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Yet he flexibly uses limited sources to advance precise readings of pictures that are luminously ambivalent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

Boo, who spent three years at the slum, emphasizes family ties and writes luminously about the daily struggles of Mumbai’s poor.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

Reviewing “The Eight Mountains,” which begins streaming on the Criterion Channel on Tuesday, I wrote: “Vast and intimate at once, their luminously languid adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s bestseller reaches sublime heights.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2023

Contrary to their name, dark stars could typically have glowed a billion times more luminously than the sun and grown to a million times its mass.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2023

The sky is luminously blue, with large woolly clouds.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline




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