strobe lighting

noun

1. a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc

2. the use of or the apparatus for producing such light

Example Sentences

I am about to be subjected to strobe lighting while music plays – as part of a research project trying to understand what makes us truly human.

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"Dear Valued Customer, we wanted to get in touch with you as soon as we could to make you aware that the content warnings for Dark Noon have now been changed and are as follows: Contains potentially distressing themes. Depictions of physical and sexual violence, haze and strobe lighting."

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The film was shocking and appalling and shot in a dizzying style with circling camerawork and strobe lighting that was as likely to nauseate viewers as the vicious and visceral content on screen made them wince and cringe and head up the aisles.

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Strobe lighting froze them in brief snapshots; in one such, they reached for each other.

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The film-within-a-film ends with an on-set disaster — a burst of nightmarish imagery, all retina-scalding neon hues and strobe lighting effects — that might, for Noé, qualify as a kind of miracle.

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