His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!

Standing then with the others, peering into the sun, he saw the bright, multicolored legion, their hair flying like dark banners, only the thunder, the roll of drums, the mad cacophony of the hoofs accompanying them.

The snake was hideous, and I remembered, even then, the cool, bright fire of it only a little while before, and I thought perhaps the boy had always seen it dead and hideous like that, and had not even stopped to see the beauty of it in its life.

Many stars visible to the naked eye have such a low absolute magnitude that they would appear bright enough to cast shadows if they were only 10 parsecs from the Earth: Rigel (− 7. 0 ), Deneb (− 7. 2 ), Naos (− 6. 0 ), and Betelgeuse (− 5. 6 ).

Eta Bootis, or Muphrid, is only 3. 3 light years distant from Arcturus, and would have a visual magnitude-2½, whereas an observer on the former system would find Arcturus as bright as Venus as seen from Earth.

At magnitude 5. 5, it is only 1 / 370th as bright visually as Antares A, although it shines with 170 times the Sun's luminosity.

Although Camelopardalis is the 18th largest constellation, it is not a particularly bright constellation, as the brightest stars are only of fourth magnitude.

Canes Venatici contains no bright stars, α and β CVn being only of 3rd and 4th magnitude respectively.

Also, the increasing freedom, and opportunities for diverse careers in today's Indian population helps pave the way for bright and talented musicians, of any genre, not only Hip hop.

These red LEDs were bright enough only for use as indicators, as the light output was not enough to illuminate an area.

Produced only for the North American market, the Special Vehicles Division of Land Rover created only 250 of these bright yellow SUV's.

The only other bright spots of the season was Trevor Hoffman getting his 600th career save and the emergence of new closer John Axford.

* In photographs recorded with infrared-sensitive passive ( non-IR emitting ) equipment, the eyes ( not only the pupils ) usually appear very bright.

" Guare said that Bernstein only worked after midnight and Robbins only worked in the bright and early morning.

Of the first five luminous LMC X-ray binaries: LMC X-1, X-2, X-3, X-4, and A 0538-66 ( detected by Ariel 5 at A 0538-66 ); LMC X-2 is the only one that is a bright low-mass X-ray binary system ( LMXB ) in the LMC.

The actual photopigment is bleached away in bright light and only replaced as a chemical process, so in a transition from bright light to darkness the eye can take up to thirty minutes to reach full sensitivity ( see Adaptation ( eye )).

These defense mechanisms are effective only if they are also well advertised and this has led to the evolution of bright colours in unpalatable butterflies.

Discrete aurorae are usually observed only in the night sky because they are not as bright as the sunlit sky.

Examples of such environmental modifications include using the bed for sleep or sex only, not for activities such as reading or watching television ; waking up at the same time every morning, including on weekends ; going to bed only when sleepy and when there is a high likelihood that sleep will occur ; leaving the bed and beginning an activity in another location if sleep does not result in a reasonably brief period of time after getting into bed ( commonly ~ 20 min ); reducing the subjective effort and energy expended trying to fall asleep ; avoiding exposure to bright light during nighttime hours, and eliminating daytime naps.

The Reverend John Michell calculated in 1767 that the probability of a chance alignment of so many bright stars was only 1 in 500, 000, and so correctly surmised that the Pleiades and many other clusters of stars must be physically related.

The skyline, the bridges, Broadway, and the Staten Island ferry are only a few of the spots to put on your `` must '' list for New York City.

Interpretation, naturally, remains the role of the therapist, but orientation -- not only the patient's vocal giveaways of geographical and socio-economic background, but also vocal but non-verbal giveaways of danger spots in his relationship to people -- can be considerably beefed up by the linguist.

When the full league programme resumed in 1946 – 47 Charlton could finish only 19th in the First Division, just above the relegation spots.

Most casinos allow paytable wagers of between 1 and 20 numbers, but some limit the choice to only 1 through 10, 12 and 15 numbers, or " spots " as keno aficionados call the numbers selected.

Foodservice establishments of this category had fixed spots of business for having their own places, but not as large as those belonging to the category of dian, and thus did not have tables, but only seats for customers.

This can be done by hand only for a small number of spots, and all the new results since 1990 have been obtained by extensive search with computers.

One image of spots is insufficient to reconstruct the whole crystal ; it represents only a small slice of the full Fourier transform.

During one 30-year period within the Maunder Minimum, astronomers observed only about 50 sunspots, as opposed to a more typical 40, 000 – 50, 000 spots in modern times.

Electro-optic deflectors have only a small number of resolvable spots, but possess a fast response time.

In one common variation, once a player is reduced to three pieces, his pieces may " fly ", " hop " or " jump " to any empty spots, not only adjacent ones.

A cheetah with hardly any spots was shot in Tanzania in 1921 ( Pocock ); it had only a few spots on the neck and back, and these were unusually small.

There were only a few places where the Snake River was not buried deep in a canyon, and few spots where the river slowed down enough to make a crossing possible.

Some of the world's legendary surf spots are in Southern California as well, including Trestles, Rincon, The Wedge, Huntington Beach, and Malibu, and it is second only to the island of Oahu in terms of famous surf breaks.

A Bengal cat displaying spotting and rosetting pattern typical of the breed: Rosetted spots occur only on the back and sides, with stripes elsewhere.

A Bengal's rosetted spots occur only on the back and sides, with stripes elsewhere.

Moodysson has said he could not have made the film without his strong Christian beliefs, and the frequent religious fantasies that Lilja has are the only tender spots in the bleak world Moodysson presents.

The league went from 6 division winners and 6 wild card spots to 8 division winners and only 4 wild card qualifiers.

In some cases, the aliens already look much like Humans-in the Star Trek franchise, in the 133 years before their participation in first contact in 2063, no fewer than six Vulcans spent significant amounts of time on Earth ( though none were " invaders "-three were shipwreck survivors, the other half time travelers, in the company of at least one Human, from a future where their respective worlds were political allies ), and were able to pass themselves as Human simply by using hair or hats to conceal their pointed ears ; likewise the Bajoran Kira Nerys needed only to put a Band-Aid on her ridged nose, while at the same time the Trill Jadzia Dax was able to pass off her natural spots as tattoos.

Further rules stipulated that a family could only send one of its children at a time during any particular tour year so as to avoiding hoarding of spots by families.

It was one of the best known spots in Arizona during this period of time because it not only had a reliable source of water, but offered an abundance of food thanks to the peaceful Pima and Maricopa farmers who lived and farmed nearby.

In the fall, M. nivale infection begins as small, orange to red-brown spots, circular and only a few centimeters in diameter.

Thus, if the mean annual air temperature is only slightly below, permafrost will form only in spots that are sheltered — usually with a northerly aspect.