"Venice: Under the Rialto Bridge" (1909) is almost equal parts dark shadow and blinding light.

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The aircraft was about three miles (4.8km) out from the runway when the pilot reported a "blinding light", Exeter Airport said.

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Unfortunately, to reap the benefits of the Optimal Light Therapy System, you have to spend 30 minutes with your face in front of a blinding, bright light.

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On the Newt 2012 sign hanging above the double doors is a make shift laser light show blinding Newt out.

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The light is downright blinding if you time your drives poorly.

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Every light surged on, merciless and blinding.

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But with future telescopes, scientists say it may be possible to see past the blinding glare of the parent star to pick out just the faint light passing through a small world's atmosphere or even reflected off its surface.

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Depending on the capricious whims of the extreme Arctic climate and calendar, thick clouds reveal remote fragments of the landscape as if concealing some great mystery, blinding sunshine illuminates the ice, or perpetual moonlight bathes it all in the strange, blue half-light of the polar night.

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