opalescence

Here, he is joined by the harpist Brandee Younger, who adds some lunar opalescence to his sound.

In dusky colors often shot through with opalescence, they picture ordinary objects on flat surfaces — a shoe, a bowl, a paper bag — as if they were sacred relics.

Across the violet surface of the Mediterranean and the crystal opalescence of the evening sky the music fell voluptuously.

Color tends to a muted opalescence, but in “Moving,” in which she appears three times at about life size, dancing across a five-foot-wide canvas, an intense yellow glow suffuses and heats the image.

This term, derived from fluor-spar after the analogy of opalescence from opal, does not presuppose any theory.