lustrously

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024

Behind the two seated in the middle, a fifth man, lustrously mustachioed, spreads his arms wide to clap a paternal hand on the shoulders of the figures standing at their sides.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2016

Although his phrasing could be more incisive, the tenor Burkhard Fritz offers a cleanly sung, powerfully acted Waldemar, and Emily Magee’s richly resonant soprano fills out Tove’s musical lines lustrously.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2014

In the six years since their debut, the Oxford band, led by the diminutive and lustrously bearded Yannis Philliakis have carved themselves out a niche as the thinking music fan's favourite band.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2013

No Niagara is hereabouts, nor Matterhorn, nor anything you could call sublime; nothing so lustrously beautiful as Bar Harbor, or the Berkshire Hills.

From Atlantic Classics by Various