Each great party has felt itself in honor bound to justify its men and measures by elaborate argument, and so it has resulted that the light of science has been too often a crosslight, obscuring what it sought to illumine.
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Crosslight
Synonyms for "crosslight"
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Use crosslight on the coat to show the warp and woof, and bring out texture.
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This positioning will create a crosslight that will leave half your subject in shadow.
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Such a crosslight emphasizes and defines the forms of trees, buildings, hills and valleys and produces a picture with strong contrasts of darkagainst-light.
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