Sentence examples for luminous setting from inspiring English sources

With its sponged purple walls, wicker furniture and batik fabric -- "We were going for a beach-house effect," Ms. Bahati said -- the apartment is a luminous setting for a happy woman.

Devoted runners like me still make it to the park and delight in the briskly luminous setting, but we are outnumbered by the dogs, who, encouraged by their owners, have taken these conditions as an invitation to run wild at all hours, brazenly taking over our turf and leaving their mark - yellow stains defiling otherwise pristine white snow.

GEORGE E. PATAKI, who was New York's governor for the 12 years before Client 9, was born in this jigsaw of a city that today mixes the gritty, the bohemian and the quaint in a luminous setting on a Hudson River bay.

But it is still waiting for a cast that flashes as fiercely as its luminous set.

That the early part of the evening was thematically grim and subdued only made the luminous set by headliners Local Natives shine brighter.

What may look from the air like a blazing oil slick can turn out to be a kilometers-long carpet of marine algae, their luminous bodies setting the ocean aglow.

"Othello," an unusually tortuous undertaking, which began in 1948 and was finished in 1951, somehow achieves a commanding stylistic unity, with airy, luminous vistas set against dank, claustrophobic interiors.

Interpretation, of course, can wreak havoc on any of the three ballets that make up "Jewels," but the luminous "Emeralds," set to selections of Fauré's "Pelléas et Mélisande" and "Shylock," is the most fragile.

The opening night was a benefit for both the Pillow and the Taylor company and began with "Cascade," a filigreed and luminous work set to Bach concertos recently seen in New York.

The then Leader of the House of Commons, John Biffen, recounted how Dormand would "swathe himself in luminous strips" before setting off, and although he abandoned the bicycle in 1987, deterred by London's heavy traffic, he took up walking instead.

In fact, though, it points backward, to precisely the era in which "Luminous Airplanes" is set.