klieg light
Example Sentences
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Spectacle, the klieg light of the powerful since before even the ancient Olympics, is still more than capable of blinding us to the dark.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024
It always feels like if you take a bright light, like a klieg light, and the script is like an orange gel, okay, everything's orange.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2020
Film Streams at the Ruth Sokolof Theater, a two-screen venue in the Saddle Creek Records complex, shines a klieg light on foreign and independent films, documentaries, retrospectives and other non-kapow! fare.
From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2017
No, she didn't get a million bucks, but I know how we can do it – you pick up the klieg light, and I'll hold the envelope.
From The Guardian • May 16, 2013
Opening night was marred when a klieg light became lodged in Mr. Hasselhoff’s chest hair, causing a small fire.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2011
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.