• He switches on the ceiling light.

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  • He gestures at the zodiac mural on the ceiling, whose light bulbs create a twinkling starscape over the arrivals hall.

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  • In Chapter restaurant, designed by Tokyo's Spin Studio, a winding iron staircase leads to a mezzanine of book-filled shelves. (It's mostly decorative, though select guests are invited to venture up there.) White perforated screens over the floor-to-ceiling windows filter the light.

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  • When Bobbie paused to check the color of light on the ceiling, Arianda sat back on the sofa, legs splayed, singing to herself.

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  • Blue leather booths line the walls covered with Al Hirschfeld drawings, underneath dark wood molding contrasted with a modern splash of blue light at the ceiling's edge.

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  • In the light of the ceiling bulb I saw my reflection, standing with a cloth over his shoulder and looking out at me as if ready to hurl himself into whatever the day might bring.

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  • Modeled after Asian lanterns, Celeste is a compact and highly portable table light (sconce and ceiling versions are also available).

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  • The one-room building contained a table with a porcelain top and a hide-bottomed chair, both sitting under an unfrosted light bulb hanging from the ceiling on a long cord, and Obie went in and scraped dust and fallen dirt-dauber nests off the table with the side of his hand.

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  • Another innovation: square tiles of light that could replace fluorescent office ceiling lighting.

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  • Ambient lighting from recessed or flush ceiling fixtures casts an overall relaxed glow or bright light.

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  • Meanwhile, the curved ceiling of the main house captures the interplay of light refracted from the L-shaped pool, and the roof's louvered panels float above a wall of windows, perching on delicate wood columns as they shelter an outdoor patio.

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  • The floors throughout are a polished gray concrete and the walls are white, while light floods in through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

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  • Certainly the 1980 picture of a light bulb and some electrical wiring on a red ceiling in a room with red walls fits that description.

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  • If you put in three hundred lira twenty-five cents for a brief moment spotlights are turned on near the ceiling, bathing the stones of the mosaic in fresh white light.

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  • Light comes from an elliptical, domed and painted ceiling.

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  • Homeowners opting for fewer walls, floor-to-ceiling glass surfaces and wide-open spaces can bring in more light, make small areas look expansive and meld the living room with the backyard.

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  • There is a massive, wraparound glass staircase, and dropping down from the 24-foot-tall ceiling is a 12-foot-long "found art" light sculpture made by a local artist with steel rods and old trumpets, toy train tracks and parts of old pistons.

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  • Tasks such as changing a light bulb demand ladders and specialized handymen because of the home's curved ceiling.

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  • The sloped ceiling of the living roof has a gold leaf inset that is designed to reflect natural light.

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  • There was no debt ceiling because for the most part American government was limited in size, and thus taxes were light, budgets balanced (or in surplus), and money as good as gold.

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  • As a light "drizzle" falls on flower-bedecked umbrellas some dangling from the ceiling, others clustered in vertical stands "fog" swirls below.

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  • The ceiling is shoulder height, and you are trying to repair a piece of heavy machinery by the light of a small torch.

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  • Chants of "we hate West Ham, nobody likes us we don't care", initially light hearted became more and more strident and soon degenerated into racial chants accompanied by thumping on the ceiling of the carriage, denting it in several places, jumping up and down in unison swaying the whole carriage.

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  • "Although we weren't able to shatter this highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it, and the light is shining through like never before, " she said.

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