radiance
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The growing closeness between Olive, played with quiet radiance by Ms. Rogers, and William, whom Mr. McHale renders with galumphing gawkiness, forms another affecting strand of the score.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
‘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
And in their first feature lead role, the queer, L.A.-born actor Tonatiuh embodies all of Molina’s contradictions — his bluster, his pain, his radiance — to heart-wrenching effect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
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
Her genial, brown eyes had the radiance of pristine pearls.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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
The worst enemy admits that there are piercing radiances of perverse insight in it; the highest friends, some few, go to a very high point indeed.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
I saw the radiances of Jupiter and Saturn, spinning, with incredible swiftness, in huge orbits.
From The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
The well polished fire-irons, and other metal things, seemed to gather up the diffuse daylight and fling it back in concentrated radiances that illuminated the shady cottage with cheerful beauty.
From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh
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
Vocabulary lists containing radiance
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A Single Shard
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