Unlike "The Hours," last year, in which Ms. Kidman put on a fake nose and frumpy clothes to impersonate Virginia Woolf, "Cold Mountain" makes no attempt to dim her radiance, and her beauty actually clarifies what in the book is a plot problem.
When two or more representations appear at once in consciousness, they conflict, and over time inhibit or dim each other's radiance until they reach equilibrium (SW V: 338).[39] That balanced end-state, and the distribution of the inhibitory load upon each representation at that end-state, is the concern of psycho-statics.
It seems not when, on the night before the Academy Awards, Chanel and Charles Finch hold their ninth annual pre-Oscars dinner, gathering into one subterranean restaurant so many boldface names that the wattage of any individual star seems to dim amid the ambient celebrity radiance.
For the romantic leads, family members, if they appeared at all, formed a backdrop, sometimes comical, sometimes supportive, sometimes grotesque, but always dimmer than the stars whose radiance they set off.
As the years pass, however, and the "radiance" of his passion dims, Nabokov is increasingly consumed with practical matters.
These stimuli differed substantially in their ability to excite melanopsin, with an 8.5-fold difference in melanopic radiance between "melanopsin bright" (5,821 melanopic cd/m) and "melanopsin dim" conditions (683 melanopic cd/m; Figure 2A).
Like radiance and radiation.
A mysterious radiance from within.
