Sentence examples for beacon it is from inspiring English sources

Whereas much of the rest of the world once looked to the United States as a beacon, it is argued, non-Americans are now turning away.

When acting as the strong optical beacon, it is possible to use this light source to characterize the space-to-ground optical channel and to commission the fine-pointing mechanism [42].

I had given up on understanding William Carlos Williams's text, so it was a revelation when words (obviously apt in this musical context) came through like a beacon: "It is a principle of music to repeat the theme.

Newsnight is not the broadcasting beacon it was, its fortunes already in decline before its failings over the Jimmy Savile scandal and the subsequent disastrous McAlpine report two years ago, which plunged the BBC into crisis and almost led to Newsnight being axed.

In many ways, Pina was such a powerful inspiration, such a beacon, it's like we are all her children.

When Paul Newman made the 1994 film "Nobody's Fool" in Beacon, it was branded, as the movie's publicity put it, "a town where nothing ever happens".

You will head out of the city into the fabulous Surrey and Sussex countryside and once you have conquered the mighty Ditchling Beacon, it's downhill to the finish line on Brighton seafront.

"I Can't Make You Love Me" was presented as the emotional heart of the evening, and I'm sure that, for many people at the Beacon, it was.

"But we had to come up when the battery went on the beacon". It's fair to say that deep sea shipwreck exploration is eye-wateringly expensive.

While I can't imagine a real world use case for this (maybe you really need to run a copy of Mavis Beacon?) it's a great theoretical exercise.

Ultimately, any sass, sentiment and personality are obliterated in the noisy chaos of the climax, which is a grayish brown blur of flying spaceship parts, whirling turtle shells and shouts of "the beacon!" It's more cacophonous than cinematic and loses the quirky charm of the cartoon in the avalanche of computer-generated violence.