Sentence examples for scant lighting from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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.

Mr. Fischer, under insistent questioning, said he could throw scant light on why Mr. Klein drifted from the so-called Sponti scene of leftist agitators in Frankfurt into a world of terrorist violence.

"You lucky girls!" We pulled open the heavy pine door and had to squint to get our bearings, even at 4 p.m.; three lanterns on the large square table provided scant light for Mr. D'Arcy and his three companions, who were already seated around four benches.

You'd think that Coburn's got some 'splainin' to do, but as Washington etiquette has it, we spent the week learning every last footnote about Sotomayor while acres of press coverage shed scant light on the shoddy records of those judging her.