RADIANCE in a Sentence

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For RADIANCE, below is one of 51 sentences:
The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously venerable radiance.

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 Meanings and Examples of RADIANCE
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radiance
 n.  quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  Their radiance casts a gleam of purple over their suite.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
2  It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
3  At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
4  The Bishop alone remained; he filled the whole soul of this wretched man with a magnificent radiance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
5  One overflows with serenity, with gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING
6  The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously venerable radiance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
7  A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
8  The Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black radiance of death.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
9  There, darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, and of gleams full of radiance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
10  The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
11  Youth, even in its sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
12  Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance emitted by that child.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
13  You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
14  Each one of these mysterious lines shone before her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER
15  Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, whiteness, candor, radiance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
Example Sentence:
1  I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire.
2  Then they shone in the liquid lustre of her eyes, which had suddenly acquired a beauty more singular than that of Miss Temple's -- a beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.