Martin Seligman

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.

American Psychologist

Mike Posner

How can a song all about struggling with the afterglow of fame thrust someone into fame? How can a lyric like, 'I'm just a singer who already blew his shot,' give a singer another shot? I don't know... but it's funny.

American Musician

Ariel Gore

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

American Journalist

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Bob Graham

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

American Politician

Ned Rorem

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

American Composer

Often found in literature or poetry to evoke a tranquil, serene scene or moment.

Poetic Use

Can be used to describe romantic settings, implying a sense of intimacy.

Romantic Context

Use 'afterglow' to create a visual picture with emotional impact in descriptive writing.

Visual Imagery

'Afterglow' metaphorically extends the warmth of a positive experience, emotionally.

Metaphoric Feeling

It captures the sustained joy or pride that follows a success or achievement.

Success and Elation

Use it when talking about how people feel after a positive interaction or event.

Positive Reactions

Associated with scientific events or observations, often in physics or chemistry.

Scientific Phenomenon

Used in a technical context, it can describe a measurable, observable effect.

Technical Term

Refers to light that stays visible after the source is gone, not an immediate disappearance.

Lingered Light

 to provide enough gravity to hold them together. From what we can see, they ought to fly apart, but they don't. So there must be stuff there that we can't see. We call that stuff dark matter. The best evidence for dark matter today comes from measurements of something called the cosmic microwave background, the afterglow of the Big Bang,

Dark matter: The matter...

 questions for you number one if the universe lasts for ten to the ten to the hundred twenty years why are we born in the first fourteen billion years of it in the warm comfortable afterglow of the Big Bang why aren't we in empty space you might say well there's nothing there to be living but that's not right you

Distant time and the...

 and here's how they found it. Those waves have long since faded. If you go for a walk, you don't wiggle. Those gravitational waves in the structure of space are totally invisible for all practical purposes. But early on, when the universe was making that last afterglow, the gravitational waves

Allan Adams: The...

 but we'll never see them, because the Big Bang itself is obscured by its own afterglow. With gravitational waves, we should be able to see all the way back to the beginning. Perhaps most importantly, I'm positive that there are things out there

What the discovery of...

 would wake up in the afterglow of these false dreams and then I would kind of come to and I would always feel a little ripped off by the reality of my circumstances versus what was happening in my dream world there is however some

The "Joy" of "Upside...

 sense of how far away we are as we move out the light from these distant galaxies have taken so long we're essentially backing up into the path we back so far up we're finally seeing a containment around us the afterglow of

A 3D atlas of the...

 and then finally you see a faint, fading afterglow, and it's the afterglow of the Big Bang. Hugh We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.

The year in ideas: TED...

 down below chasing the afterglow we won't have everything do so you tell us we're free

Spectacular, glorious,...

 an afterglow of moon dust for the forests other diners