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radiance

[rey-dee-uhns] / ˈreɪ di əns /




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However violent Gandhi’s quest for non-violence becomes, the production evolves into impossible radiance, turning the opera into something resembling a Passion Play.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

More recent interpreters underline the song’s vast reach, from Harolyn Blackwell’s operatic radiance and Norah Jones’s hushed Tanglewood version to Kenny Barron’s pensive piano meditation and Willie Nelson’s weathered country croon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Another critic said he had "a fluid physical grace and an inner radiance that sometimes makes it seem as if he's lit from within".

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025

How could Fiyero not succumb to her inner radiance?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

Heavy clouds loomed above, but behind the clouds the moon was nearly full and lent a faint radiance to the whole sky.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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