radiance
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More Hollywood romance came the next morning with George Cukor’s 1936 tragedy “Camille” starring Greta Garbo, at peak radiance on the Eastman’s print.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
She’s by his side clasping her hands, wearing a colorful blouse that pales in radiance to Huerta’s hopeful face as she looks at the crowd before them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
‘This Christmas, let’s celebrate the love we hold within ourselves and share it with the world around us. After all, wherever we are, we can create a home filled with grace, radiance, and endless possibilities.’
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025
Its singular radiance owes much to both romantic and religious impulses that Mr. Roeck’s book underplays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
The light was turning gold, and sunlight shone through a gap in the mountains and made a bar of radiance on a wall of rock just beyond the oasis.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
In those dim longdrawn expanses, all is so immeasurable; much so disastrous, ghastly; your very radiances and straggling light-beams have a supernatural character.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
Spring has its subtler magic for us, because of the dim mysteries of unremembering remembrance and of the vague radiances of hope.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
The Past, full of heavenly radiances, which issued, alas, in flames and sooty conflagrations as of Erebus,—let us forget it, and be taught by it!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle
Creation, no longer monotonous, acclaimed him, in widening melody, in brighter radiances.
From The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
The day that is beyond outshines all the lustres and radiances of earth, and turns them into darkness.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
Vocabulary lists containing radiance
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A Single Shard
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