NCR plans to turn Radiant into a new business division that is focused hospitality and specialty retail.
Such "off-plan" sales drives have, of course, long been commonplace as developers seek the upfront cash they need to turn radiant, computer-generated images of buildings into real ones.
So often I have seen the dawn come and the light flood over the land and everything turn radiant at once, that word "good" so profoundly affirmed in my soul that I am amazed I should be allowed to witness such a thing.
In contrast, the Arizona sky shone deep-blue, rock formations blazed in an amazing spectrum of earth tones, sunsets glowed brilliant-orange, and cacti turned radiant in the late afternoon, their translucent spines aglow when backlit.
Viola turns "Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty" into a love ballad, and Olivia gets a torch song.
As the last chords die away, the flute twirls weightlessly in mid-air, turned to radiant gold by the sun.
A few clouds catching the waning rays, turning a radiant pinkish orange, purple around the edges, And underneath the predictable trashiness of some leftover summer visitors, weapons merchants on their yachts anchored in the port, there is a subtle spirituality, a sense of peace and inner expansion.
This very general law of physics is verified when one turns the radiant heat towards the skin for rather short periods of time (some seconds) by means of a CO2 laser stimulator with a constant power of radiation.
Thomas Jay Ryan as the deranged intellectual at war with mediocrity seems truly possessed -- by turns, manic, tortured, radiant, finally transcendent.
Beckinsale's radiant, frightening turn is one of complete command; the film works because the ensemble around her rotates with the smoothness of planets at an upscale observatory.
It's a treat to see Ms. Foster, whose persona has always been one of radiant wholesomeness, turn subversively sexy when she dons her French alter ego in "Come Play Wiz Me," a duet with Mr. Esparza, whose manic glint and ingratiating deviltry make him perfect for Hapgood.
