Example sentences for: luminous

How can you use “luminous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Star-Spangled Bonds strings a series of luminous limnings aimed straight at the heart.

  • He was apparently drawn to women who specialized in "trouser roles"--three are on display in the exhibition, including a particularly intense ambrotype (a cheaper and less luminous form of daguerreotype) of Felicita Vestvali, a lesbian who often appeared as Hamlet.

  • Its principal treasure, though of contested provenance, is Leonardo da Vinci’s luminous Portrait of a Musician (1485), unfinished but at the same time the best preserved of the master’s few surviving works.

  • In the grandiose interior, the luminous 12th- and 13th-century mosaics of the nave and apse depict the complete cycle of the Old Testament, replete with a 66-ft high Christ Pantocrator with saints, while the aisle mosaics narrate the miracles of Jesus.

  • This is, to be sure, a super-subtle distinction; but these bits and pieces of Shakespearean usage can make a luminous difference both in reading and in performance.


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