radiance

All this gives the affair a narcoleptic quality, where flashes of radiance are quickly overwhelmed by everything else as we’re put back into our stupor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Drew Sensue-Weinstein’s sound design, which included adroit use of reverb on voices and instruments, dovetailed with Gabriel Crouch’s skillful conducting, which brought out the score’s transparent, early music-style radiance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

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

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

The sun was the blessing of the morning, the one celebrating element, an aesthete with no purpose except to shed radiance.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

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

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

Creation, no longer monotonous, acclaimed him, in widening melody, in brighter radiances.

From The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

She was, in short, a thoroughly handsome woman, and the sunlight struck curious radiances from the little pearls she wore in the shell-like lobes of her ears.

From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull

The rhinoceros soul got out; but not uninjured; alas, no; bitterly polluted, tragically dimmed of its finest radiances for the remainder of life.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 by Thomas Carlyle