The Dying Earth series included four books set far in the future, when "the sun is feeble and red" and "in the place of the old peoples a few thousand strange souls live".
The feeble yellow-near-red band in the range of 577 to 600 nm was assigned to the 5D4 → 7F4 transition.
Ustaoset, 12 minutes farther along, looked otherworldly, with an austere scattering of feeble shrubs and fox-red huts on barren snowy mounds.
The marble floors feel harsh, the frosted sconces cast a feeble light, and the huge red leather banquettes, which evoke a 1940's cocktail lounge, isolate tables from each other so completely that even the most misanthropic may long for a little more fellow-feeling.
Nor do they deal in any way adequately with the government's feeble attempts to slow its red-hot domestic economy, which stand in contrast to the aggressive way in which it recently flexed its new global muscles by bullying Japan.For a real insider's look at life in modern China, readers should turn instead to the work of Rachel DeWoskin, who spent five years in Beijing.
But Proxima Centauri, a cold star categorized as a "red dwarf," is relatively faint and feeble, about one-tenth the size of the Sun and 500 times less bright.
But compare this feeble political contrast being drawn to the red-meat attacks on the president over domestic policies, such as government spending or healthcare, which solicit almost daily Republicans beatings.
A notoriously feeble climber, Cipollini does not have a bicycle with the red polka dots that denote the king of the mountains.
So yeah, Month One: I had nightly glasses of red wine to dull my rage at my own feeble delusional kind, and avoided the collective liberal "mourning conversation".
For a dorky teen-ager who carried a portable Onkyo radio, wore wide, red laces in his black Adidas sneakers, and wrote a feeble tag whose vitals will not be disclosed, Cooper and Chalfant were like two Percy Fawcetts.
