radiance
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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
The growing closeness between Olive, played with quiet radiance by Ms. Rogers, and William, whom Mr. McHale renders with galumphing gawkiness, forms another affecting strand of the score.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
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
And he was suspended between radiance and darkness.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
The well polished fire-irons, and other metal things, seemed to gather up the diffuse daylight and fling it back in concentrated radiances that illuminated the shady cottage with cheerful beauty.
From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh
Who that has suffered has not felt wave after wave break dully against one rock, till brain and heart, with all their radiances, seemed lost in a single shadow?
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
She marvelled at the power that, out of things actual and trivial, things ordinary and suburban, had made for her these radiances and immortalities.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
Spring has its subtler magic for us, because of the dim mysteries of unremembering remembrance and of the vague radiances of hope.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
Vocabulary lists containing radiance
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 1
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A Single Shard
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