Rather, with a sensuously refined touch, he painted luminous, gently satiric pictures of doll-like, well-to-do people in situations of Henry Jamesian intimacy.
Carol Shields's novels, stories, and plays present the lives of ordinary women and men in a luminous, often gently satiric style.
It shows two people playing golf amid a paradise of palm trees, luminous fairways and gently undulating greens.
The day was perfect as we boarded – cotton puff clouds drifting across the sky, the luminous aquamarine ocean shifting gently.
The man in "Invention," danced with luminous purity by Raphaël Boumaïla, rises gently after every settling into the ground.
There, on an artificial hill, can be seen the airplanes gently gliding to land at Newark International Airport and the luminous towers still rising from Lower Manhattan.
The very fabric of the score — its luminous orchestration, its pearly vocal lines, its gently pulsing rhythms, its celestially circling song of young love — evokes the mundane beauty that we overlook.
I slung up a hammock on deck with the rest of the passengers and swayed gently as a blazing sunset engulfed the river in luminous halo of gold and vermilion.
It surrounds the viewer with a luminous, attenuated grid of white cord that is gently stretched this way and that by a quietly whirring motor.
