Sentence examples for dim spotlight from inspiring English sources

Then she slipped the flashlight into a hanging loop of string and a dim spotlight fell on her pillow.

Then Nicholas Hytner, director of the play and the theatre, appeared in a dim spotlight and a drizzle of water - like a schoolboy forced to play an old sage in an Alan Bennett sketch - to explain that a fire in the lighting rig had set off the sprinklers; all the members of the cast had been on the stage, mopping away with their towels.

And there's just one word to describe the sequence in which the locker room lights dim, spotlighted players croon the opening lines of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" and then the walls part to reveal the arena stage on which the team will finish the number, complete with stage pyrotechnics and a climactic split-screen image of a silhouetted iPod dancing: genius.

Many millions of women have found themselves in similar exchanges over the past few decades -- albeit in front of a much dimmer spotlight.

Two dimmed spotlights provided illumination on the floor of the enclosed and open arms of approximately 5 lux.

Saying the traditional roll call of states has become too long and dull to sustain an evening of prime time television, officials planning the Republican National Convention said yesterday that they intended to dim the spotlight on the state-by-state presidential nominating process by spreading the tally over three nights.

Among musicals featuring showbiz folk, only Cabaret so often dims the spotlight of optimism.

But it also meant that the 89th victory, which was celebrated with John Wooden's grandson in attendance and punctuated by a phone call from President Obama, actually dimmed the spotlight on the players.

One cross-border merger is hard enough: two look like recklessness especially given France's prickliness over both job cuts and foreign raiders.Alcan's boss, Jacques Bougie, evidently did not like Alcoa dimming his spotlight.

The all-night session was a horrible affair and by the time the light of dawn began to dim the spotlights, a great many delegates had gone back to their hotels or escaped to the neighboring speakeasies.

When Giuliani was done, the convention hall dimmed and spotlights roved over the delegates in the sports arena and Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl belted out from the loudspeakers.