Sentence examples for from the luminous from inspiring English sources

Raimi's new movie does benefit from the luminous presence of Franco, who seems worth watching in everything he does.

Hahn, guided only by her inquisitive ear, has spanned a dizzyingly wide range of styles, from the luminous avant-gardism of Richard Barrett to the autumnal neo-Romanticism of David Del Tredici and the post-minimalist bustle of David Lang.

The festival will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Paul Taylor Dance Company with three nights of programs that span Mr. Taylor's career, from the luminous 1962 "Aureole" to last year's "Grand Puppetier".

In his homily, Benedict urged the faithful to learn from "the luminous examples of these saints," men and women who "did not put themselves at the center but chose to go against the current and live according to the Gospel".

Dennis McFarland's novels -- from the luminous "Music Room" (1990) through the ineffectual "Face at the Window" (1997) -- have all been concerned with the nervous relationship between the present and the past and the protean role that memory plays in shaping individuals' sense of themselves.

* PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY The most bipolar of modern-dance masters, Paul Taylor and his dynamic performers will range from the luminous, in "Aureole" and "Arden Court," to the darkly tortured, in "Speaking in Tongues" and "Cloven Kingdom," with "Piazzolla Caldera" and other dances somewhere between.

Her fate is implied in the satin bedcovers tangled around her and unfurling across the cloudlike bed: They are as golden as Jupiter's miraculous shower cascading from above onto the luminous nude body.

Two dancers from Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seth Orza and the luminous Carla Körbes, dance a moody pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon's "Carousel".

"Just a three-day trip from Earth by spacecraft, the luminous Moon beckons," the show notes in travel-brochure language.

In the rapid passage from ground to cloud, the luminous return stroke is observed to pause at points where large branches join the main channel, and the channel is observed to brighten as charge from the branch flows into the channel.

Even Mr. Kagel's less lustrous Double Sextet was just a blip in a lively evening from the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, which presented excellent performances of works by Stravinsky (a crackling "Renard"), Gyorgy Kurtag ("Scenes From a Novel," with the luminous soprano Valdine Anderson and Simon Holtt ("Eco-Pavan," a study in echoes and slowness, in an atmosphere of clarity and danger).