radiance

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

As I squeezed the pedal harder, the animated speedometer—designed a bit like an Aztec sundial, with spiky points blooming around the center—grew in radiance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

Another critic said he had "a fluid physical grace and an inner radiance that sometimes makes it seem as if he's lit from within".

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025

If you travel toward the observer at almost the speed of light, you will become enveloped in an eerie chromatic radiance: your usually invisible infrared emission will be shifted to the shorter visible wavelengths.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

These seemed to come rather by contrast and for encouragement; for the work was distinctly pathological, and dealt with the disasters and complications of emotions, as a rule, rather than with their glories and radiances.

From The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson

One or two of the radiances glanced at him with inviting eyes, but no, he dared not face it.

From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett

One blind man, when he goes out in the sunshine, suspects the great radiances; another prefers to stay near the good coal fire in the refectory....

From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell

For suddenly all that clamor died; the lightnings ceased; all the flitting radiances paled and the sea of flaming splendors grew thin as moving mists.

From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt