brightness

But their unrelieved brightness and utter lack of texture have the bland flatness of plastic, and render them lifeless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

I use the zest of a whole lemon rather than its juice — lots of brightness, no unnecessary liquid — plus dried thyme, garlic, onion and enough black pepper to make itself known.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

According to Lang, the goal is not simply to increase the brightness of indoor spaces.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

During the chorus, harmonica borrowed from Stevie Wonder’s “That Girl” screeches into view, but the brightness only serves to accent the desolation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

And he went out foraging in the deserted places, and lo, an angel of the Lord came down, and brightness was all around him, and the angel said, “Be not afraid.”

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

Using data from the Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope, the researchers collected brightnesses for millions of stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two of the closest galaxies to Earth.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2023

This, they said, was consistent with quasars of different "brightnesses," meaning with varying strength to their radio emissions.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2023

‘Pray,’ they said, and I laughed, covering myself in the earth’s brightnesses, and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel, and prayed like an orphan.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

Besides dramatically boosting the total number of known FRB events, the observations also revealed a very wide range of brightnesses among the recorded events, offering new clues about the astrophysical nature of their mysterious source.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 13, 2021

I look at the moons one more time, the smaller one chasing the larger one, two brightnesses up there, still light enough to cast shadows, ignorant of the troubles of men.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness