Like silhouettes

Usage examples of backlit.

Wade half expected to find his father in an eye-patch overlooking a backlit map of the world, stroking a white Persian cat and planning ICBM attacks on New York.

She was backlit, and she knew she could only appear to her family like an astral visitation, a uranium angel with a head shelled in Plexiglas, crackling with power and the Word.

Fiddler and the five marines trailing in his wake were low enough to keep their silhouettes from being backlit by the flames as they reached the base of the slope.

When she went out to the porch, he was leaning against the framing, looking up into the night sky, and for a moment, Karen studied him, His profile, backlit by the moon, was strong, and powerful arms were crossed over his chest.

The hralcin was coming down the hall, backlit brilliantly by the pursuing Sunspark.

The tribes would see her as a huge, dark silhouette, backlit by the rising sun.

Ahead, to the west, a backlit haze of dust reduced distant, eroded mesas to pale fantasy castles.

There was something about that unwinking stare, backlit and magnified to his own size, that swept away his smug aura of self-importance.

Polly was also in shadow, dimly backlit by the glow of her bedside lamp.

In my postadolescent, always horny, immature, unabashedly romantic heart of hearts, I hoped that she would speak, that when I turned I would find her there in the trailer doorway, breathtakingly backlit, that she would say-softly, softly-something unimaginably seductive, and that I would take her to bed for a night of unrestrained passion.

Mars, especially these summer mornings, you get a fine view from the Rimshot Cafe, eastward from the lip of the caldera, fine white slopes of the old shield volcano tumbling gradually away, superimposed against the gray-green plains below, Jovis Tholis an isolated red pimple in the midst of all that, then the purple majesty of Ascraeus Mons, trailing wings of backlit cloud, peeking over the horizon.

D U S T T 0 C H A P T E S H E W 0 K E F R 0 M a restless, dream-filled sleep and saw him, He stood beside her bed, backlit by the grainy light that seeped around the bathroom door: a huge, faceless silhouette with shoulders like mount am slopes.

She was whirling around and around like something in a drain, rising, seeming to swim, bluely backlit.

They were leaning in the archway to Boq's room, a pell-mell clot of them, backlit by the oil lamp in the study beyond.

I got to notice what I'm sure you've noticed long ago, I know, I know you've seen me brought home on occasions, dragged in the door, under what's called the Influence, son, helped in by cabbies at night, I've seen your long shadow grotesquely backlit at the top of the house's stairs I helped pay for, boy: how the drunk and the maimed both are dragged forward out of the arena like a boneless Christ, one man under each arm, feet dragging, eyes on the aether.