Sentence examples for on a flickering from inspiring English sources

As the dancers move gingerly, pausing in semi-static poses — balancing on one leg or crossing one foot over the other to execute a quarter-turn — their bodies take on a flickering quality under the lights.

You could easily imagine these figures on a flickering black-and-white screen.

The next day they would trade their butter and grains for manufactured goods at the Jinka market, but on that night, as they watched Ethiopian music videos on a flickering black-and-white TV, they seemed as giddy and disoriented as I felt in this peculiar setting.

"Are you really going to love three o'clock in the morning looking at a spreadsheet on a flickering computer screen?

Movements took on a flickering, shimmering quality.

At the beginning and the conclusion — alpha and omega — we gaze on a flickering flame that can only represent the creator.

If his shadow hangs heavy over the album, it's more of a flickering presence on "Live at the Royal Albert Hall," though no less crucial.

And although I tend to like my uni straight up, I did not regret the crush of peanuts in garlic oil dabbed on top, a flickering heat.

In "Late Anthropocene" on this album a flickering note worries at the track like a lone mosquito in a perfect parlor, while in the album's title track a nearly continuous ping way above the guitar stays endlessly discordant.

The lone shopper looked weary as he searched through the stacks of videos on wire shelves under a flickering fluorescent light.

With television becoming the dominant medium of communication, the drama and excitement of pro football could be experienced in the home, even if as a flickering image on a small black-and-white screen.