Sentence examples for to be luminous from inspiring English sources

"The whole surface wants to be luminous," she said.

How the light switch gets wired to the bulb, how the bulb got engineered to be luminous — all that is an almost miraculously complex consequence of human ingenuity.

Their pictures tend to be luminous, as though the subjects were lit from within, and to feature odd backgrounds, stark contrasts, and rich color.

Of the three or four species of the ostracod genus Vargula (also known as Cypridina) known to be luminous, the most famous is V. hilgendorfii (or C. hilgendorfii), found in the coastal waters and sands of Japan.

It isn't easy to imbue the megalomaniacal Agamemnon with shading or a human grasp of choice, and Christopher McHale does not, though the unexpected reality of having a daughter who is supposed to be luminous but is really dreary, should work in the character's favor.

We are invited to be luminous, shimmering, beautiful angels; to attend not to the needs of our bodies, but the needs of our hearts; the need to sing and to dance and to hug and to love.

The result, it seems to me, is luminous and a sort of landmark.

CfA astronomer Junko Ueda is a member of a team of fifteen astronomers who used the ALMA submillimeter telescope facility, with its superb spatial imaging capabilities, to study the outflow in the luminous galaxy NGC6240, known to be a luminous merger in its late stages.

It just won't work for the president to be a luminous savior alone on the stage in this campaign.

Visual galactic luminosities show similar spreads among the three types, but the irregulars tend to be less luminous.

George Orwell famously said that a writer should be as a pane of glass; how I longed for De Waal's prose to take on the virtues of the porcelain he admires: to be translucent, luminous, white.