moonlit

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Fashionable portraits and moonlit landscapes back home, then success with candlelit interiors and portraits of Wright’s friends in the Lunar Society of Enlightenment scientists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

In Nyoni’s terrific compositions, special mention must be made of David Gallego’s crisply evocative cinematography: interiors and exteriors of moonlit, shadowy depth that suggest an eternal night made palatable by pockets of haunting light.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

A car crashes at a dangerous bend on a clifftop road in Anglesey, North Wales, on a moonlit night in January 1909.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2024

The cover illustrates the field guns embedded in the mountain with a moonlit ocean and a couple of fighter planes buzzing the area.

From Washington Times • Nov. 23, 2023

Will looked back through the window at Lyra, and saw her face, moonlit and wide-eyed with fear, biting her lip to keep silent and straining to hear, as he was.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman