lustrously

As dawn breaks and dusk settles, the play of light and shadow turns the river green or gunmetal gray, lustrously pearlescent or mottled brown.

Shining lustrously in the action is Betty Hutton as a trapeze artist, who finds herself in competition with Cornel Wilde in his spectacular role as a performer of the same type.

Aside from “Cell,” all the canvases depict a single human, usually female and always lustrously nude, in realistic outdoor settings.

But some of the prints, whether black-and-white or lustrously blue, are lovely.

Part of the thrill of listening to him has been how lustrously he paints the unattainable.