All 3 Uses of
luminous
in
Brave New World
- Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble.†
p. 19..8 *
- And suddenly it was luminously clear to the Savage what he must do; it was as though a shutter had been opened, a curtain drawn back.†
p. 210..8
- Seeing them, the Savage made a grimace; but he was to become reconciled to them in course of time; for at night they twinkled gaily with geometrical constellations, or else, flood-lighted, pointed their luminous fingers (with a gesture whose significance nobody in England but the Savage now understood) solemnly towards the plumbless mysteries of heaven.†
p. 245..3
Definition:
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(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)