luminousness

His luminousness went out, and he sprawled at the edge of the trees.

And its blueness, even in the vial, held an intensity of luminousness.

A few stars had the brilliance to pierce that luminousness, down by the rugged horizon.

Lucetta had a heightened luminousness in her eye over and above the advanced colour of her cheeks.

The many months of abstention from wine had returned his grey eyes to their old luminousness, and the lines of dissipation were gone.

Ruskin wrote more eloquently about the light effects in the cathedral: "What is peculiar to this church is its luminousness.

Still, that incredible march endowed every last participant in it with a luminousness akin to godhead in the eyes of their fellow Roman soldiers.

And if she tends to overexplain her metaphors, her energy and luminousness lend new vitality to an enduring cliché (2:00).

Her natural girlish luminousness, peeking through the character's strained comportment, and her slightly affected diction work to her advantage here.

The pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue - but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out.

The imaged face of the Mother holding the Child, inclined downward from on high, was palely revealed from below, in a sort of indirect luminousness.

In their midst, Ms. Smith's Carrie radiates a religious luminousness like that of the saints in early Renaissance paintings.

But there was now something altogether unearthly in her beauty, ... a wondrous inward luminousness began to transfigure her face and form, .

It is, however, Ms. Woodard's particular luminousness, as she resurrects a girl who wanted to be a star, that lends newly infectious vitality to an enduring cliché.

"Let us consider a little each of these characters in succession, and first (for of the shafts enough has been said already), what is very peculiar to this church - its luminousness."

And the theme of luminousness suffused the service, from the introit ("Arise, Shine") to the closing hymn ("I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light").

Their wedding day, as described by Emma in her recollections, was 'a perfect September day - 17th, 1874 - not a brilliant sunshine, but wearing a soft, sunny luminousness; just as it should be'.

Over the course of her encounters with them, Miss Dakins loses a little of the character's innocence but none of her luminousness, which gives her the quality of a young Celtic queen.

We stood there looking up at the full Earth, losing ourselves in its flooding light, and I found myself wondering if perhaps it wasn't only the reflection of the sun, if Earth had its own luminousness.

A hanging lamp above the mirror, the only light in that room, brought out the warmth of her coloring: the fleece of light chestnut hair, falling to her shoulders, and the luminousness of the gray eyes.

This necessity gave Elric some small ad- vantage-that and the runesword Stormbringer which was glowing with a strange black luminousness and the shrill howling it gave out was grating into the ears of those who heard it.

Since her appearance in Caryl Churchill's "Skriker" two seasons ago, Ms. Atkinson has emerged as an actress of an emotional luminousness and depth that, among her American contemporaries, are rivaled only by those of Cherry Jones.