Finally, as dusk swept across the spaceport, huge lights came on, flooding the duracrete pavement with a harsh white illumination.
The only illumination, harsh and white, came from directly above Bashir and spilled in a tight circle around his feet.
He forgot to squint as he stepped inside, so the sudden harsh illumination slapped his eyes.
The harsh illumination served only to highlight the numerous flaws in the Lovell's exterior.
The harsh illumination of the alcove light made him look suddenly old, harsh downward lines pulling his face into a frozen mask of age.
Then he pulled up sharp, panting and blinking the harsh illumination out of his pupils.
The harsh illumination had been dampened to the level Susan recalled from her first visit.
The mottled ocher walls are warm and soothing - but not the clownish paintings all about, made even more obtrusive by their harsh illumination.
The endless icefields soaked up the dim light, reflecting it back as a colder and harsher illumination.
Plazports and screens showed the water around them dim with blood, a dull gray in the harsh illumination from the sub's exterior lights.