Sentence examples for scant light from inspiring English sources

At night, scant light glimmers in the few shops still left open.

Far away, Shekhinah wanders between the buildings, picked out by scant light.

It casts only scant light on why people still bother to come in their thousands to pay homage to the painting.

Perhaps Muratov's guide illuminated the church with a torch, but now it's simply dark in here, and whatever scant light makes its way through the windows is blocked by tourists' backs.

Six years later, in the scant light that sliced through the grates, he armed himself with 40 cans of spray paint and created his first image, a re-creation of the "Mona Lisa".

Outside, on a makeshift patio (lovely for brunch in the summer), overturned furniture gives the place an abandoned air; inside, the scant light makes for a pleasantly seedy sodium glow.

He had his cameraman, Raoul Coutard, shoot with a handheld camera and scant lighting, partly for aesthetic reasons and partly to save money but mostly to save time.

Your eyes take time to adjust when you step into Frankie's Tiki Room at 3 p.m. Windowless, with scant lighting, the place resembles an urban cave with a scattering of wood-carved odes to pagan gods.

The lifts broke down, the stairwells were awash with urine, there was poor lighting and scant green or communal space.

A little later, living on scant savings in the red-light district of Seattle, he modelled himself on the crooner Cole.

Dorothy Emanuel LIKE WICKED WITCHES Dark mounds of old snow lean improbably against city street lights, skulk in scant shadow, huddle near newsstands, eavesdrop on world events.