It's somewhere between Mumdance's zero-g grime and Klaus Schulze's otherworldly drones, settling lightly in the sweet spot between the here and hereafter.
A smoking flame, the artist's signature, exudes an otherworldly calm as it exposes red tones in the adjacent chair and settles lightly on the woman's face.
The northern plains have been only lightly settled.
During colonial times the region was lightly settled but produced hides from the vast herds of cattle and horses that ran wild on the Pampas.
Without rigorous planning by such agencies large-scale, highly dispersed, and rapid conversion of lightly settled, amenity-rich forestland threatens habitat degradation at multiple spatial scales, i.e., local ecosystems themselves (e.g., lakes), surrounding landscapes, and regions.
When they couldn't find any merchant ships to loot, they settled for plundering lightly defended ports.
No state has less than three electors, and therefore any state potentially can decide an election, and all regions, no matter how lightly settled, must be considered.
In general, intensively urbanized landscapes have much profound effects on native biological diversity than do lightly settled areas [10], [11].
Writing for the three-judge panel, Judge James L. Oakes quoted Justice Antonin Scalia, who said in a 1990 opinion, "Elementary considerations of fairness dictate that individuals should have an opportunity to know what the law is and to conform their conduct accordingly; settled expectations should not be lightly disrupted".
Likewise the various family members, including Jane's mom, played by Lorraine Bracco, have settled into comfortable rhythms that lightly tether the often-crazy cases demanded by a TNT procedural (in the season opener, a state senator is assassinated) to richly imagined real-ish life.
