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radiance

[rey-dee-uhns] / ˈreɪ di əns /




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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

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

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

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

The solar system will then be filled with an eerie radiance, the ghost of the Sun, outward bound.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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 Abraham Merritt

They were all living radiances against the dropped curtain of the world.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley

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

Reeves smiled at the gloomy fancy, and Helen smiled back at him with one of her sudden radiances.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery




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