Sentence examples for like shafts from inspiring English sources

The percussive polyrhythms were rich, a dense foliage through which bursts of unison cut like shafts of sunlight.

The intermittent flashes of brightness, when they come, come suddenly, like shafts shooting through gaps in a prevailing cloud cover.

Glimpses of Ms. Battle's prime vocal estate — eloquently shaped lines, pure tones like shafts of light penetrating a haze — only made the performance more perplexing.

Delicacy is not their strong suit, but every moment of the piece is fully lived: Argerich's bold and insistent lines stand out like shafts of light against the wine-dark tones of her three friends.

And so the superlatives beamed down on him, like shafts of autumn sun, interspersed by a brief downpour from the perma-quote Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, who deemed that he should be "called to order" over his bouts of indiscipline.

Angels in the stained glass sing the Sanctus, first in long, sinuous quasi plainchant and then gradually dividing into more and more parts, creating tone clusters that dazzle like shafts of sunlight through the windows.

Shell will drill below the spar with spaghetti-like shafts tapping the seafloor in a 250-foot radius.

Walking among the tombstone-like shafts, there is no sense of threat.

They are circular, with a round base, a slender column-like shaft, and a large grease pan with a spike for the candle.

A sword-like shaft of light will pierce the cavernous interior, which will host "a multi-faith meeting place and a cultural centre".

We defined collateral axon branches as lamellipodium-like protrusions with an axon-like shaft that extend for at least 6 µm from the primary axon.