Almost the same concept – to have the sunrays enter the interior- was applied to the city house design, to let the sun's rays illuminate the central hall's alter all the day; and that required to have the square house design tilted to the north and, to have the central hall's roof higher.
The high noon's rays illuminated the scene, adorned with puffy cumulous clouds upon a baby blue sky.
As I watch the sun's rays slowly illuminate the mountain that looms over me, the mist clears, and my lack of connection to the outside world becomes a benefit, not a drawback.
The narrow patch of sky visible through the moss-covered leaves and branches was gray, but upriver the sun shone bright, misty rays illuminating our passage like some heavenly corridor — wonderful for the aesthetically oriented centers of the brain, but doing nothing for the adrenal glands.
The sun's rays spill in through the window, illuminating the cavern and the five of us supporting each other against the barren rock walls of the desert.
And, like any scarce good, they attract jealous owners in this case males, for whom the sun's rays form a spotlight that illuminates passing females and allows the owner to swoop down and show himself off.Male intruders into a light pool are, however, subjected to rather different treatment.
Friedrich's The Cross in the Mountains (c. 1808)—a painting of a crucifix illuminated by the sun's rays at the summit of mountain expresses a spiritual sentiment by way of the natural elements.
And soon he began to fashion a dramatic, swooping building of rough-hewn limestone, meant to resemble cliffs carved away, with windows aligned so that at winter and summer solstices, the sun's rays would shoot in like beams to illuminate sacred objects.
As a result, Mars will be brightly illuminated by the sun's rays, making it the brightest object in the Earth's sky, just behind the sun and moon.
February brings a display of earthshine, when "the light of the sun, reflected from the earth, is dimly illuminating the body of the moon, so that a ghost image of the whole of the shaded planet is visible above the bright sliver that is catching the sun's rays".
