Sentence examples for lustre from from inspiring English sources

Elliott proves what Shaw knew: that saints gain in lustre from the quality of their adversaries.

The emperor's name is usually enshrined in a Persian couplet to the effect that the metal of the coins acquires added lustre from bearing the emperor's name.

The ability to transmit light is important for statuary marble, which achieves its lustre from light penetrating from about 12.7 to 38 mm (0.5 to 1.5 inches) from where it is reflected at the surfaces of deeper lying crystals.

But even the marbles, for most of their modern history, gained authority and lustre from the fact that they were on show not in a provincial capital such as Athens, but a world city: London.

The fetchGWI results on the SFS (a commercial implementation of LUSTRE from Cluster file systems, inc., http://www.lustre.org/.) filesystem (Fig. 5) were computed on a Linux workstation with Intel Itanium2 processors running at 1.3 GHz, 4 GB RAM, and an 8 TB SFS filesystem attached through an InfiniBand network.

The lustre ranges from subvitreous to dull.

The black-lipped pearl oyster from the South Pacific secretes a desirably large, iridescent sphere that has a metallic lustre ranging from gunmetal-gray to onyx, with tinges of blue, violet, rose, or green.

Recently, though, bitcoin, the virtual currency, has been stealing some of gold's speculative lustre, with everybody from Maltese hedge funds to the Winklevoss brothers piling in.

Is there not a danger that she may delay her final retirement until all the lustre has gone from her game?

Is Williams' hit destined to lose its lustre when, years from now, we look back on the songs that mattered most in 2014?

Vanadinite may be transparent, translucent or opaque, and its lustre can range from resinous to adamantine.