Word: shimmering
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that countless suns shimmer in the Milky Way, each with planets of its own. So that one is, oneself, a paltry individual, if not, to speak quite bluntly, nothing but a little heap of dust...
...that this most Japanese of Japanese writers remains somewhat obscure to Western readers despite his 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature. His fiction seems to be most valued in Japanese for those qualities that are most difficult to render in trans lation: precision and delicacy of image, the shimmer of haiku, an allusive sad ness and minute sense of the impermanence of things...
...Gico makes during the first episode of her so-called magic show is that, in the interests of continuity, the audience "must look for a theme, but not too hard or you might miss it entirely." "We have a lot of kings," she says as the stage lights shimmer around her. "Maybe you could make something out of that...
Spartan nude beneath the shimmer of a robe; her hair on end and her eyes bright in some dubious ecstasy. This is not she. The woman whirls, the short and tight black body glowing in red lights, and his eyes see the flame-dripping dagger. This is not she. He scratches in his sleep. Snorts, and is angry. Turns and is at rest...
Visions of students clambering into University Hall for another occupation seemed to shimmer in front of much of the Faculty, for they seemed impervious to even the mildest calls for reform in the disciplinary process, intent instead upon keeping their defenses strong in the face of a largely imagined threat...