In Britain, Mr. Plensa's light-beam piece, "Blake in Gateshead," the Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art's only permanent art work, was commissioned in 1996. ❋ Emma Crichton-Miller (2011)
We have ratings here; we have to know these things, Chewbacca-like red-eyed hill guerillas lurking as ghosts, their light-beam eyes not unlike those of laser-sighted weapons, and the filtering action of Boonmee's kidney, which to my feeble mind created a gritty, valiant metaphor for the healing process undergone by a nation poisoned by war. ❋ Michael Vazquez (2010)
This is despite (as The Onion famously observed) Radio Shack's disturbingly awkward yet annoyingly glommy sales clerks, and the fact that you can't walk into a store without setting off a light-beam buzzer and feeling as though you've just stumbled into the chess team's basement during a whipit bender. ❋ Unknown (2007)
That comment is from from a man who changed the world by imagining what it would be like to ride a light-beam (I've always had this image of him waving a cowbay hat and yelling, "Yee haa!!"). ❋ Unknown (2004)
As I swept the light-beam around, it came to rest on a large thylacine, standing side on some six to seven metres distant. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
He leaned back against the soft turf, his hands behind his head, waiting for his partner to get through the light-beam obstacle. ❋ SUSAN WRIGHT (1998)
The Americans had asked him if he'd seen what the light-beam had hit. ❋ Clancy, Tom, 1947- (1988)
As Kethry chanted, the light-beam increased in strength and brightness. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1988)
Iceland spar, which has been achromatised -- that is, clear, devoid of colour -- and is therefore capable of transmitting light without showing any prismatic effect, or allowing the least trace of any except the clear light-beam to pass through. ❋ John Mastin (N/A)
In order to realize what happens to the light in passing through the prism, let us remember that it is a characteristic of an ordinary light-beam to direct itself through space in a straight line if not interfered with, and to illuminate equally any cross-section of the area it fills. ❋ Ernst Lehrs (N/A)
Now, it is a common feature of all these experiments that by necessity they are based on an arrangement whereby a light-beam can be made to appear and disappear alternately. ❋ Ernst Lehrs (N/A)
Taking the last-named fact first, we shall make use of the following comparison to help us realize how little we are justified in drawing from observations of the front speed of a light-beam any conclusions concerning the kinematic conditions prevailing in the interior of the beam itself. ❋ Ernst Lehrs (N/A)
We note again that both processes occupy a considerable part of the space originally outside the boundaries of the light-area - that is, at the violet end the part towards which the light-beam is deflected, and at the red end the part from which it turns away. ❋ Ernst Lehrs (N/A)
Quite suddenly came a soft sussuration overhead, a light-beam lanced down, pinning us there. ❋ Lee Tarbell (N/A)
It is not necessary to explain here what refraction is, for everyone will be familiar with the refractive property of a light-beam when passing through a medium denser than atmospheric air. ❋ John Mastin (N/A)
We have also seen that if an _equal_ light-beam becomes obstructed in its passage by some substance which is denser than atmospheric air, it will become altered in its direction by refraction or reflection, and polarised, each side or pole having different properties. ❋ John Mastin (N/A)
