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Example sentences for "luminousness"

Lexicographically close words:
luminis; luminosities; luminosity; luminous; luminously; lumo; lump; lumpe; lumped; lumpers
  1. As a matter of course, when any light was made the luminousness of the robe was drowned, and she appeared in simply a white costume.

  2. As the light was turned on the luminousness disappeared, and we beheld a beautiful young lady clothed in a dazzling white costume.

  3. He placed it in the thin streak of daylight, and its luminousness was almost immediately restored.

  4. I believe the early skies of Raffaelle owe their luminousness more to their untraceable and subtile gradation than to inherent quality of hue.

  5. To Bethlehem, where went the woman whose blue robe was bordered with a glow of fair luminousness and whose face, like an uplifted lily, softly shone.

  6. At times there were those who spoke under their breath to one another of some wonder of light in them, some strange luminousness which was not earthly.

  7. Look, for instance, at those pieces of darkness in the Milky Way,' he went on, pointing with his finger to where the galaxy stretched across over their heads with the luminousness of a frosted web.

  8. It appeared dark, for a moment, against the blue sky behind it; then the fleeting cloud which shadowed it passed on, and the face of the column brightened into such luminousness that the sky behind sank to the complexion of a dark foil.

  9. My tongue pressed itself against my teeth; the sacking trembled, and a faint luminousness began to creep through its hempen strands.

  10. A strange luminousness bathed their faces and clothes, beautifying them with light and shadow, carpeting with its soft radiance the rough grey-green grass.

  11. The effects he has sought are luminousness and color.

  12. Those immense expanses of grey undulating uplands need the luminousness of watery sunshine, the colour added by cloud-shadows, and the pearly softness of rising vapours, to rob them of a certain awful grimness.

  13. If in this passage there is not the perfect luminousness of expression we should find in the best modern books, it seems to contain the philosophical theory of motion as unequivocally as any of them.

  14. Not that there was any special brilliancy either--nothing near as sharp as I have seen of keen winter nights, but a curious general luminousness throughout to sight, sense, and soul.

  15. Under the luminousness of real vision, it alone takes possession, takes value.

  16. Then, as the day descended into evening, the autumn trees assumed that wonderful effect of luminousness self-evolved, and the red brick walls that crimson afterglow, which Tuscan twilight takes from singular transparency of atmosphere.

  17. Her resolution shed a certain luminousness over Dora's soul.

  18. With this Dora sat down, and left the bit of moon to shed what luminousness it could over the landscape.

  19. The fall in luminousness was also very striking as far as the green; the blue also suffered, but not so much as the other colours.

  20. Its colours were feeble; but, contrasted with the black ground against which it rested, its luminousness was extraordinary.

  21. When darkness came the king perceived the faint luminousness of his rays: unless he had known of them he would hardly have perceived it.

  22. For some moments’ space the king could distinguish nothing, but soon he became aware of a luminousness over the mid ravine.

  23. Everywhere, in fact, the texts attribute supreme luminousness to Brahman only.

  24. We next take up the point as to the self-luminousness of consciousness (above, p.

  25. If you reply 'luminousness due to the being of the thing itself (i.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "luminousness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    glow; lightness; lucidity; radiance; splendor