Sentence examples for luminous days from inspiring English sources

In "Butterflies," Vladimir Nabokov writes about the luminous days he spent as a child lepidopterist in "the legendary Russia of my boyhood" (he later folded the essay into his memoir, "Speak, Memory"); Roger Angell shares memories of his stepfather, E. B. White, in "Andy".

As the historians James Blight and Philip Brenner show in their book, Sad and Luminous Days, it was precisely by failing to compromise, let alone acknowledge the motives of the other side, that the various actors – Soviets, Americans and Cubans alike – actually helped escalate the October crisis.

He writes here of running every day through a radiant New England autumn and on into the gruelling winter, and of luminous summer days in Hawaii, and all the time he is running he is thinking - but what is it he thinks of exactly?

During a recent visit on a luminous autumn day, he was busy preparing for an extensive retrospective at the Museo Le Carceri in the small town of Asiago, north of Padua.

She was virtually unchanged from her glory days, with the luminous skin and perfect curls that have always made her appear to float through the world in real-life Photoshop.

Use a facial exfoliate to get rid of any dead skin cells and for a healthier, way more luminous appearance for the other day.

It circles Alpha Centauri B, a reddish orb about half as luminous as the Sun, every three days at a distance of only about four million miles, resulting in hellish surface temperatures of 1,200 degrees.

And, it's a gift, to have the pages of my days authored by such luminous literary voices, their images and story-lines filtering through my dreams.

Modern oils are light and fresh, so you can wear them in the day to create a luminous glowy finish.

Down close to the water and its inevitable surprises, I've always been struck by how intimate and elemental San Francisco's connection with the bay becomes, how luminous its sky even on an overcast day.

The last I saw of the children on the first day was a group of luminous- bibbed, fully goggled munchkins singing "I'm a little tea-pot" as they made instant friends at ski school.