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  • But my post-11:45 p.m. life often involves TiVo, working on my laptop, checking my iPhone and generally enjoying a brightly-lit NYC apartment.

    Laura Schocker: The Great Wake-Up Program: Reflections On My Last Week As A Night Owl Laura Schocker 2011

  • The Bride later learns what transpired: The Flower Girl stepped forward into the crowded, brightly-lit room, relatives and strangers and camera-flashes, and stopped short, deer-in-headlights, for a long moment.

    Monday greenmother 2009

  • The brightly-lit store lacks the ambiance of a bar, but the customers are there for the beer.

    For Beer Connoisseurs, a Hopping Scene Joseph De Avila 2011

  • After endless, brightly-lit freeways, we drove along a completely deserted highway.

    Powdered Sugar on Bare Skin Jerry Ratch 2011

  • He was stoic, but until he got a brightly-lit magnifying glass that allowed him to scan a few lines at a time, he was lost -- lost to the point that he actually instituted Days with Daddy on Saturdays with his five kids.

    Valerie Tarico: Worshipping the Written Word Valerie Tarico 2010

  • The new rooms were brightly-lit and sensibly-shaped; there wasn’t a mouse or a pigeon in sight; the central heating worked; the tatty old Honours Boards had been replaced by nicely-framed pictures.

    Joanne Harris discusses Gentlemen & Players and her work in general. 2010

  • In the background, fireworks explode over brightly-lit buildings, a pile of rice and potatoes, three-spanking new missiles, and a bulldozer.

    North Korea on the Edge B.R. Myers 2010

  • When I heard the store manager tell me who was on the phone, and that it concerned our new house on Walnut Street in Berkeley, I thought I was going to crap right on the brightly-lit fluorescent aisles.

    The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 11 2010

  • Today, they are in a brightly-lit conference room in the Sheriff's complex in the super-secure County Administration Building.

    Sheriff's sale surprises Dan 2008

  • There is something about the way he's holding that cheroot between his thumb middle and ring fingers with his palm held upward — relaxed beyond reason outside a loud cantina casting shadows in the warm brightly-lit Mexican night

    My Brother Outside a Cantina at Night, Mexico 2010

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