But Kerl's nasal tone and lumbering stage manner are persistent weaknesses, for which even Kampe's luminous presence cannot quite compensate.
But in a protected inlet called Eastern Hole Bay, just over the edge of Beacon Point, the sea is clear and luminous if never quite violet — one moment breaking opaline, the next an aqueous sapphire.
Made from arduinos, LED strips, plastic canvas, and cellophane, the luminous headpiece is quite stunning and its eventual fade is sobering.
She did not dress, she only wore clothes, which were often unnecessarily unbecoming; she had soft and abundant hair and regular features, but the beauty of her face lay in brown and very luminous eyes, which quite unconsciously she lifted upwards as she spoke on any matter for which she cared.
In Cinderella, dressed in Sandy Powell's luminous costumes, she looks quite remarkable, commanding the classic ballroom scene in a gown fit for a Disney princess (made up, in case you're interested, of more than a dozen layers of gossamer-fine silk in different shades of pale blue, turquoise, and lavender).
At 11 μm it is not clear what kind of objects are the most luminous because each group spans quite a wide range of luminosity.
Like 19th century archaeologists suddenly gaining the secret of hieroglyphics, astronomers for the first time have precisely measured the size, mass, and temperature of not one but two elusive brown dwarfs--hot, luminous objects that are not quite stars but are too large to be planets.
That is quite clear in certain squids, who secrete a luminous cloud to confuse an enemy and make an escape, and in many deep-sea fishes who dangle luminous lures to attract prey or who show light organs to disguise their form from enemies, frighten predators, or simply light the way in the darkness of the ocean deeps.
It's an elegant idea, intelligently executed, but for all its luminous, incendiary imagery, Goldstein's novel remains quite cold.
The behavior of the combustion pressures and luminous intensities plotted in Figure 7 became quite different after the maximum around 20 CAD ATDC.
Ms. Be's Eurydice has a luminous beauty that makes Orpheus's quick fall quite believable, and her singing is equally spellbinding.
