luminousness

“The People are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred,” Whitman acknowledged, but not without the faith that the “miracle” of original identity, the “luminousness of real vision,” is within everyone’s grasp.

Gunn remains interested only in pursing what Sontag calls “the luminousness of the thing in itself.”

Hand-held shadow puppets loom large against bedsheets, and flashlights and illuminated bottles become emblems of otherworldly luminousness.

Neymar had proved his luminousness yet again – discounting Portugal, perhaps no other country relies as heavily on its star – and even Fred, onside or not, was about to postpone a doubt or two.

The day lingered though—in an exquisite luminousness.