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radiance

[ray-dee-uhns] / ˈreɪ di əns /




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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

As Elmire, Ms. Gray has a gentle radiance and tolerant air of affection for her husband’s folly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

‘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

Up ahead it curved to the right and there was a faint blue radiance, like the sky of early night.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

These aërial creatures throng to contemplate the Virgin, and their forms recall those radiances in the shape of crowns that fill the Dantesque Paradise, making the name of Mary resound with their praises.

From Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton

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

In those dim long-drawn expanses, all is so immeasurable; much so disastrous, ghastly; your very radiances and straggling light-beams have a supernatural character.

From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Thomas Carlyle

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

The cherry trees were swollen almost to blossom, and the apple trees had pale radiances in the glance of the sun.

From 'Doc.' Gordon by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill




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