I hate you!" The Irish Annals of the Four Masters recorded the comet as "A star [that] appeared on the seventh of the Calends of May, on Tuesday after Little Easter, than whose light the brilliance or light of The Moon was not greater; and it was visible to all in this manner till the end of four nights afterwards".
A scale rates stones in three categories: return of white light, or brilliance; return of colored light, or fire; and scintillation, or twinkle.
Nobody in the world lives deeper in this dark advertising hole of the internet than I do, but occasionally a spark of brilliance lights up this terrible place and, at least for a moment, makes this ad-critiquing gig worthwhile.
Visit to the Western Union laboratory at Water Mills, L.I. to inspect a lamp that gives a light whose brilliance is one-sixteenth that of the sun.
Cut refers to the angles of the diamond's facets, which determine the amount of light, or brilliance, reflected out of the stone.
Yet in Cristaux, his new work for Ballet Black, Pita uses the exquisitely glassy glockenspiel music from Reich's Drumming to choreograph a fantasy of light-reflecting brilliance, at the centre of which is Cira Robinson – magnificently sparking in a crystal-studded tutu.
Macroscopically, the carbonate scales expose well-developed crystal faces on their growth surfaces supporting some prominent light reflection (brilliance) in spite of their dark coloring (Fig. 1d).
Her impact on cancer genetics has been extraordinary and is all the more impressive because of her light touch, brilliance, and modesty.
We are all from the same source and we all have the capacity to bring light and brilliance into the world.
On the lighter side of brilliance, the Library of America offered Ira Gershwin: Selected Lyrics, edited by Robert Kimball.
