klieg light
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So I admit that it feels like grandstanding to shine a klieg light on one particular piece of news as it breaks.
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- noun A powerful carbon-arc lamp producing an intense light and used especially in making movies.
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- In jest, she dedicated the slab to Sid and signed her name and— kazam!— a klieg light erupted over Grauman's head. — EQMM, Sep/Oct 2005
- Reliable sources testify that the blindfolded star was something of a menace on the set, eventually taking out two stuntpersons and a $500 klieg light with her flailing cane. — The Warslayer
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So I admit that it feels like grandstanding to shine a klieg light on one particular piece of news as it breaks.
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The issue is tremendously divisive and will blast a klieg light on Obama's essential fascist soul.
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Taken together, they cast a klieg light on the humbling question of whether anyone's union ever is safe from harm.
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- After John H. Kliegl (1869-1959) and his brother Anton Tiberius Kliegl (1872-1927), German-born American lighting experts.
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