strip-lighting

A brightly lit supermarket is a tough place to set a comedy, though; something about all that strip-lighting seems to bleach out the laughs.

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"There'll be combat physiques," he says, "and balaclava helmets, and machine guns, and there'll be neon strip-lighting, and everything will be antiseptic and everyone will over-react madly and the audience will sit there, taking it all incredibly seriously, and I'll be sitting there stuffing my fist in my mouth, because I'm trying so hard not to laugh."

Christina Patterson: Interview With David McVicar: "I Am Good at What I Do Because I Care So Much" 2009

Her prints flashed congratulatory green; a second door opened with a rattle of beads and she fell into the arms of something rubbery and cool and not even vaguely human, lantern eyes misted by fluorescent strip-lighting, fingers as narrow and defiant as petrified twigs.

Archive 2006-02-01 Mac 2006

He'd lost his tinted glasses, and his eyes were reduced to slits in the glare of the strip-lighting.

Fleshmarket Close Rankin, Ian 2004

His head was pounding in the glare of the strip-lighting now.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

Not something you just happen to have on you, in the jacket-pocket or shoulder-bag pharmaceutical cache: paracetamol for those strip-lighting headaches, antihistamine for the occasional bout of hay fever, and cyanide in case you suddenly feel the need to top yourself and aren't going to get home for hours.

Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997

On it there was a blurry and smudged stramash of colours, visible only when the sheet was tilted at an angle that didn't reflect the strip-lighting off its glossy sheen and into the lenses of his specs.

Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997

Harsh strip-lighting shone down upon a cylindrical stainless-steel structure some twelve feet long - a press, perhaps?

No Laughing Matter Simpson, Dorothy, 1933- 1993

While his path to the presidency may end in the world's most famous mansion, it begins in the gutted shell of a disused Blockbuster Video on Ingersoll Avenue, where a handful of volunteers hunch over laptops, canvassing by phone under harsh neon strip-lighting.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Jon Swaine 2011

A brightly lit supermarket is a tough place to set a comedy, though; something about all that strip-lighting seems to bleach out the laughs.

The Guardian World News Andrew Mueller 2011