But the quiet colors, applied with sharp knife strokes, reflect both the peculiar light of Southern California and the ethereality of its landscape.
"Here and there giant flowers grew, glowing with a peculiar light like flickering lamps, and further in among the shadows moved tiny dots of cold green".
"The lights from Rocky Flats shine and twinkle on the dark silhouette of land almost as beautifully as the stars above," Ms. Iversen writes, "but it's a strange and peculiar light, a discomforting light, the lights of a city where no true city exists".
Zitrin's team has used the Keck Telescope in Hawaii to study this peculiar light signature from EGSY-2008532660, placing it, without doubt, at a time 570 million years after the Big Bang, that is, very early in the Universe when we consider that it is presently 13.82 billion years old.
The mechanism behind the peculiar light-dependent ZEP activation/deactivation in diatoms is not yet understood, but it is possible that the divergent C-terminal domains of ZEP1, ZEP2 or ZEP3 may play a role.
That peculiar, angled light in the Kirkenbauer kitchen.
Some peculiar bundled light fixtures are topped by anthemion leaves, another classical allusion.
Groundbreaking as it was, the act contained some provisions that look peculiar in light of later developments.
As an artist, he was a brilliant, painstaking technician whose strange fairy-talelike images, held together by a clever geometry, were bathed in a peculiar granular light.
But it does raise a question that casts a peculiar analytical light back through the history of movies and into the theory of screenplay practice, namely, the connection between what a protagonist knows and what a director shows.
