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spotlight
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spotlight
a powerful light focused so as to illuminate a small area, usually mounted so that it can be directed at will

spotlight [′spät‚līt]
(electricity)
A strong beam of light that illuminates only a small area about an object.
A lamp that has a strongly focused beam.


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In one scene, performers paced a circle around a changing, spotlit soloist, whose bursts of indulgent movement alternated with rest, paralleling the searing Jeff Beck guitar solo.
Standing before a dazzling projected image of a placid alpine scene disrupted by an avalanche, I am aware of two mysterious presences above me to the left and the right, spotlit to cast elaborate linear shadows on the floor.
Franklin Schuebel, sweet Franklin Schuebel, lies still, his face spotlit by a bit of light from under the bathroom door.
 
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