Great brightness

Usage examples of brilliance.

A spew of fire-red brilliance came suddenly from the very center of it, where lurked the accretion disk.

Supplied by acetylene, this instrument of illumination brought a strange brilliance throughout the living room.

And King Bester, comfortable in the cramped warrens of the city, trembled under the star-filled sky with its cold brilliance.

Tuckwell, I felt remorse scatter in instrumental brilliance, bravura trills, shakes, flourishes, demisemiquavers.

The faded magnificence of its coloured patches had returned to their initial, burnished brilliance.

My sweetheart was above the ordinary height, her hair was a fine golden colour, and her regular features, despite the brilliance of her eyes, expressed candour and modesty.

I did not stop, but went up the steps and was received with the usual hospitality, and on their expressing some wonder as to the unusual brilliance of my attire I explained the circumstances of the case.

Now he began to wonder whether it might in fact be the other way around, and the trees actually some darker, closer part of this overarching brilliance that hurt his eyes.

If the Montegeau stones were recut to maximize brilliance, it would increase their value by half, at least.

The scalloped line of colors flowed down the edge of the rear wings as it did the frontred-violet, white, purple, and reddish brown tracing the edge of all his wings downward past the brilliance of pink and orange to spill on long curved tails so that that last grace of wing was thick with dark stripes of color.

But what he remembered as a delightful amusement park had been replaced by a huge Screamer isolation institute that reared into the night sky and gleamed in the antiseptic brilliance of its own illumination.

They passed through the gaudy brilliance of Times Square, and then one of the men said something to the driver and the car turned aside into the narrower crosstown streets and began a series of well-calculated maneuvers, which a skillful tail might follow but only at the price of betraying himself.

As for Spennie, the brilliance of his happy grin dazzled all beholders.

Liath staggered at its brilliance, yet within the archway of leaping flames shadows writhed.

Quickly, he scanned the tracks beneath him, located the yellow warning stapes and the bright clean rail, and thrust his foot beneath the shoe guard as the world dissolved in a flash of miraculous brilliance.