hard light

noun

, Cinematography.

directed light, especially light whose beams are relatively parallel, producing distinct shadows and a harsher modeling effect on the subject.

His thin, drawn features are sternly set, and the sunken eyes are lit with a deep, hard light.

Tom Chester watched him with a hard light in his clear eye, and a moistening of the palms of his hands.

She loved him best of all things on earth, but for the moment she saw him in the hard light of disillusionment.

When he once more faced the boys, the hard light had vanished from the blinking eyes, and a softer light shone there.

All his footlight picturesqueness vanished in the cold, hard light of an unromantic Brooklyn breakfast-room.

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