effulgence

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“There was not a breath of air. This terrific fall came down in perfectly perpendicular lines; and as the lightning rushed through it, it illuminated with its ghastly effulgence a broad sheet of water.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2020

Because Loomis Todd is played by Kathleen Chalfant, an actress of rigor and effulgence, the play also provides a master class in how to take a shopworn form and make it nearly new.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2019

But the effulgence of “No Shape” frees Hadreas.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

Inside parliament and out, he was a flamboyant self-advertiser who dripped superlatives, ornate insincerities and exotic effulgence.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2013

There was a soft effulgence in the east The moon was coming up, and its mystic shimmer was casting a million lights across the distant restless water.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin