luminously

Example Sentences

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Reviewing “The Eight Mountains,” which begins streaming on the Criterion Channel on Tuesday, I wrote: “Vast and intimate at once, their luminously languid adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s bestseller reaches sublime heights.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2023

Contrary to their name, dark stars could typically have glowed a billion times more luminously than the sun and grown to a million times its mass.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2023

“Woods’s English sentences are also wonderfully lucid — an important criterion in assessing translations of Mann, who, for all his piling on of circumstantial details, writes luminously transparent German.”

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023

The sun was getting lower and the sky was still luminously blue.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2022

Then, with the dog running ahead of him, he moved southward toward the fields, lion-colored now, luminously golden with after-harvest stubble.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote