radiant

On his social media accounts, the difference is striking: a face that was radiant in old pictures, now gone sullen.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Ninety years on, Kern and Fields’s achievement is still doing what they built it to do—turning a single radiant evening into a refuge against a colder day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Another important factor was what was called radiant heat, he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

On the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, Garibay described her daughter as an amazing soul with “a radiant heart.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

She’s wearing a green-and-white silky shalwar kameez—the colors of the Pakistan flag—and a matching white hijab that makes her almost radiant.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

These are described as "meteors with stationary radiants," since for months together they seem to come from the same fixed points in the sky.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

These nodal points will not, however, afford a general explanation of the many-branched radiants.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly

Yet, since a few detonating meteors have been found to proceed from ascertained radiants of shooting-stars, it is difficult to suppose that any generic difference separates them.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

The order of their power as radiants and absorbents is that here indicated, bisulphide of carbon being the feeblest, and amylene the strongest of the six.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall

Unlike the other well-known showers, the radiants of which are stationary, that of the Perseids shifts each night a little in an easterly direction.

From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage