Sentence examples for luminous- from inspiring English sources

This third collection by the Irish poet is full of luminous imagery and sometimes a gentle, almost wistful, touch, as in "Brigie": "When you smile in your sleep / I think of the seal's tail / whispering above the waves, / slipping back again into the deep".

Gascoigne, who was sporting a bizarre, luminous hairstyle which looked like the result of a bet accepted during a stag weekend, collected the ball some way outside the Scotland penalty area before unleashing one of the moments of genius which made him famous in the first place.

Tonight Ida could triumph twice: its luminous black-and-white camerawork has earned it a best cinematography nomination.

In a year of exceptional achievement, one still seems more luminous.

Sethi also adds green chillies to the base for his Lucknawi chicken korma, which gives his sauce a slightly luminous hue.

Chelsea's third-choice striker duly took the ball, looked up at the luminous orange "Drogba Legend" sign, calmly set the ball and finished with the alacrity they had seen so consistently in these parts.

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 read aloud a list of suspect details: did Turner actually welcome patrons into a candlelit antechamber so that when they were released into his studio, the luminous canvases would seem more brilliant?

IN 1983 Christo surrounded 11 islands in Biscayne Bay, off Miami, with 600,000 square metres (6.5m square feet) of luminous pink fabric.

What is a fiction-lover to do?One solution is "Luminous Airplanes" by Paul La Farge, a novel of modest length about a sluggish computer-programmer tasked with clearing out five generations of junk from his deceased grandparents' home.

He was a handy man with a portable iron, and his job was ceaselessly to smooth out the creases in the story.Luminous purple paintPaul and George he knew from school: Paul in his art and English classes, George as a furtive fellow Woodbine-puffer behind the air-raid shelters.