striplights

Jackie Peyton shlumps through her storylines in trainers and an anorak, unpowdered T-zone glinting ferociously under hospital striplights.

With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses 2011

But the combination, at one particular point, of sizzling striplights, medieval religious chants and khaki-clad first world war tommies produced a feeling of sensory and aural overload.

King Lear – review 2011

The moon always seems passive; it has no light of its own and no apparent strength to resist our nightly blitzkriegs of striplights and neon.

Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review 2011

If he's the same age or younger, however, we're back in Selfridges denim department changing rooms to those fortunate enough to have avoided this particular corner of hell, imagine Hades with 360-degree mirrors and inexplicably bleak 100-watt striplights.

The Age of Enlightenment juliette 2009

If he's the same age or younger, however, we're back in Selfridges denim department changing rooms to those fortunate enough to have avoided this particular corner of hell, imagine Hades with 360-degree mirrors and inexplicably bleak 100-watt striplights.

Archive 2009-01-01 juliette 2009

Black tea and bread and paperwork, the boredom and striplights, all so much not like the peeling back of that wet - heavy, cumbersome mattress, in the yard, in the dark.

'The City & The City' 2009

Still we all made the best of it, we angry ghosts waiting under the flourescent, flickering striplights.

Archive 2006-12-01 Rachel 2006

Still we all made the best of it, we angry ghosts waiting under the flourescent, flickering striplights.

Struggling for democracy Rachel 2006

Jasper stared at me in the green glow of the toilet striplights.

Incendiary Chris Cleave 2005

Up in the office it was a long grey morning and one of the striplights was flashing and buzzing like an electric chair.

Incendiary Chris Cleave 2005