luminous_white colors

Literary analysis:

In literature, "luminous white" is often employed to evoke a sense of ethereal clarity and otherworldly beauty. Authors deploy the term to describe natural phenomena and atmospheric effects—such as in fogs, clouds, or moonlit landscapes—to create a striking contrast between light and darkness ([1], [2], [3], [4]). At the same time, it serves as a means to highlight elements of purity or transformative light, whether in describing a character's flawless skin ([5]) or in emphasizing enigmatic details like the glowing markings on an object or even the pallor of a soul ([6], [7]). This versatile color not only paints vivid, sensory images but also carries symbolic weight, blurring the boundaries between illumination and mystery across varied narrative contexts.

Only between them, clinging to every hollow, lay the thick, luminous white fog.
— from In the Guardianship of God by Flora Annie Webster Steel
A blaze of luminous white had appeared among the trees across the clearing.
— from The Tree of Life by C. L. (Catherine Lucile) Moore
A. A luminous white cloud in the north of the sky at night-time.
— from A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Through the luminous white fog of dawn a silver sun, breasting the house-tops, gleamed very large.
— from Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
Her skin was whiter than ivory—a clear, luminous white.
— from The Return Of The Soul 1896 by Robert Hichens
Over his beardless face, saddened by the pallor of his lips, wandered the ethereal, luminous whiteness of the last agony.
— from Their Son; The Necklace by Eduardo Zamacois
But it was not the pallor of ill-health; it was the pallor of a luminous white soul.
— from As It Was Written: A Jewish Musician's Story by Henry Harland

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