radiance
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More Hollywood romance came the next morning with George Cukor’s 1936 tragedy “Camille” starring Greta Garbo, at peak radiance on the Eastman’s print.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The recital acted like a religious experience in which a rarefied atmosphere befits radiance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026
‘This Christmas, let’s celebrate the love we hold within ourselves and share it with the world around us. After all, wherever we are, we can create a home filled with grace, radiance, and endless possibilities.’
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 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
The bright spread of water stretched on and on around them, finally merging with the white radiance of the sun.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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Creation, no longer monotonous, acclaimed him, in widening melody, in brighter radiances.
From The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
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
Overhead the stars shone as only tropic stars can, and their myriad radiances were reflected in the coal-black water, till it had all the appearance of an ebony floor powdered with gold-dust.
From In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas by Guy Newell Boothby
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
She was, in short, a thoroughly handsome woman, and the sunlight struck curious radiances from the little pearls she wore in the shell-like lobes of her ears.
From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
Vocabulary lists containing radiance
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 1
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