6 sentences with 'horizon'
Example sentences and phrases with the word horizon and other words derived from it.
• « Fragments of music and bits of information created a kind of golden glow over the horizon, when the sun set in the West, that inaccessible, but, ah, so desirable West. »
• « Arguably one of the main causes of the collapse of the western empire was the fact that the Empire as a whole had focused its resources in the east for a century by the time waves of invaders appeared on the horizon from the 4th century AD onwards. »
• « In Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, one can see how the walls and ceiling tiles seem to lean towards a point on the horizon behind Jesus (in the centre). That imaginary point - the 'vanishing point' - was one of the major artistic advances associated with linear perspective, pioneered by Brunelleschi. »
• « Also, the one thing the bourgeoisie and the working class had in common was a belief in the desirability of the right to vote; by the end of the century universal suffrage for men was on the horizon (or had already happened, as in France in 1871) in almost every country in Europe. »
• « The rainbow starts at the horizon, rises and returns to it, forming a multicoloured semicircle that is not really a rainbow. It happens that the sunlight is dispersed in a conical shape, with the sun itself as its vertex. When the luminous radiation hits tiny water droplets, the section of this cone is illuminated, forming a rainbow. »