radiance
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More Hollywood romance came the next morning with George Cukor’s 1936 tragedy “Camille” starring Greta Garbo, at peak radiance on the Eastman’s print.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
She’s by his side clasping her hands, wearing a colorful blouse that pales in radiance to Huerta’s hopeful face as she looks at the crowd before them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
The first bridge built comes when Mother, played with restrained warmth and radiance by Ms. Levy, discovers a newborn black baby half-buried in her garden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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
Her genial, brown eyes had the radiance of pristine pearls.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
Colors and radiances surrounded him and bathed him and pervaded him.
From Martin Eden by Jack London
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
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 face Julian turned to his friend in the starlight was lit with radiances Napier had never thought to see there.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
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
Vocabulary lists containing radiance
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 1
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A Single Shard
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