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radiance

[ray-dee-uhns] / ˈreɪ di əns /




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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

The fashion label Coperni has created leggings and other garments made from a fabric embedded with bacteria, which it says help rejuvenate the skin and boost radiance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 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

Again, Omakayas remembered the proud, soft radiance of his brown eyes.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

She marvelled at the power that, out of things actual and trivial, things ordinary and suburban, had made for her these radiances and immortalities.

From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair

Rocket radiances came from its rotating circumference; it came sailing directly at me, so swiftly that my own velocity was futile.

From Wandl the Invader by Ray Cummings

Colors and radiances surrounded him and bathed him and pervaded him. 

From Martin Eden by Jack London

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

That singularly beautiful mineral termed "crocidolite," which displays such sheens and radiances of gold and bronze and green as give it the appearance of satin changed into stone, is nothing more than compressed asbestos.

From Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Robert H. Jones




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