Light drains away, silence falls.
Colour fades to monochrome as the light drains out of the day and my eyes become more attuned to movement.
With the light draining from the sky, those at the vigil joined together outside the old D.C.
"You could say there were ghosts here," he says, as the last of the day's light drains from the air.
It included this passage: "As light drained from the skies above the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn on Thursday, Sharlyn Marin, 18, huffed her way up 140 steps to visit her godmother, Judith Rodriguez, on the 10th floor.
As light drained from the skies above the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn on Thursday, Sharlyn Marin, 18, huffed her way up 140 steps to visit her godmother, Judith Rodriguez, on the 10th floor.
An unexpected romance causes them to exchange their plans: each lives the other's life and each is, differently, crushed by it; the lusted-after woman – you can see the light draining from Liz White's face – loses them both.
In Babaji that recent Friday evening, as the light drained from the sky, more police officers scaled a rickety ladder to join Mr. Sahi and me on the thatched roof.
Walter Kirn of the New York Times suggests that the "grisly scenes of dungeon interrogations and torture sessions" cast other aspects of the novel in a pale light, draining them of their significance and impact.
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").
