Tana French

Donna Tartt blows me away - that impeccable writing, so rich you could eat it and so luminous that it lights up the whole room, and the way she brings her characters to life so completely and in such fine detail that you know them as intimately as your dearest friends.

Irish Novelist

Rebecca Harding Davis

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

American Author

Lucy Larcom

Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.

American Poet

Hans Hofmann

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

German Artist

Victor Hugo

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

French Author

Anat Cohen

To me, music is a luminous experience. Whenever I'm immersed in it, life lights up for me, no matter what else is going on.

American Musician

Nikos Kazantzakis

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

Greek Writer

Ethel Barrymore

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

American Actress

Isadora Duncan

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

American Dancer

Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

French Artist

Use 'luminous' to describe things that literally give off light or seem bright.

Visual Brightness

Things described as 'luminous' can seem important or demand attention.

Highlight Importance

'Luminous' can be used metaphorically to describe something that stands out for its brilliance.

Metaphorical Use

'Luminous' suggests clear, easy to grasp or brilliant thought in academic contexts.

Clarity in Thought

Describing ideas or thoughts as 'luminous' praises them as smart or insightful.

Intellectual Brightness

Use 'luminous' to describe skin that looks healthy and has a natural glow.

Healthy Glow

'Luminous' is often used to suggest a youthful, vibrant appearance of someone.

Youthful Appearance

 It was designed to orbit the earth and look far beyond our solar system to seek out the coldest stars and the most luminous galaxies. And it did that very well for its designed lifetime of seven months. But today, six years later, it's still going. We've repurposed it to discover and study asteroids.

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 This is what they're most famed for. They have this luminous lure that hangs over the top of their head, which is really characteristic and it's basically this fleshy lump which has lots of bacteria in it, which is able to illuminate and then that attracts in all their prey and they're able to

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 because she's the most luminous, curious person I've ever met. I asked her what she wants to do next and she said, "I want to go to college and travel and eat weird foods like octopus that I've never tasted before and come visit you in New York and go camping, but I'm scared of bugs,

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 we can calculate their luminosity by measuring the period of this cycle, with more luminous stars changing more slowly. By comparing the light we observe from these stars to the intrinsic brightness we've calculated this way, we can tell how far away they are.

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 it gravitates just like visible matter does so what we call visible matter or luminous matter like the stuff like everyday life right but it doesn't seem to interact through any of the other forces right so it interacts through gravity but we have not so far

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 Tralfamadorians, the aliens who crop up in many of his books, see all moments at once. They “can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti.” But although they can see all of time,

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 filled with luminous creatures, living in dark waters that average two miles deep. They flash, and sparkle, and glow with their own living light. There are still places in the sea as pristine as I knew as a child.

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 all blinking together in stunning synchrony. These luminous landscapes still fill me with wonder, and they keep me connected to the magic of the natural world. And I find it amazing that they're created

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 currents up back whales pass through these waters each year migrating from polar feeding grounds these waters are also known to legions of luminous deep-sea creatures and

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 When we look at the night sky, we see a vast cosmos filled with stars and galaxies and dust, a cosmos teeming with luminous phenomena.