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radiance

[rey-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

All this gives the affair a narcoleptic quality, where flashes of radiance are quickly overwhelmed by everything else as we’re put back into our stupor.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 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

Now that they were out of sight of the lights of Bolvangar, and the blaze of the fire was only a faint glow, the only light came from the faint radiance of the snow-covered ground.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

The face Julian turned to his friend in the starlight was lit with radiances Napier had never thought to see there.

From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

Rocket radiances came from its rotating circumference; it came sailing directly at me, so swiftly that my own velocity was futile.

From Wandl the Invader by Ray Cummings

I saw the radiances of Jupiter and Saturn, spinning, with incredible swiftness, in huge orbits.

From The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

The well polished fire-irons, and other metal things, seemed to gather up the diffuse daylight and fling it back in concentrated radiances that illuminated the shady cottage with cheerful beauty.

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh

Spring has its subtler magic for us, because of the dim mysteries of unremembering remembrance and of the vague radiances of hope.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod




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