Daylight falls from devices on the roof called light monitors, and angular ceiling areas, called "crinkles," serve to deflect the daylight smoothly throughout a room.
A fierce daylight falls on the scene, picking out each rounded cobble – a light that shows up the oddness of the candle-lamp.
Very often, however, embassies and spy agencies will wish to keep things hushed up for exactly the same sort of reasons that affect less exotic institutions – concealing cock-ups, and avoiding daylight falling on things that ought not be happening at all.
With just 1.5 hours of daylight a day falling on Philae in its shadowed position, hopes for recharging its batteries were dim.
You may need to adjust for the hours of daylight that fall on the hose.
The effect is as if daylight were falling through the window, lighting the end of the table.
As the nineteenth-century Scottish economist John Rae put it, "The prospects of future good, which future years may hold on us, seem at such a moment dull and dubious, and are apt to be slighted, for objects on which the daylight is falling strongly, and showing us in all their freshness just within our grasp".
He distinguished among lux (daylight, which falls alike "on the evil and the good," according to Matthew), lumen (the consecrated light that has entered sanctuaries), and illumination (of the soul, realizing a condition described in Ephesians: "Now you are light in the Lord, walk as children of light").
The long house with the mossy roof and window after window in two rows was set far back from the road, separating the woods from a large square meadow sloping down into the countryside; my rooms were on the meadow side and looked out onto a few minutes a day of yellow sunlight, glowing off of the ice crusts on the grass, and a few other hours, not many, of gray daylight or falling snow.
At this stage it was still daylight, although dusk would soon fall.
