a prayer shawl and the Shabbos candles flickering on the sideboard. |
|
Ringing bells, whirring motors and flickering lights assailed the senses as one entered the darkened gallery from the street. |
|
The lights were flickering on and off, and I was seeing double. |
|
The ceiling wavered and shimmered, flickering in and out of clarity. |
|
As soon as Lana flipped on the switch, letting the weak light of a flickering lamp in the corner just barely illuminate the small room, Olivia let out a small gasp of shock. |
|
A flickering light bounced weakly on the tiled brick of the sewer walls. |
|
Sink into an Adirondack chair on your private deck overlooking the snow-capped peaks of Oregon's Cascades or cuddle up beside the flickering gas-fired stone hearth. |
|
So placed, the light sculpture's flickering luminosity seems to both recall an earlier contemplation and act as new illumination to a newer generation. |
|
The pool hall was smoky and lit only by a few flickering light bulbs. |
|
The horizon lights up all around you, flickering and pulsating, white, blue and green hues of light, constantly moving up and down, changing shape. |
|
Dusty paths lined with flickering orange lanterns led us to our final camp, a slice of dramatic Arabian luxury. |
|
For these boys, the man leans in and shines a flickering red light in their faces. |
|
We spent the evening there, in her small attic room with rain drumming a staccato tattoo on the roof above and a small fire flickering in the grate. |
|
From the flickering, uncertain light of the wall sconce, she could only see that he was tall and dark-haired, dressed in dusty but well-made traveling clothes. |
|
The steering handles jerked out of his grips, and he went into a sharp turn, then did a barrel roll, the laser whiskers flickering to life without any action on his part. |
|
That was six years ago and now, her hands flickering across the melamine table top seeking the wood beneath, she says her most recent scans have given her the all-clear. |
|
There were no bright lights flickering on and off giving you a headache. |
|
Nick's eyes burned, small flames flickering within his pupils. |
|
|
By the time she got him to the side of the road, flames were flickering. |
|
The figures of the guitarists are immobile, and so inscrutable are their veiled faces that almost the only stage movement is their hands flickering across the fretboards. |
|
Before he left, he gave me a quick wink, his eyelid barely flickering. |
|
She slowly fell back into Trev's arms, her eyelids flickering gently. |
|
I snuck out of my family's rented cottage one hot August night and wandered until I happened upon a scene lit by flickering tiki torches and glowing citronella sticks. |
|
The uneven depth of colour, as in all these works, adds a flickering dimension to the work, form flexing in and out of light like a half-grasped memory. |
|
The form of the majestic eagle grew dim, flickering blurrily, until superimposed upon it appeared the image of a noble, high-browed elf with hair of dark umber. |
|
The sounds of clinking glasses, shouting voices with the undertones of murmuring conversation, and the flickering of flame radiated from the mucky place. |
|
One of the movie's indelible motifs is the sight of viewers huddled together around a television set, eyes glazed over, happily narcotized by the flickering images. |
|
I saw a flickering light and smelt the burning smoke of candle. |
|
Recriminations will be many, various and, in some quarters, unsparing after flickering hopes of reaching the World Cup play-offs were extinguished by Belarus. |
|
One of the last things that registered on Dave's perception as his vision faded was a flickering black nimbus of energy limning the creature's form. |
|
My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights. |
|
Brazelton hooked newborn babies up to electroencephalographs and then exposed them to a flickering light source similar to a television but with no images. |
|
The random noise was something like a randomly flickering halogen lamp. |
|
The Christmas tree is decorated with coloured lights because they remind us of the stars flickering through the branches on a cold starry winter night. |
|
He was waiting, candles burning, flickering on the beautifully set table. |
|
Far into the distance curved the line of flickering gas-lamps, and outside a little walled-in house stood a solitary hansom, the driver asleep inside. |
|
She looked across at him through the dim light of the flickering oil lamp. |
|
The light coming from rectangular panels set along the ceiling and walls was bright and even, with none of the flickering or smoking so characteristic of oil or wood. |
|
|
I could just release my emotions to marijuana every single night, at home, right in front of the idiot box, and let its flickering pixels entertain me, but would I regret it? |
|
The flickering shadows and darting phantasms on the walls reminded me exactly of some sights I once encountered in a cave in Spain, filled with art. |
|
Their dreary humor seemed perfectly suited to the auditorium, with its frayed orange carpeting and comfortless chairs and flickering fluorescent lights. |
|
Everything was flickering in the gentle firelight as the fire gently died. |
|
The previous unattractive ambience was immediately replaced by dazzling lights, flickering flash lamps, heart stirring music, applause and admiring looks. |
|
Kumma was poking at the fire with a stick, his eyes flickering the blaze. |
|
At the other end of the corridor the jailer sits, leaning his chair against the wall and watching a Scottish costume drama on a small, flickering television. |
|
The blasts cudgeled the black ship, smashing it back and forth like a ball tossed between hands as the shields sputtered, flaming and flickering in tortured protest. |
|
Over a frugal meal and by flickering candlelight, they discussed matters. |
|
You leave the cliffs and promontories and blue sea gulfs behind, and corkscrew inland, past the roadside shrines with their solitary icons and flickering candles. |
|
Will watched the diamonds on the tiara glimmer in the flickering light. |
|
The star was indeed flickering, pulsating with a dying glow. |
|
Some are just attractive domes with openings to hold the lamp so that only the slight flickering can be seen while the dome protects it from wind. |
|
My flickering flashlight swung across a bank of overhead stowage. |
|
We wind through savanna, bush, forest and coconut palm groves intertwined with flickering flame trees and shining bougainvillea. |
|
He gazed at the flowers and the flickering candles, clearly moved. |
|
He came back from death, not as a spooky, Star Warsy, flickering, ghostly image but in real flesh and blood. |
|
Jerzy watched the two of them, coming to Agreement over the flickering tendrils of spellfire, and felt something twist in his gut. |
|
Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. |
|
He would say he had seen flickering lights and images of fetch candle, which, in Pembrokeshire, were portents of death. |
|
|
Even the Stalker Grike has resurfaced, with vague memories of Hester flickering through his brain. |
|
She found him lying in the longgrass of the meadow, staring at the night sky filled with the flickering brightness of ten thousand souls. |
|
It is difficult now to imagine the enchantment of a world of steady, abundant light after centuries of flickering candles and smoky gasoliers. |
|
We were contemplating Urd Werdande Skuld of 1983, which shows a vast, vaulted passageway receding into an abyss, a fire flickering at its centre. |
|
I can't even say I saw the thing. It was more of a peripheral flickering, a twitch along the nerveways, a barely perceptible awareness of something over by the parking garage. |
|
We continued northwest, the grass tall with scattered thick motts of oak and the mesquites with their flickering leaves and the yuccas in bloom with their white flowers. |
|
Leigh's romantic relationship with Finch began in 1948, and waxed and waned for several years, ultimately flickering out as her mental condition deteriorated. |
|
The TV inside the box was on, flickering shadows on the egg-crated walls. |
|
On one of the Velpin's screens, a flickering outline appeared around one of the abandoned ships littering the carbuncularly irregular outer hull of the Sepulcraft. |
|
The Pakehas cower in a room full of flickering firelight as the Maoris attack, breaching the wall, bellowing war cries, and surging terrifyingly into the house. |
|