radiance
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He named the resulting microscope Theia, after the ancient Greek Titaness associated with light and radiance.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
The recital acted like a religious experience in which a rarefied atmosphere befits radiance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 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
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
The sun was pouring into the broad courtyard of the goldsmith’s shop, flooding ovens, benches, crucibles, with a radiance that made even the washing vats seem things of beauty.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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 jagged crest of the peak shot sudden radiances of flame-crimson, then bathed itself in a flow of rose-pinks and thin, indescribable reds and pulsating golds.
From Kings in Exile by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Like little yellow stars that, fallen down, Hang pendulous, enmeshed among the boughs, Mild golden radiances they gem the crown Fair Summer sets upon her beauteous brows.
From The Path of Dreams Poems by Leigh Gordon Giltner
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
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
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