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  • But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.†   (source)
  • Our kids, working with some people in San Diego called SPECTRUM Ministries, go over the border and into the back hills of Tijuana, where thousands of people live in little shacks without running water or sanitation.†   (source)
  • Above him the framed rectangle of sky slowly shifted through its limited segment of the spectrum, yellow to orange, as he sifted unfamiliar feelings and returned to certain memories again and again.†   (source)
  • But as soon as the information hits, it's replaced by confusion, by a notion so sickening it thrusts my emotions to the opposite end of the spectrum.†   (source)
  • The buggers could probably see about the same spectrum of light as human beings, and there was artificial lighting in their ships and ground installations.†   (source)
  • Root shimmered back into the visible spectrum.†   (source)
  • They were all different, they crossed the spectrum from rosy pink to dead black.†   (source)
  • I've worked with soldiers on all sides of the political spectrum; I've met some who hated the army and others who wanted to make it a career.†   (source)
  • Some of the more broad-spectrum ROEs are fine.†   (source)
  • Considering my whole situation, I was not about to be bothered by the spectrum of death at our picnic.†   (source)
  • I watched as each spectrum was born, rose toward the darkening dome of sky, and died.†   (source)
  • I stand ready to bring the full spectrum of combat power to bear in order to achieve my mission and the goals established by my country.†   (source)
  • At the far end of the spectrum, we might be reminded of Plato, who in the "Parable of the Cave" section of The Republic (fifth century B.c.) gives us an image of the cave as consciousness and perception.†   (source)
  • There's a Spectrum 2000 right in the middle of the waterfront.†   (source)
  • All the letters and numbers are here, all the colors of the spectrum, all the voices and sounds, all the code words and ceremonial phrases.†   (source)
  • Centered over the table hung a carefully calibrated light source that cycled through a spectrum of preordained colors, completing its cycle every six hours in accordance with the sacred Table of Planetary Hours.†   (source)
  • Some animals see things in the ultraviolet spectrum that are invisible to humans.†   (source)
  • She upset stacks of lingerie, ironed skins and blouses, shampoos, creams, chocolate, Sellotape, umbrellas, soap (and other bottled London smells), quinine, aspirin, broad-spectrum antibiotics.†   (source)
  • But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.†   (source)
  • This time Nathaniel played the first three movements of the Bach Sonata No. Excellent bow control for expressive playing, possibly a larger dynamic spectrum on f side would be desirable.†   (source)
  • A slightly lower pitch would have been better, but it could still fall within this man's spectrum.†   (source)
  • Your spectrum is about as wide as one of Coach's microorganisms.†   (source)
  • In an instant, the full spectrum of colors enlivened the previously drab world: the mist glowed white, the water became a rich blue, the daubed-mud wall that encircled the center of Dras-Leona revealed its dingy yellow sides, the trees cloaked themselves in every shade of green, and the soil blushed red and orange.†   (source)
  • Slowly her fingers climbed down, feeling the spectrums, weighing the light.†   (source)
  • "I am Chroma the Great," he continued, gesturing broadly with his hands, "conductor of color, maestro of pigment, and director of the entire spectrum."†   (source)
  • In the spectrum of international soccer styles, Luma favored the Latin American, and particularly Brazilian, style over the more regimented and methodical styles of European soccer.†   (source)
  • One bright summer day, I had lunch with two women who run a company in New Jersey called Sensory Spectrum.†   (source)
  • I could see each color of the rainbow in the white light, and, at the very edge of the spectrum, an eighth color I had no name for.†   (source)
  • The machine comes to life in the grey twilight, blushing its way through a spectrum of soft, romantic colours.†   (source)
  • Toward the middle of February, the various factions began to firm up their ranks as the entire spectrum of Zionist youth movements moved into the school in a drive for membership, the second such drive since I had entered the college.†   (source)
  • A few, like Enrique and Angel, could still play pretty well, but on the other end of the spectrum, Alfonso Cortez was slowly losing his eyesight from diabetes.†   (source)
  • Pieces of data came from every corner of the intelligence spectrum, funneled down to a direct point.†   (source)
  • It was fitted with two side-slung 16mm cameras, one for the visible spectrum, and one for low-frequency radiation.†   (source)
  • "Six figures encompass a wide spectrum," observed the countess.†   (source)
  • Grace had her new hat tipped rakishly forward and her hair, cascading from it to her shoulders, trapped the firelight in a spectrum of reds and ambers and golds.†   (source)
  • She was a warm light upon his skin, a spectrum of light beyond the ability of his eyes to detect, as were infrared and ultraviolet, but though he could not see her, he could feel her shining in the world.†   (source)
  • Watching her pinched face, I went through a spectrum of emotions.†   (source)
  • McDaniels continues to demonstrate capabilities well beyond the normal Apprentice spectrum.†   (source)
  • He knew the broad-spectrum antibiotic to rid the gut of parasites.†   (source)
  • Rather, the cold, lifeless blue was a leftover, the last remnant of light that remained after the dark moon had leached all the other colors from the spectrum.†   (source)
  • Where one fits on the prescriptivist/descriptivist spectrum is probably determined by many factors, including education, temperament, and general outlook on life—and age.†   (source)
  • Tom twirls his tumbler and the beveled glass catches the light, sending spectrums of color dancing on the wall.†   (source)
  • His appreciation of growing things became more subtle, turned within a more limited spectrum and gradually Lalla's visits tapered away.†   (source)
  • They offer each other the spectrum of notions; the bombers are North Korean terrorists, or the growing white-separatist cell based on eastern Long Island, or even the worldwide agents of the Mossad you can always lay blame on them-who will never forget Kwang's verbal support of the children of the Intifada.†   (source)
  • It is conceivable that one could write a decent ode to coal or electricity, but these were humorless, monomaniacal, terrifying exercises, matched rather well with the socialist realism on the other side of the political spectrum.†   (source)
  • For one thing, although my Union sample is somewhat more representative of the class spectrum of the army as a whole than the Confederate sample, it is still skewed toward officers and upper-strata occupations.†   (source)
  • The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visible spectrum at full brightness.†   (source)
  • The flame leaped higher and higher, its flickering sped up, and its color moved through the spectrum toward the ultimate heat of whiteness.†   (source)
  • Our opponents have much larger resources and a far larger spectrum of responses.†   (source)
  • He wished there were someone to ask, someone who could tell him how much love was the proper amount for a pair of newlyweds, how enthusiastic they should feel about their new duties and responsibilities, where they fell in the spectrum of human attachments.†   (source)
  • Occasionally he caught complex rhythmical patterns racing up and down through the audible spectrum, to vanish at the upper or lower edge of hearing.†   (source)
  • No matter who's talking, the different power spectra are the same, give or take a small percentage.†   (source)
  • Within the outer layers of civil life in that busy Southern town Jews were warmly, thoroughly assimilated and became unexceptional participants: merchants, doctors, lawyers, a spectrum of bourgeois achievement.†   (source)
  • In our understanding of the meaning of ludus, however, in our ability to realize that we may unify instances of activity from across a broad spectrum of behavior patterns by considering them as a form of play, we have a better basis for conjecture as well as interpretation.†   (source)
  • For in front of them rose a whole hillside aglow with shimmering colour: every shade of the spectrum sparkling, flickering, and interchanging: a kaleidoscope of brilliance rioting in the midday sun.†   (source)
  • It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers—the wets and the drys, the one-worlders and the isolationists, the vivisectionists and the anti-vivisectionists—from crushing the group on the extreme opposite end of the political spectrum.†   (source)
  • The lights in the groined vaults overhead changed again and shifted up the spectrum.†   (source)
  • There's a spectrum of Asperger's, from mild to severe— I barely heard her.†   (source)
  • The spectrum is all static and then it is not.†   (source)
  • The lobby of the Spectrum 2000 is an armed camp, full of beards with guns.†   (source)
  • "Not often you get such a broad spectrum of power in one room," Bob said.†   (source)
  • "This device bends the visible light spectrum," explained Dr. Rasmussen.†   (source)
  • "They're non-binary or mid-spectrum or whatever.†   (source)
  • Her image flickered through a spectrum of colors.†   (source)
  • The entire spectrum of the aural world was his.†   (source)
  • Melanie and I were suddenly at opposite ends of the spectrum.†   (source)
  • The spectrum of light I saw still seemed tainted with crimson.†   (source)
  • It was soon recognized that the drug was a broad-spectrum antiviral agent.†   (source)
  • "On the spectrum, we're still in the safe zone."†   (source)
  • SNOOPER, POISON: radiation analyzer within the olfactory spectrum and keyed to detect poisonous substances.†   (source)
  • Lei and Yang's idea for eliminating interference was very simple: ascertain the frequency spectrum and characteristics of solar radiation in the monitored range, and then filter it out digitally.†   (source)
  • They were conducting a kind of recon by fire, trying to flush me out, blazing away right across the spectrum, hoping someone would finally hit me and finish me.†   (source)
  • It was an objectively terrible opinion—my friends from the Marine Corps spanned the political spectrum and held nearly every conceivable opinion about the war.†   (source)
  • Instead, I found a bright yellow handprint on a dark wall (bright yellow to my especially fitted visor of course, invisible out of the UV spectrum) and then followed the trail of vague blotches where saturated clothing had touched market stalls or stone.†   (source)
  • I guess it may not make any sense to anyone else, but I felt this strange mixture of feelings, all across the spectrum.†   (source)
  • He was down to the same two goblets that she struggled with, and she watched as he put the water glass at the very end of the spectrum—the most poisonous—and the wine glass at the other.†   (source)
  • Now they see only in a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, hear only the loudest of sounds, their sense of smell is shockingly poor and they can only distinguish the sweetest and sourest of tastes.†   (source)
  • Prenatal exposure to an awareness-spectrum narcotic is the reason generally given for Bene Gesserit references to her as "Accursed One."†   (source)
  • The Orthos have organized their defense in the lobby of the Spectrum 2000: furniture has been overturned, barricades set up.†   (source)
  • The jihadists seem to have some kind of hammerlock on tribal loyalties, using a whole spectrum of Mafia-style tactics, sometimes with gifts, sometimes with money, sometimes promising protection, sometimes with outright threats.†   (source)
  • He raises the truck's aerial, puts on the headset, and scans the spectra, trying to find anything that is not sanctioned.†   (source)
  • He comes around a corner and finds himself on the waterfront street, looking straight into the facade of the Spectrum 2000.†   (source)
  • The thing was a spectrum of possibilities from the most remote past to the most remote future—from the most probable to the most improbable.†   (source)
  • They might have taken Arrakis when they realized the error of specializing on the melange awareness-spectrum narcotic for their navigators.†   (source)
  • The chopper's coming up the fjord, following it inland from the open sea, headed straight for the Spectrum 2000.†   (source)
  • Hiro turns his back on the Spectrum 2000 and starts running up and down the waterfront streets, scanning the logos until he sees the one he wants: Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end.†   (source)
  • Water is poisonous to shai-hulud as the Fremen had long known from drowning the rare "stunted worm" of the Minor Erg to produce the awareness-spectrum narcotic they call Water of Life.†   (source)
  • The scene in front of the Spectrum 2000 has devolved into a generalized roar of unbelievably loud white noise as all the people inside and outside of the hotel fire their weapons back and forth across the street.†   (source)
  • An "awareness spectrum" narcotic.†   (source)
  • TRUTHTRANCE: semihypnotic trance induced by one of several "awareness spectrum" narcotics in which the petit betrayals of deliberate falsehood are apparent to the truthtrance observer.†   (source)
  • Note: "awareness spectrum" narcotics are frequently fatal except to desensitized individuals capable of transforming the poison-configuration within their own bodies.†   (source)
  • As Max told his tale, he conjured colorful images of creatures, from a bloated bullfrog to a great whale spouting a spectrum of lights from its blowhole.†   (source)
  • That a man pleasured could so easily resolve himself to the whole spectrum of acts, indifferent and murderous and humane, and choose with such arbitrary will what he shall have to remember forever and forever.†   (source)
  • They crowded inside, sweaty and stinking as they pushed wet hair from their eyes and exchanged glances that spanned the spectrum from angry to sheepish.†   (source)
  • He is highly intelligent; he received a near perfect score on his SATs, and his interests span the spectrum from the history of Middle Eastern dhimmitude to theoretical applications of fractal geometry.†   (source)
  • Americans across the social spectrum have a real distaste for people who fail to pull themselves up by their bootstraps linguistically, and don't understand that this bootstrapping is not easy.†   (source)
  • I'm reaching the end of the spectrum.†   (source)
  • Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?†   (source)
  • The last person I can think of to do something like that would have been Elias Bram, and then only those at the weaker end of the spectrum.†   (source)
  • Gradually they were working their way up to the pointed pinnacle, and it began to flare as if on fire, shifting through the colors of the spectrum until its white flame rivaled the brightness of the sun itself.†   (source)
  • At first glance, they were as different as possible; they were at opposite ends of the spectrum, sharing nothing in common.†   (source)
  • The TV programs and this book marry these scholars' work to our sampling of the actual speech of ordinary Americans in all their variety, vitality, and humor, drawn from the widest social spectrum.†   (source)
  • The light from its burning then passed through the prism, where it was broken down to a spectrum that was projected onto a recording screen.†   (source)
  • Since different elements gave off different wavelengths of light as they burned, it was possible to analyze the chemical makeup of a substance by analyzing the spectrum of light produced.†   (source)
  • Spectrum shift?†   (source)
  • Broad-spectrum.†   (source)
  • The flowers would still bloom and the music would play and the fountains would ripple the length of the spectrum.†   (source)
  • It would climb the spectrum and hover at the edge of yellow, and the cycle would reverse itself, the, star would expand and cool, becoming once more a ragged, flame-red cloud….†   (source)
  • Spectrum analysis, in my head.†   (source)
  • In the songs Miles, Dean, Serge and Leonard sang was either some fraction of the truth's numinous beauty (as Mucho now believed) or only a power spectrum.†   (source)
  • She gauged the spectrum of feeling out there as running from really violent hate (an Indian-looking kid hardly out of his teens, with frosted shoulder-length hair tucked behind his ears and pointed cowboy boots) to dry speculation (a horn-rimmed SS type who stared at her legs, trying to figure out if she was in drag), none of which could do her any good.†   (source)
  • Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig?†   (source)
  • She knew that the sailor had seen worlds no other man had seen if only because there was that high magic to low puns, because DT's must give access to dt's of spectra beyond the known sun, music made purely of Antarctic loneliness and fright.†   (source)
  • What makes it a great deal more difficult to imagine is that everything which human beings would consider to be above the water level was fringed with all the colours of the spectrum.†   (source)
  • The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw colours of childhood's spectrum.†   (source)
  • It is like swallowing a sp-spectrum.†   (source)
  • The cathedral had two towers and a blue-varied belly of dome, finely crusted and as if baked in a kiln, overheated, and in places with the mutilated spectrum that sometimes you split out of brick.†   (source)
  • Foreigners returning on post from their own waste lands wrote home that here they seemed to catch a glimpse of the world they had believed lost forever among the mud and wire, and through those halcyon weeks Julia darted and shone, part of the sunshine between the trees, part of the candle-light in the mirror's spectrum, so that elderly men and women, sitting aside with their memories, saw her as herself the blue-bird.†   (source)
  • In some ways the best description of it would be to say that it looked like a photographer's negative, for he was seeing one ray beyond the spectrum which is visible to human beings.†   (source)
  • But the three zones mingle and amalgamate along the edges, like the colors in the solar spectrum.†   (source)
  • Save that an unknown element giving a group of four lines in the blue of the spectrum is concerned, we are still entirely ignorant of the nature of this substance.†   (source)
  • He watched her pretty and unconscious munching through the skeins of smoke that pervaded the tent, and Tess Durbeyfield did not divine, as she innocently looked down at the roses in her bosom, that there behind the blue narcotic haze was potentially the "tragic mischief" of her drama—one who stood fair to be the blood-red ray in the spectrum of her young life.†   (source)
  • Spectrum analysis of the black powder points unmistakably to the presence of an unknown element with a brilliant group of three lines in the green, and it is possible that it combines with argon to form a compound which acts at once with deadly effect upon some constituent in the blood.†   (source)
  • With great promptness, the light reappeared and grew stronger; and the refraction of the sun, already low on the horizon, again ringed the edges of various objects with the entire color spectrum.†   (source)
  • The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or only on its edge; as the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.†   (source)
  • The sun's rays hit the surface of the waves at a fairly oblique angle, decomposing by refraction as though passing through a prism; and when this light came in contact with flowers, rocks, buds, seashells, and polyps, the edges of these objects were shaded with all seven hues of the solar spectrum.†   (source)
  • He has half risen from his immense arm-chair, his clenched fists rest on the table, and he is gazing with curiosity and terror at a large luminous circle, formed of magic letters, which gleams from the wall beyond, like the solar spectrum in a dark chamber.†   (source)
  • Among the articulates there were annelid worms one and a half meters long, furnished with a pink proboscis, equipped with 1,700 organs of locomotion, snaking through the waters, and as they went, throwing off every gleam in the solar spectrum.†   (source)
  • …jellyfish called sea gooseberries that were adorned with reddish tendrils and gave off a subtle phosphorescence, members of the genus Beroe that are commonly known by the name melon jellyfish and are bathed in the shimmer of the whole solar spectrum, free–swimming crinoids one meter wide that reddened the waters with their crimson hue, treelike basket stars of the greatest beauty, sea fans from the genus Pavonacea with long stems, numerous edible sea urchins of various species, plus…†   (source)
  • Exceptional refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional.†   (source)
  • To conclude, I find in Scripture that there be Angels, and Spirits, good and evill; but not that they are Incorporeall, as are the Apparitions men see in the Dark, or in a Dream, or Vision; which the Latines call Spectra, and took for Daemons.†   (source)
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