"Bennett's brilliant and luminous" prose "is like stained glass: if you stare at it, you see things you missed," Christopher Buckley wrote here last year.
Dignity, formality, self-restraint -- our world is not awash in these virtues, but they're present on every page of Alan Bennett's brilliant and luminous prose.
The new painting apes Rembrandt's early style, which was luminous, dynamic, brilliant.
At his height, he was brilliant, handsome, arrogant, a luminous star in Princton's renowned mathematics department.
Luminous intelligence, brilliant wit and raconteur, striking linguistic ability, generosity of spirit, a keen social conscience and indomitable courage in the face of adversity, these were the qualities that endeared him to his legion of friends.
What a luxury: instead of playing tennis, I'm sitting in bed... Nature here looks artificial to me: the flowers too brilliant, the Caribbean Sea too luminous & turquoise, the beach too white, and the palm fronds a shade of green I associate with plastic utensils.
Looking stunning in a black ruffled designer gown, her brilliant playing and the luminous sound of her Stradivarius violin added a thrilling dimension in a vivacious duet with Haskin, accompanied by harpsichordist Steven Beck and cellist Robert Martin.
A 15-year-old malmsey from Blandy's is a luminous wine, with brilliant fruit and spice flavors and lively acidity.
The other high spot of the evening was a production of "Sweeney Agonistes", directed by Peter Wood and acted against a projection screen on which a luminous disc of brilliant spots & other optical razzle-dazzle, designed by Bridget Riley constantly changed color.
