The husband appeared of a middle age, between manhood and youth: from his eyes darted forth sparkling light derived from the wisdom of love; by virtue of which light his face was radiant from its inmost ground; and in consequence of such radiance the surface of his skin had a kind of refulgence, whereby his whole face was one resplendent comeliness. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
The refulgence of Obama's oratory, with its passages of re-moralizing lyricism, is a political and even a cultural gain. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I will leave you to bathe in the refulgence of each other's admiration. ❋ Unknown (2009)
SHE is the refulgence of eternal Light, a spotless mirror of the power of God. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For if self-knowledge is to be construed as a sort of perception of inner states or events that are (by the special faculty of introspection or by the “refulgence” of consciousness) “visible” to me but not to others, then Cartesianism, though seeming to leave knowledge of our own minds intact, instead presents an untenable picture of what this “knowledge” can be. ❋ Tanney, Julia (2007)
Yet she, from step to step, from distress to distress, to maintain her superiority; and, like the sun, to break out upon me with the greater refulgence for the clouds that I had contrived to cast about her! — ❋ Unknown (2006)
Out, far out at the forefront of the ship, a deep purple refulgence appeared in front of the center of the great Caplis generator. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2005)
And while he dozed he dreamed that he saw the figure of a woman standing in darkness, from whose face and form came a misty refulgence, such as steals out into the dusk from white campion flowers along summer hedgerows. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The various lanterns, above and below, vied in refulgence. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Then, at night, as he lay staring before him, this feeling became a sudden refulgence, which lighted him through all the dark hours, only to be reorselessly extinguished by daylight. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The sun was getting low; the foliage of the trees in the opposite gardens was black, with copper edges, against the refulgence of the sky. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But in the refulgence of the present hour her past life, so distinct until then, faded away completely, and she almost doubted having lived it. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Had not James evinced a deficiency of poetic artifice, we might almost have suspected that these lowerings of gloomy reflection were meant as preparative to the brightest scene of his story; and to contrast with that refulgence of light and loveliness, that exhilarating accompaniment of bird and song, and foliage and flower, and all the revel of the year, with which he ushers in the lady of his heart. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The Brights illuminating Twenty-Four Tunnel glowed softly all around, bathing her in their reassuring refulgence. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2002)
Suddenly, a powerful, all-encompassing, golden refulgence appeared directly above her, while a warm voice not to be argued with boomed the length and breadth of the chamber. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2002)
refulgence is a [must] for [outstanding] [personality] ❋ Hitesh Amesar (2007)
