All 5 Uses of
luminous
in
Heart of Darkness
- In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.†
Chpt 1
- It was difficult to realize his work was not out there in the luminous estuary, but behind him, within the brooding gloom.†
Chpt 1 *
- Not a very enthralling book; but at the first glance you could see there a singleness of intention, an honest concern for the right way of going to work, which made these humble pages, thought out so many years ago, luminous with another than a professional light.†
Chpt 2
- It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes!'†
Chpt 2
- I had to wait in a lofty drawing-room with three long windows from floor to ceiling that were like three luminous and bedraped columns.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)