Sentence examples for shear of light from inspiring English sources

Cormac McCarthy's apocalypse is unstated – he describes just "a long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" – and is all the more realistic for it.

It cannot be imagined as a punctual occurrence, like the "airborne toxic event" that hangs over DeLillo's "White Noise" or the nuclear war, remembered as "a sudden shear of light and then a series of low concussions," in the background to Cormac McCarthy's "The Road".

This paper considers the shear buckling of light gauge steel cassette sections both with and without an infilling of relatively rigid thermal insulation.

After the shearing, the change of light transmission through RBC suspension was monitored and an aggregation rate was calculated.

Within an environment of light shear, the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Flossie at 0000 UTC on August 9 and continued to organize to attain Category 1 hurricane intensity by 1200 UTC the following day as an eye became apparent on satellite.

Located within an area of light wind shear and warm waters, Isabel gradually organized as curved bands developed around a circular area of deep convection near the center.

Initially, Tropical Depression Eighteen-E was located in an area of light wind shear, and the NHC anticipated further organization and strengthening to near hurricane status.

Shortly thereafter, while moving into an area of light wind shear, it was able to organize and strengthen further, and on September 7 the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Edith near the island of Curaçao.

It moved northwestward, and within an environment of light wind shear and warm waters it steadily strengthened to reach peak winds of 165 mph (265 km/h) on September 11.

It moved northwestward, and within an environment of light wind shear and warm waters it steadily strengthened to reach peak winds of 265 km/h (165 mph) on September 11.

Satellite imagery indicated that a low level circulation had developed and was under an area of light to moderate wind shear.