Sentence examples for light-starved from inspiring English sources

Seemingly set in a distant purgatory, Limbo's light-starved world is beautiful and at the same time monstrously gloomy.

There are a handful of other thunbergias, as well as mandevillas and passifloras blooming in the Wave Hill greenhouse, which is an inspiration to a light-starved gardener.

Oh, I knew that light-starved, water-logged people were out there romping around Piccadilly Circus like newly escaped captives of a crypt.

I knew only that the advertisement, and the cultured Belgian accent of the woman who answered our call, promised to deliver me from the glum parade of tiny, light-starved two bedrooms we'd seen in the previous weeks.

While some growers start sowing tender veg such as chillies and tomatoes as early as January, it makes sense to hold fire until now, unless you like shuffling pots of light-starved seedlings around your overstuffed windowsills.

The scaffolding of the tower is slippery with rain, and I scale the rungs in a mild panic, passing up through the layers of the forest: the light-starved forest floor, the labyrinth of the understory and finally out into the mist of the canopy.

These results support the conclusion that cells maintain their size and morphology in the light under starved conditions by replacing endogenous respiration with PR-mediated ATP production.

In Norway, they set up a system of mountainside mirrors to beam light to sun-starved towns.

In contrast, Bcl-xL was detected throughout the whole gradient in control cells and was relocalised to very light fractions in starved cells; given the number of compartments in which Bcl-xL is present, it is reasonable to assume that it may interact with many partners, and this may account for the fact that Beclin 1 is not found as its main interacting partner through IP experiments.

Thus these are candidates to control the intracellular calcium levels after light induction of starved plasmodia.

Repeat trophies were also won by Damages' Glenn Close (lead actress in a drama), Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston (lead actor in a drama) and 30 Rock's Alec Baldwin (lead actor in a comedy), leaving the ratings-starved event light on surprises.