radiance
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However violent Gandhi’s quest for non-violence becomes, the production evolves into impossible radiance, turning the opera into something resembling a Passion Play.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 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
‘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
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
At that Ged lifted up the staff high, and the radiance of it brightened intolerably, burning with so white and great a light that it compelled and harrowed even that ancient darkness.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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
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
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 swiftness of his ascent through these floating, waving radiances for which he had no name was nightmarish, like falling into some bottomless well.
From The Brain by Alexander Blade
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
Vocabulary lists containing radiance
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 1
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A Single Shard
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