Sentence examples for figure of light from inspiring English sources

Pious Jewish circles, such as the Enoch community and other pietist groups, expected in the coming Son of man a figure of light from on high, a heavenly conquering hero, with all the marks of divine power and glory.

Light in August, novel by William Faulkner, published in 1932, the seventh in the series set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha county, Miss., U.S. The central figure of Light in August is the orphan Joe Christmas, whose mixed blood condemns him to life as an outsider, hated or pitied.

Blobby wasn't a figure of light entertainment, he was a creature on the edge – working through his demons by gunking low-level British celebrities every Saturday night.

In the middle she is a woman who must choose whether to make the ultimate sacrifice (as she says to herself, she has given her life for England, now must she give her soul?) By the end, she consciously turns herself into an icon, a figure of light drained of all humanity and yet exalted beyond the mortal world (the film's last line is "I am England. I am myself").

Blood-soaked dictators are juxtaposed with half-forgotten figures of light entertainment, great writers and composers with gadabouts and chancers.

Performers include the Reigning Sound, the A-Bones, Luis & the Wildfires, the Nouvellas, Mary Weiss, the Great Gaylord, the Figures of Light, Roy Loney, the Mighty Hannibal, and Handsome Dick Manitoba.

His film criticism was collected in "A World on Film" (1966), "Figures of Light" (1971), "Living Images" (1975), "Before My Eyes" (1980) and "Regarding Film" (2001).

Paolo Roversi, who will be the subject of a retrospective this fall in Milan, transforms models into angelic figures of light in "Nudi" (Steidl, $49.95), while his contemporary Michel Comte mines the shadows of a Japanese model's sexual bliss in a limited edition work, "Aiko T". (Steidl, $195).

As the scientists report online today in Science, they measured parallaxes of four Pleiads whose average distance turned out to be 444 light-years with an uncertainty of just 4 light-years a far greater distance than the figure of 392 light-years ahat Hipparcos scientists faror.

Figure 2 Dependence of light intensity on the reduction of TFA by Synechococcus.

Figure 2 Spectra of light reflectance for photonic samples having different sizes of silica globules.