Sentence examples for of lustre from inspiring English sources

Thus fusion may give rise to a sensation of lustre.

More important was the Egyptian invention of lustre painting.

But the counterpoint harmonies add a touch of lustre, and there's no denying it kick-starts the album smartly.

For one thing, even rebels would have trouble finding a market for ill-gotten gemstones at present.Besides, the diamonds' recent lack of lustre may bring unexpected benefits.

The kind and intensity of lustre is the same for crystal faces of like symmetry but may be different on those with different symmetry.

Holmes carried with him a negative tow thereafter, as if he were responsible for the lack of lustre in the post-Ali era.

It does not even have a fraction of the lustre of Formula One's constructors' championship.

Her voice may have lost some of the lustre of a decade ago, but she still possesses unrivalled technique and intoxicating stage presence.

Plagued by periodic Marīnid invasions, the Ḥafṣid kingdom regained some of the lustre of al-Mustanṣir's era under Abū al-ʿAbbās (1370 94), who managed to pacify the country, though Ḥafṣid pirate activity continued to threaten international relations.

If one wanted pictures there were pictures, as large, I seem to remember, as the side of a house, and of a beauty of colour and lustre of surface that I was never afterward to see surpassed.

She writes of the protective architecture of the skylark's nest, of the ancient names of wild flowers, of the ravishing lustre of a kingfisher's wing - "a living light rather than a colour".