luminousness

Example Sentences

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Gunn remains interested only in pursing what Sontag calls “the luminousness of the thing in itself.”

From The New Yorker • May 24, 2016

Fearlessly focused, Ms. Ringle sounded mellow and melancholy, her mezzo taking on an otherworldly luminousness in “Au cimetière” and a poignant richness in “L’île inconnue.”

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2015

Neymar had proved his luminousness yet again – discounting Portugal, perhaps no other country relies as heavily on its star – and even Fred, onside or not, was about to postpone a doubt or two.

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2014

She feeds the overcurious Jeffrey information she hears from her father—that the ear is connected to an investigation involving a local nightclub singer, Dorothy Vallens, played with a wounded luminousness by Rossellini.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2011

Then, as the day descended into evening, the autumn trees assumed that wonderful effect of luminousness self-evolved, 67 and the red brick walls that crimson afterglow, which Tuscan twilight takes from singular transparency of atmosphere.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington