All 14 Uses
luminous
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A Soldier of the Great War
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- They passed drop-offs where the milkwhite shoulder of the road became a luminous ramp into an attractive void of weightlessness and rapture.†
Chpt 1
- They ride upon his back, though they are upright and uncongealed, and perhaps if you and your gracious father are moons that sail and dip in the rainbow lines of Saturn's rings, I am but a true, but a proud tree, on the mountain of the moon, standing upright in the cool light of the blessed protector, whose cloak of silk like a luminous mantle is draped across the stars, and from the dog that rides in the godly sea of space, this exaltedness runs in train, trying to lap its blessed luminous sap.†
Chpt 2
- They ride upon his back, though they are upright and uncongealed, and perhaps if you and your gracious father are moons that sail and dip in the rainbow lines of Saturn's rings, I am but a true, but a proud tree, on the mountain of the moon, standing upright in the cool light of the blessed protector, whose cloak of silk like a luminous mantle is draped across the stars, and from the dog that rides in the godly sea of space, this exaltedness runs in train, trying to lap its blessed luminous sap.†
Chpt 2
- Orfeo had begun to describe in spectacular detail the "gracious luminous sap that falls like the blood of the Cross from the tree in the valley of the bonewhite mountains that circle the moon," when Alessandro produced from his vest pocket the beautiful fountain pen with which he wrote anything and everything-his essays on aesthetics, his departmental examinations, letters declaring love to married women in Bologna who dared not answer, summaries of account, instructions for feeding his horse, epistles (also never answered) to the prime minister of Italy.†
Chpt 2
- "Tell me, if scribes value consistency so much," Alessandro interrupted, to stanch the monologue before Orfeo got on to the luminous sap, "then why not get one of those new machines, typewriters, and every letter will be exactly the same?"†
Chpt 2
- My orders would for a time have glowed white, and luminously reformed the world.†
Chpt 2 *
- These had red underbellies, or gold, and were grouped together in long luminous strings like golden willow branches.†
Chpt 5
- From the cattle boat these lines had looked like luminous golden cables braided across the fields.†
Chpt 6
- Every soldier could look up at the light as it tracked across the empty heights of the long galleries in a bright clockwork, streaming through the windows in luminous beams that struck the agitated dust.†
Chpt 6
- Instead, they managed, by lying on their backs and moving their eyes, to float about as if they were underwater side by side with luminous saints and infants swaddled in brilliant white.†
Chpt 8
- BEYOND RAVENNA, in a marsh that stretched to a fully circular horizon, the train rocketed from the fog into a dome of bright blue in which every color was concentrated and luminous, whether of the grasses, the shimmering silver channels between them, or the fat sheepish clouds overhead.†
Chpt 9
- The moon had risen, gigantic and full, as if to collide with the domes of Santa Maria della Salute, but it cleared them and it floated in the luminous air as weightless as a song.†
Chpt 9
- The souls, too, were visible as they ascended, and the luminous host could be seen from a great distance away as it moved in the vast and terrible spaces along the line.†
Chpt 9
- Alessandro squinted at it, having saved his eyes all his life to see now that its surface was like a pocket in the waves under a high wind, swirling in contradiction and counterpoint within an arc as luminous and clear as crystal.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, luminous can mean beautiful, inspiring, or beautifully clear and understandable.