Sentence examples for brink light from inspiring English sources

With Europe in chaos, Wall Street having another conniption, and global capitalism again on the brink, light relief is badly needed.

By John Cassidy November 9, 2011 With Europe in chaos, Wall Street having another conniption, and global capitalism again on the brink, light relief is badly needed.

"We're on the brink of a new lighting revolution," says Jerry Simmons, head of the solid-state lighting programme at America's Sandia National Laboratory.LEDs have become popular because they have numerous advantages over conventional light bulbs.

The Miracle of St. Anthony (Gotham, $25) is in the tradition of A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein and Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger.

It's hard to imagine that during Deloitte's day-to-day audits it didn't stumble across the practices that have recently come to light and brought Adelphia to the brink of bankruptcy.

Jennings employs the "year in the life of a team" genre, popularized by David Halberstam's "Breaks of the Game" (1981), John Feinstein's "Season on the Brink" (1986) and Buzz Bissinger's "Friday Night Lights" (1990).

The appointment was in the works well before November, when it first came to light that the Museum of Contemporary Art was on the brink of financial collapse.

But it is hard not to conclude that the Parisians have had the better deal: the paintings on display reveal all the subtle sophistication of Fra Angelico's art, lively survivors of a spiritual age on the brink of discovery".Fra Angelico and the Masters of Light" is at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris until January 16th.

The images' artificiality — overly elaborate lighting and strange juxtapositions — are on the brink on the absurd, but stop just short, Andy Grunberg wrote in The Times.

Though Mr. Schiller's program treats the case as nothing but cold, the documentary suggests that, in the stirring phrase, "new evidence has come to light," and its central questions seem perpetually on the brink of being answered.

Dozens of companies on the brink of similar clean-energy breakthroughs are only waiting for the green light from Washington.