radiant
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In the film, a laconic Kevin Costner is charged with protecting the life of a singer—Whitney Houston, so radiant that she eventually turns his stoicism into Jell-O.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Another important factor was what was called radiant heat, he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
If L7 was a statement, Finch was its punctuation, her crayon-bright hair complementing a radiant humanity.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
This time, the smiles, the hugs, the radiant joy filling Atlanta Stadium could have powered the entire state of Georgia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Durham! and as if by magic, everything springs into new life, the veins and arteries of business throw off their stagnation and the bright sun of prosperity sends its radiant beams out upon the world...
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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These are described as "meteors with stationary radiants," since for months together they seem to come from the same fixed points in the sky.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
Observe that the principal radiants are situated upon the boundary of the dark regions or at the oases.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
He gave a bound, remaining fastened to the ground by one of his radiants, and raised the others like a bundle of reptiles.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
Unlike the other well-known showers, the radiants of which are stationary, that of the Perseids shifts each night a little in an easterly direction.
From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage
These nodal points will not, however, afford a general explanation of the many-branched radiants.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
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