Sentence examples for background glow from inspiring English sources

The action may take place in 1970s Northern Ireland, but the bombed-out buildings, barricaded streets and burning buses which provide the ochre background glow evoke the spectre of John Hillcoat's The Road or even George Miller's Mad Max – a timeless wasteland of quasi-mythical, purgatorial conflict.

According to Gebhardt, using such a "whole Earth submillimeter interferometer" may actually detect the silhouette of the black hole's event horizon against the galaxy's background glow.

The crew equipped the bar's basement with inexpensive work lamps to create a background glow.

In the background, glowing silver lakes found nowhere on Earth surround purple-hazed mountains that could be hiding a Shangri-La.

It shows the Virgin Mary clad in bright blue robes with three angels above and a landscape in the background glowing with early morning light, and was discovered by Christie's experts in Paris who were asked to appraise it.

What lies in the background, glowing faintly, are the issues of medical science, the wonders it performs, the faith it inspires, and, against that, its slowly diminishing but still vast ignorance of the brain, and the mind, and the relation between the two.

As the bidding proceeds from the laptops, the numbers change on the mother Web sites, which have bluish backgrounds that glow in a slightly darkened room the size and shape of a small college lecture hall.

DJ Jio P places a gentle Tarraxinha loop under the heart-wrenching vocal, bolstering it with drums that sound like a stack of ceramic plates falling off a table and faint synth figures that swoop in the background like glowing bats.

The slightly overblown blossoms, highlighted against a velvety black background, seem to glow with an inner radiance.

In 1963, trying to track a mysterious hiss generated by their microwave antenna, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of Bell Labs discovered the cosmic microwave background, a faint glow of photons left over from the Big Bang.

Earlier this year, cosmologists realized that they could derive an independent age estimate by scrutinizing the cosmic microwave background, a primordial glow from the big bang that permeates space.