Fights reach huge crescendos where a downed foe winds up on the receiving end of attacks that shower the landscape with sparks and great swathes of light and blood.
There was a surprisingly subdued atmosphere for a derby involving two sides beginning the day in the coveted top four, with swathes of empty light blue seats across the 42,785-capacity 42,785-capacity Villa Park
Despite this start, I am soon revelling in the day: the golden shafts of sunlight on the mossy atolls of the forest floor, the long swathes of primroses, and the flicker of light on a running deer's back.
Berlin's thought, like his writing, is made up both of swathes of sharp colour and of minutely variegated and subtle shades of light and darkness; it thus resists summary and simple conclusions, and repays persistent and open-ended study.
The first image in the movie is that of a microphone and a halo of light, followed by Gosling's face, and, from here on, entire swathes of the action are confined to closeups.
As the team described to the American Astronomical Society meeting here today, they combined the spectra of light from the red giants with data from NASA's Kepler observatory, designed to find exoplanets, to calculate the masses of 70,000 red giants across a large swathe of the Milky Way, out to a distance of 50,000 light years.
The blogosphere, American cable news and, in time, the rest of the media lit up with discussions of a swathe of e-mails from the moderately obscure Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia.
They are the most loathed figures on holiday, the stealthy shadows creeping through the dawn light, armed with little more than a tell-tale swathe of fabric over one arm, heading inexorably towards the line of poolside sunloungers.
At the same time, he has to be careful to avoid alienating the large swathe of people uneasy over the stand-your-ground laws in Florida and elsewhere in America in the light of the Martin shooting.
7.47am GMT Dixons grows sales in a lively Christmas There's a swathe of UK retailers reporting results this morning, sending my terminal flashing like a set of Christmas lights.
