Jhumpa Lahiri has written, of "Light Years," "I'm shamelessly in its debt".
When Katherine Mansfield writes of lovely light coming off the sea, rising up and inhabiting the room, I know what she means".
They all swaddle their laconic heroes in rich rhetoric (Lent writes of "etiolated predawn light"), but rarely allow them to speak more than a wry sentence or two.
"They're keeping the lights on late for the promise of heaving bosoms and consciousness-altering orgasms," a reviewer wrote of "Northern Lights," a 2004 romantic thriller set in the Alaskan bush.
Hendricks wasn't sure whether Cayce foretold this eclipse, but he was known to write, "Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness".
In some parts of his paper, when Newton wrote of the "rays" of light, he had evidently intended to remain neutral on the question of whether the rays are particles or waves (this is reminiscent of the ancient Greek practice of avoiding physical discussions of visual rays).
One critic wrote of the resulting collection, A Light Song of Light, that "it is poetry as song, poetry as aural experience, poetry that wears its heart on its sleeve and asks the same from the reader".
PW writes: In light of the Brown meetings, it becomes clear decisions must be made around around whether Blair makes a new statement around his plans for staying on as leader or not.
"I was completely surrounded by a wall of light," Reagan wrote of his first venture onto a movie set.
As a lower-court judge in the Texas case later wrote of the ruling, "The light offered by Vieth is dim, and the search for a core holding is elusive".
