Among the most enigmatic features of the lunar surface are several light, swirling patterns with no associated topography.
The three judges held their wineglasses to the light, swirled the contents around and took sips, letting the fluid rest lightly on their palates.
Late at night in the smoky light swirling through the dance hall of a brothel, hardened women strike angular poses on the wooden chairs, their dresses sometimes rising or falling away to reveal the bare flesh of the gartered thighs above their hose.
At first it was thrilling just to be in a boat under a starry sky, but then things got spectacular: every stroke of the paddle sent wooshes of blue light swirling around the kayak; forearms dipped in the water came up wreathed in momentary sparkles.
An ominous tone hums in the background as strobe lights swirl against the dark background of a soundstage.
[cue boos from the pro-bulls crowd. The stadium goes dark, air-raid lights swirl round the arena, and someone a stadium attendent turns the volume on the pumping nu-metal soundtrack (sorry, I'm too old to know what it is) to 11.
With an elevated setting you can watch your videos and see the pretty blue lights swirl underneath the base.
Flashing neon pink, turquoise and green, the lights swirl across the sky in myriad imagined shapes (is that a walrus, a witch, a whale?) before whipping back on themselves and disappearing.
An aluminum moon floats at the end of an empty shipping container while multicolored lights swirl around it, amplifying and diminishing the craters and textures that mark its surface.
The house lights went down, then red lights swirled around.
