Refracted

Its oblique rays refracted from the floating frost particles till the air was filled with glittering jewel-dust -- resplendent, blazing, flashing light and fire, but cold as outer space. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At another time it might have been a pretty journey, the hills just turning the colors of pumpkin and hay and pomegranate and the skies depthless and clear, but now everywhere one looked most of the trees had been felled for fuel and there was only a hazy, oppressive brightness refracted from the shorn hillsides. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The sunset fires, refracted from the cloud-driftage of the autumn sky, bathed the canyon with crimson, in which ruddy-limbed mandronos and wine-wooded manzanitas burned and smoldered. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the wall their twined shadows waltzed, one large and one small, four-square skirts, one dipping and swaying, one stationary and punched through with arcane symbols that wrote themselves on the walls in refracted light. ❋ Deep_bluze (2004)

The sun's rays were refracted from the pavement and buildings -- the stoppage of the public fountains -- the bad quality of the food, and scarcity even of that, produced a state of suffering, which was aggravated by the scourge of disease; while the garrison arrogated every superfluity to themselves, adding by waste and riot to the necessary evils of the time. ❋ Unknown (1826)

The automobile headlights theory was again advanced, as was the idea of refracted starlight and fox fire, which is a phosphorescent glow emitted by certain fungi on rotting wood. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The second region or stratum of air terminates I suppose where the twilight ceases to be refracted, that is, where the air is 3000 times rarer than at the surface of the earth; and where it seems probable that the common air ends, and is surrounded by an atmosphere of inflammable gas tenfold rarer than itself. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

The light "refracted" by the "material" of the mirror distorts the fluting of the pilaster seen behind. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"The unapproachable light of God in himself" is 'refracted' through the human face of Christ upon us. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. Clinton's popularity, in other words, was a kind of refracted signal of a deeper anti-Americanism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now, what happens is, the sunlight is filtered through the earth's atmosphere, casting a reddish hue on the moon, meaning that the blue light, the blue light of the sunlight is kind of refracted, or taken or filtered from that sunlight. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And I think it also had to do with something of the drug culture, that this was a kind of refracted and drugged way of looking at things. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If ideology is about interests, then what conservative politicians espouse can only be called ideological Christianity: Christianity that is not based upon theological faith, but is instead refracted and reshaped to fit the political interests of conservative politicians and those whose interests they have shown themselves to represent first and foremost, in this case the rich and the super-rich, whose largesse they enjoy and endlessly strive to serve. ❋ Obery M. Hendricks (2011)

It's exceptional value, with tickets at £12 and £6 standing, plus free activities including the lifesize installation and 3D film Tango de Soledad by Billy Cowie, as well as Angela Woodhouse and Caroline Broadhead's Sighted, in which dancer Stine Nilsen's movements are refracted in the mirror and light. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The work's grounded, rolling sculptural style is very much Maliphant's, but other Nijinsky images are refracted through the choreography. ❋ Judith Mackrell (2010)

Mr. Douglas-Fairhurst's trick, alternatively, is to take the various stages of Dickens's pre-authorial life "lost child," clerk, parliamentary reporter and show how he projected them into his books, creating a series of "refracted self-images" that give nearly everything he wrote an ominous personal significance. ❋ D.J. Taylor (2011)

Find A Way is relatively sane, but in its jaunty, refracted, tropical-electro way, it still sounds fussy and overworked. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Because meaning is made and remade in the present tense, our backward glances are now necessarily refracted through the US defeat in Viet Nam, the steady decline of empire, the hollowing out of the economy through militarism, the destruction of our political system, the environmental catastrophe that capitalism wrought, the terror attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent invasions and occupations and wars that continue as defining features of our national life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They are humans, not refracted images of some insane feminine myth. ❋ Unknown (2010)