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arc light

[ahrk lahyt] / ˈɑrk ˌlaɪt /


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Wrote The Post: “The size of this throng, he believes, is a criterion of the game’s drawing power under the arc lights.”

From Washington Post

And the television arc lights never went out.

From The Guardian

If he enjoyed being silly on the screen, Mr. Connery was darker and more complex when the arc lights were turned off.

From New York Times

Signals on the tracks told trains not to proceed, with warnings from hot arc lights with red glass covers.

From Salon

Any hint of holiness is wrecked by a rainstorm, and by the glare of the arc lights under which TV cameras hope to catch the miracle, yet Fellini does not rage at our credulity.

From The New Yorker