When he takes in something new a visitor, a thought, a passing car in the distance his eyes narrow, as if in hard light, and his lower jaw protrudes a bit.
Here, in the smoking ruins of Pompeii, sometimes it's hard to see the light.
It is hard to resist making light of the current vogue for apologies.
They are, moreover, eminently sensible in light of hard experience with countries that cheat and use treaties to wage asymmetric warfare against us.
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Over the past few months, there are so many students and parents who have been working hard to shine a light on this issue.
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In a statement, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup said the increase in force level would provide 11 Light Brigade with the resources they need to "sustain and build on the hard-won achievements of 19 Light Brigade over the summer - achievements of which the entire nation can and should be proud".
They look heavy and bulky, but hard thin plastic is quite light, and they are certainly protective.
And then she designed a device that uses light to kill hard-to-reach cancer cells while leaving the healthy ones untouched.
But in the light of Simpson's death it's hard to not read the same words in a different light.
Particularly on Mondays, papers are often so light that they are hard to fling from a car or bicycle to a doorstep.
Larry Light thought long and hard about that question before editing the Investment Guide that begins on 2001 Investment Guide, page 157.
The Kindle's light however, is hard to spot, thanks in part to a much thinner bezel: you can't just angle the reader and see the lights here.
That is a hard question to answer, because light travelling along a fibre subtly changes the properties of the fibre itself, in a way that is difficult to model.
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"It would be hard not to call him the greatest light heavyweight of all time, " White said.
Curiously, the camera doesn't beep when turned on with the remote, so unless you have an assistant standing by to look at your little light it's awfully hard to tell whether you're recording.
"We knew we wanted a modern house with big open spaces, clean lines, and lots of light, which is pretty hard to find in this city unless you build it yourself, " says Ms. Dobranski.
The goal is to hit all of them, and I've been to about 10 agencies, and really trying to shine a bright light on all of the hard work done by our nation's employees.
Of course they are not known by cute marketing terms like they are in the U.S. There, the kids who are selling hard candies at an Avenida Paulista stop light are just plain poor.
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An upper-middle class residential area in the early 1900s, Lapa later fell on hard times and became a red-light district in the 1930s, its taverns and brothels the stomping ground for a broad swath of Rio society - artists, politicians, bohemians, intellectuals and malandros (con men).
But McNamara's men made light of the freezing temperatures and hard surface to deliver an emphatic display.
But without the backlight on, it's rather hard to see the top LCD without some light shining on it.
Making small, light, efficient, cheap cars is hard, and harder as the standard for lightness, smallness, efficiency, and economy is raised.
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Reverend DEBORAH JOHNSON (Senior Pastor and Founder, Inner Light Ministries): It is extremely hard, and I'd like to do a friendly amendment to what we just heard about that the African-American community knew exactly what it was doing.
It offers the full protection of a hard-shell case with an ultra-thin, light-weight, low-profile design.
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In the meantime life is going to be tough, although it does sounds as if there is some light at the end of a long, hard tunnel.
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Under its shiny new skin, new hardware and software, such as a slimmed down version of Apple's OS X operating system and a flash memory drive, instead of the current iPod's mechanical hard drive, could keep the new device thin and light.
The design is certainly flexible and light, but the slim amount of padding supplied was hard to forget about when wrapped around this editor's ears.
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Mr. HUGHES: It's really hard to make an argument for letting the market regulate itself in light of what's happened over the last few weeks, let alone the last six months.
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