Sentence examples for a prism from from inspiring English sources

Smithson seemed to glimpse the entire state through a prism: "From the shiny chrome diners to glass windows of shopping centers, a sense of the crystalline prevails".

As a genre, the television crime drama has enjoyed a long and successful career, routinely serving as a prism from which to observe the local, national and even transnational issues that are prevalent in society.

A prism made from the material has a negative refractive index: that is, it bends light in the direction opposite the one in which ordinary materials bend it.

Anything Microsoft does is looked at through a prism cut from the glass of the company that Gates built.

The sound-and-vision experience of the latest London show included an inflatable pig parading through the crowd, Battersea Power Station chimneys extending above the stage, a prism created from lasers and a closing firework display.

In our wide-field lensfree imaging platform, the transgenic samples are excited using a prism interface from the side, where the pump light is rejected through total internal reflection occurring at the bottom facet of the substrate.

Ms. Ilyin, a first-time author who has taught courses in American mythic images at Cooper Union and Yale, has constructed a kind of blond memoir, in which she recounts her life through a peroxide prism, from highlights to double process, from cultural studies student to Arm-Piece Blonde (her phrase, meaning a Trophy Blonde with tenure).

American conservatives see the Abu Ghraib photographs through a different prism from the rest of the world.

To her, it didn't seem like disagreement, but "more like turning a prism — to see something from another point of view".

And he combined this precision with sharp, almost military tailoring, or prints that suggested shards of light exploding from a prism.

The firestorm made McIlroy aware that his decision might be seen differently by those viewing it from a prism that does not reflect his own experience of growing up in a more peaceful Northern Ireland.