Blood dripped down the front of his sweater, soaking into a dark streak of dirt that ran diagonally across the white wool on his shoulder, as though the bright V woven into the neckline had melted, running a darker color.

In Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End ( 1953 ), though written after the present flood of dystopias began, we can see the bright vision of science fiction clearly defined.

Glasses and other vision aids, large-print materials as well as bright but angled reading lights, can help individuals with albinism, even though their vision cannot be corrected completely.

The brightest stars are mostly blue supergiants, though the cluster contains a few bright red supergiants.

With current LCD technology, brightness, though important, is usually similar from maker to maker and consequently is not discussed much, except for laptop LCDs and other displays that will be viewed in bright sunlight.

One example of this is found in advertising, when an advertiser wishes for particular lights to be bright and visible, even though others find them annoying.

In general relativity theory, it is still possible for the paradox to hold in a finite universe: though the sky would not be infinitely bright, every point in the sky would still be like the surface of a star.

For example, freshly prepared, bright red phosphorus is highly reactive and ignites at about 300 ° C, though it is still more stable than white phosphorus, which ignites at about 30 ° C.

Duchovny's audition was " terrific ", though he had talked rather slowly, and while the casting director of the show was very positive toward Duchovny, Chris Carter thought that he was not particularly bright.

At the novel's beginning, Becky Sharp is a bright girl with an eye to improving her lot through marrying up the social scale ; though she is thoroughly unsentimental, she is nonetheless portrayed as being a good friend to Amelia.

" Shaun O ' Connell in the New Boston Review notes that " those who see Seamus Heaney as a symbol of hope in a troubled land are not, of course, wrong to do so, though they may be missing much of the undercutting complexities of his poetry, the backwash of ironies which make him as bleak as he is bright.

Many plants pollinated by hummingbirds produce flowers in shades of red, orange, and bright pink, though the birds will take nectar from flowers of many colors.

One bright spot during the season was Oilers goaltender Dwayne Roloson, though, as he became the oldest goalie to play sixty games.

An example of this is the reflection seen in an oil slick ; even though the reflection is only a fraction of that seen in a mirror surface, the reflection of highlights can still be seen as bright white areas, not dull grey shapes.

On normal pianos, felt coverings on the hammers will harden and compress with use ( though not usually for at least several decades, unless it is a heavily used concert piano ), yielding a characteristic bright, tinny sound.

The national press were already predicting a bright future for the teenager, and though he could have then joined any club in the country, he signed as a professional with Stoke on his seventeenth birthday.

For good optical systems and most images ( which do not have a bright light shining into the lens ), flare is a secondary effect that is widely distributed across the image and thus not visible, though it reduces contrast.

They are hardy animals, tolerant to a wide range of water conditions, breeding easily in captivity, compatible with most other freshwater fish, though typically mottled brown in colour, other species are more exotic-spots of bright yellow on a dark background being a common patternation, albino variants are also common.

The parable of His light is, as it were, that of a niche containing a lamp ; the lamp is in glass, the glass like a radiant star: lamp lit from a blessed tree-an olive-tree that is neither of the east nor of the west the oil whereof so bright that it would well-nigh give light itself even though fire had not touched it: light upon light!

: What though the radiance which was once so bright

The penduline tits ' typical plumage colors are pale grays and yellows and white, though the European Penduline Tit has black and chestnut markings and some species have bright yellow or red ( Perrins 2003 ).

Like the Droopsnoot Firenza, the HS was available only in silver, with red highlighting and a bright red, black and tartan interior ; though ( partly to help sell unsold vehicles ) some cars were repainted black, such the Mamos Garage HS-X.

Gwo ka singing is usually guttural, nasal and rough, though it can also be bright and smooth, and is accompanied by uplifting and complex harmonies and melodies.

Most honeyguides are dull-colored, though some have bright yellow coloring in the plumage.

Be careful here not to overexpose this subject since they are extremely bright and light-reflecting.

Washed, they came out surprisingly clear and bright.

`` You see '', she said, looking past him into the room, where the highball glasses sparkled dully in the bright light, `` you and I can't understand the many hardships they have to undergo ''.

The women had a bright shining expectancy as they leaned out from the wall and gazed splendidly into the distance, while the men were stern but hopeful.

The three sepals are generally colourful and bright ( which is why they are sometimes called outer tepals ), with one on each side (" lateral sepals ") and one usually at the top of the flower (" dorsal sepal "), sometimes forming a hood.

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 ).

In addition to the deep chestnut colour of their coats, they have bright white stripes on their sides to help camouflage them from their enemies.

Comets are most interesting when their nucleus is bright and they display a long tail, which to be seen sometimes requires a large field of view best provided by small telescopes or binoculars.

Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies are important sources of information for studying dark matter, as they have an uncommonly low ratio of visible matter to dark matter, and have few bright stars at the center which would otherwise impair observations of the rotation curve of outlying stars.

This early ninth century military leader is commemorated in this way because he is said to have ordered huge illuminated lanterns to be placed at the top of hills ; and when the curious Emishi approached these bright lights to investigate, they were captured and subdued by Tamuramaro's men.

The arms are visible because the high density facilitates star formation, and therefore they harbor many bright and young stars.

These are the primary inhabitants of salt lakes, inland seas, and evaporating ponds of seawater, such as the deap salterns, where they tint the water column and sediments bright colors.

Because of this, these devices are usually operated between crossed polarizers such that they appear bright with no voltage ( the eye is much more sensitive to variations in the dark state than the bright state ).

Although these nebulae have different visibility at optical wavelengths, they are all bright sources of infrared emission, chiefly from dust within the nebulae.

Neptune's rings are very unusual in that they first appeared to be composed of incomplete arcs in Earth-based observations, but Voyager 2's images showed them to be complete rings with bright clumps.

Because quasars are extremely distant, bright, and small in apparent size, they are useful reference points in establishing a measurement grid on the sky.

Noting that " the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long ", Tyrell explains that the reason Nexus-6 replicants do not live longer is not due to some sort of kill switch, but because they physically cannot — the result of the superhuman capabilities engineered into them.

Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described their style as " concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.

Australian music historian, Ian McFarlane described their style as " concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.

The flowers are pure pale blue, 15 – 25 mm diameter, with five petals ; they can also be bright red.