radiance
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She’s by his side clasping her hands, wearing a colorful blouse that pales in radiance to Huerta’s hopeful face as she looks at the crowd before them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 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
Its singular radiance owes much to both romantic and religious impulses that Mr. Roeck’s book underplays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 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
I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor, clean scoured; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
The day that is beyond outshines all the lustres and radiances of earth, and turns them into darkness.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
That singularly beautiful mineral termed "crocidolite," which displays such sheens and radiances of gold and bronze and green as give it the appearance of satin changed into stone, is nothing more than compressed asbestos.
From Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Robert H. Jones
One blind man, when he goes out in the sunshine, suspects the great radiances; another prefers to stay near the good coal fire in the refectory....
From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell
For suddenly all that clamor died; the lightnings ceased; all the flitting radiances paled and the sea of flaming splendors grew thin as moving mists.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
Who that has suffered has not felt wave after wave break dully against one rock, till brain and heart, with all their radiances, seemed lost in a single shadow?
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
Vocabulary lists containing radiance
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 1
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A Single Shard
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