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

The recital acted like a religious experience in which a rarefied atmosphere befits radiance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026

More recent interpreters underline the song’s vast reach, from Harolyn Blackwell’s operatic radiance and Norah Jones’s hushed Tanglewood version to Kenny Barron’s pensive piano meditation and Willie Nelson’s weathered country croon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 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

His staff, black yew-wood, all radiance quenched, was grasped in his right hand, and he would not let go of it.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

And she is there, that is a pyramid Whereon the stars, the statues of the dead, Are imaged over the eternal hall, A group of radiances majestical!

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew

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 Bithell, Jethro

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 Giltner, Leigh Gordon

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 Merritt, Abraham

The face Julian turned to his friend in the starlight was lit with radiances Napier had never thought to see there.

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth