Meaning of crosslight | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Light that comes from the side, causing shadows that can obscure objects of view or create strong contrasts.
   uncountable, usually
2. A traffic light intended principally to allow pedestrian or other traffic from a lesser roadway to cross a busier roadway.
   countable, usually
3. Illumination directed at the performers or subject matter from opposite sides of the set.
   uncountable, usually
4. Light that results from multiple sources and different directions.
   uncountable, usually
5. Multiple perspectives or points of view.
   figuratively, uncountable, usually
6. One of a number of differing points of view.
   countable, figuratively, usually

Examples

“Each great party has felt itself in honor bound to justify its men and measures by elaborate argument, and so it has resulted that the light of science has been too often a crosslight, obscuring what it sought to illumine.”

“Use crosslight on the coat to show the warp and woof, and bring out texture.”

“This positioning will create a crosslight that will leave half your subject in shadow.”

“Such a crosslight emphasizes and defines the forms of trees, buildings, hills and valleys and produces a picture with strong contrasts of darkagainst-light.”

“When the crosslight turned green, silence was much less perilous.”

“Again, the crosslight is best designed to angle slightly upstage taking care not to produce shadows on backings.”

“Quick buffo comedy requires the clarity of the straight play, while sustained romantic anguish flourishes in atmospheric backlights and crosslight.”

“In building a stable for horses only, where you can have light as you wish, I would say always have crosslight, so that the rays will cross as near where the horse stands as possible.”

“There is sometimes an advantage, however, in getting a double light, or a crosslight, on a subject; or, in other words, in letting two men explain the same point.”

“For my own part, I want to stand in the crosslight, to stand where all we can grasp of the world around us, scientifically, sociologically, culturally, can still be seen and spoken of with wonder and compassion.”

“The incident of the palm was interesting in throwing an illuminative crosslight on the gentler human side of a man who had generally been rated as without either gentleness or humanity.”

“In one crosslight all this bears a strong resemblance to Animal Farm, where, though all animals were equal, some were more equal than others.”

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