Phillip's prickly, precocious thoughts in "Luminous Motion" are channeled through the squeaky voice of Eric Lloyd, the cute, pudgy-faced actor enlisted to play this murderous, possibly psychotic character.
In the Pali scriptures, for example, Buddha links the positive aspect of conscience to a pure heart and a calm, well-directed mind: "when the mind is face to face with the Truth, a self-luminous spark of thought is revealed at the inner core of ourselves and, by analogy, all reality".
To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas -- the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
From its very first episode where Paolo interviewed Sharon Osbourne, the luminous web-series took off, combining thought-provoking, inspiring interviews with entertaining game and quiz segments.
As these splendid reflections indicate, Brombert has achieved a luminous contemplative style for his "trains of thought".
This inspiring book features luminous portraits of celebrated artists and their personal thoughts about what the arts mean to them and to our society as a whole.
The Irish origins of the phrase won't surprise anyone who's stood on windswept Donegal cliffs or watched dolphins off the Sheep's Head peninsula, when thought falls away and only a luminous quality remains.
I get sunburned if I stand too close to a TV playing Neighbours so the thought of being trapped in a luminous coffin specifically designed to slowly cook my skin sounds like a well-lit hell on earth.
Along even more of a world-beat track, there's "I'll Sing for You," the tragic story of the Mali pop-song hero KarKar, a swivel-hipped rocker with luminous dark skin, whose growth as a political thinker sparked thoughts of independence in his people.
These portraits, several of which are in the show, provoke the persistent question: if his sitters can't stay awake for the painter, why should we It is a thought that never intrudes when looking at his luminous variations on the theme of the cherry tree.
