All 11 Uses of
luminous
in
The Fountainhead
- It was a large, bare room, made luminous by the clean glow of whitewash.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- The sky was growing dark and luminous as blue-green glass; the buildings looked like clouds condensed on the glass, gray-blue clouds frozen for an instant in straight angles and vertical shafts, with the sunset caught in the spires….†
Chpt 1.8
- And in that heightened state of luminous vision, his head nodding over a glass but his mind steady, he told himself that he had nothing to regret; he had done what anyone would have done; Catherine had said it, he was selfish; everybody was selfish; it was not a pretty thing, to be selfish, but he was not alone in it; he had merely been luckier than most; he had been, because he was better than most; he felt fine; he hoped the useless questions would never come back to him again; every…†
Chpt 1.15
- The leaves hung without motion against a sky of polished lemon yellow; its luminous pallor emphasized that its light was failing.†
Chpt 2.1
- Keating began, but Toohey smiled with a luminous sort of kindliness.†
Chpt 2.3
- The place lay deserted, cut off from the world, dissolved in darkness; but the sky glowed, too luminous for the night below, as if the light had remained past the normal hour, in announcement of the coming spring.†
Chpt 2.11
- The corners blurred, gathering darkness; the window remained luminous, evening light rising from the earth.†
Chpt 3.5
- Wynand's eyes seemed whiter than usual, as if the blue had ebbed from the iris, two white ovals, luminous on his face.†
Chpt 4.3
- Her voice had a luminous simplicity; she was being carried along, unresisting, any personal reaction would be superfluous, even pain or fear.†
Chpt 4.4
- She walked down the hill and she found relief in the unnatural stillness of the earth around her, the stillness of full light without sun, of leaves without motion, of a luminous, waiting silence.†
Chpt 4.9
- Then he saw the fit of fury he had expected for days and had thought safely sidetracked—the blue irises vanishing in a white smear, the blind, luminous eyeballs in a face that was all cavities, the trembling hands.†
Chpt 4.15
Definition:
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(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)