In the dimly lit principal's office, Langlands sinks into a large chair.
Hardened every day at school, a diamond in a coal mine, my brilliance blinding eyes unaccustomed to the light, destroying principals unwilling to cede power to their superior.
Bathed in red light, the principals entered, peacocks strutting, pausing and posing on a mock runway to bass-heavy fanfare (beats courtesy of Subvader).
The company, it seems, was accustomed to lighting the principals in front and the corps behind; Balanchine's habit of deploying the corps throughout the stage made new demands on the lighting system.
The principal light on a scene is called the key light.
Light is the principal actor.
This particular ruckus has come to light because its principal victim (or offender) lives rather publicly.
Claude Monet said of impressionism, the movement he founded and led: "Light is the principal person in the picture".
Like Brouwer, Ostade delighted in scenes of low peasant life, such as tavern brawls, usually in dimly lit interiors with a single source of light illuminating a principal group, as in Carousing Peasants in an Interior (c. 1638).
The micro-futures were reviewed in the light of the principal uncertainties of the general scenarios.
It also sheds light on the principal reactors in operation today including light, heavy water, gas and other reactor types that have operated successfully, e.g. liquid metal-cooled reactors.
