Sentence examples similar to bulb darkness from inspiring English sources

(McGinley is even more hyperactive than usual; perhaps he was afraid he couldn't be seen in all the 40-watt-bulb darkness. The film is lighted like the lobby of an Ian Schrager-Philippe Starck hotel, with so much shadow that it deserves an above-the-title credit.) That doesn't stop Carter, because he has to make up for having disappeared from his brother's life for five years.

The electric light bulb has made darkness optional, eliminating the enforced idleness that used to begin at sunset.

Turning on portable generators, they sit in the gathering darkness, holding lighted bulbs.

Early this morning only a bright coin of light from a bulb above a doorway pocked the darkness enveloping him in a narrow lane in central Baghdad.

As darkness gathers, small light bulbs, naked or with red shades, cast theatrical shadows on crowds that come and go, carrying cooked foods away or sitting at picnic and folding tables on stools or wobbly chairs.

Mukund Upadhyaya, the deputy commissioner of police, said the gunmen escaped into the darkness after destroying light bulbs and climbing down the rear wall of the fort, the Indian wire service said.

The hallways were lit by incandescent bulbs, so if a tenant had a light burn out in his apartment, they would steal the bulb from the hallway, leaving it in darkness.

The effect is like looking at a flickering light bulb, and finding yourself unable to distinguish the darkness from the split seconds of illumination.

The cabin's lone light bulb had burned out, leaving the woman in darkness.

Mr. Yoshiyuki's photographic activity was undetected because of the darkness; the flash of the infrared bulbs has been likened to the lights of a passing car.

There are small hanging light bulbs, but the audience sits mostly bathed in darkness, in a state that echoes that of Mr. Rooney, the blind man who is one of the main characters.