Sentence examples for were almost luminous from inspiring English sources

Ungaro's were almost luminous.

After passing through a stand of paper birches that were almost luminous in the dripping forest, we reached a gushing waterfall at Mile 2.5.

All have an intensity of colour that is almost luminous, and will last through to the first frosts.

When Tatiana appears to have betrayed him – and Rosa Klebb is about to kick him with her dagger-boot – Connery's face is almost luminous with anger.

It was an era when runway divas like Gisele Bundchen, all screen-siren contours and luminous cheeks, were almost an anomaly in an industry dominated by raw, quirky beauties -- the likes of Stella Tennant and Eleonora Bose.

At the entrance of the trail where it became forest, were beautiful, almost luminous red flowers -- I don't remember what kind.

She finds it amusing that she is praised for her great beauty, which is almost invariably described as "luminous" or "incandescent".

From the water, the city is almost always captivating: the luminous green breast of Carl Schurz Park dipping down to the East River below Gracie Mansion; Battery Park City climbing toward the World Trade Center towers; the Staten Island Ferry terminal pilings groaning against the weight of the boats; the water below the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge butter-colored in late afternoon light.

It's been almost a decade since once-luminous investigative journalist Gary Webb extinguished his own life.

Although we are used to thinking of supernovae primarily as luminous visible events, the electromagnetic radiation they produce is almost a minor side-effect of the explosion.

Our sample involves luminous quasars at intermediate redshift for which CaII observations are almost nonexistent.