radiance
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- n the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
- n the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
- n an attractive combination of good health and happiness
the radiance of her countenance
- But what Garbo and Bettie Page both had was It a radiance, a mystery of personality, that transcends technique and passeth understanding.
- Then there's Meg Ryan, with a radiance that neither forbids nor threatens.
- Like Jean Genet, Burroughs trafficks in the utmost degradations, but he doesn't go to them looking for unsuspected sources of radiance.