refulgence

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For his choreographic poem, Ravel imagined “an immense hall peopled with a whirling crowd,” and in the sheer refulgence of the waltzes, one can see dignified couples sweeping in circles across a floor.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022

But his life, unlike most lives, had the shape and the refulgence of a movie, and we can watch it again and again.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2016

It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2012

Oswald Spengler of Munich scorns such precarious optimism as only another instance of the pathetic pride which Romans, Egyptians and Orientals felt at the height of their refulgence.

From Time Magazine Archive

For in that city and in that year was born a male child, whose surname was eventually to eclipse by its own refulgence the renown of the city itself.

From Antonio Stradivari by Petherick, Horace William