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Literary notes about Radiant (AI summary)

Writers use radiant to evoke both tangible brilliance and an inner luminescence that infuses characters and settings with a sense of divinity or emotional warmth. In some works, it describes physical brightness—a palace, a dawn, or a celestial orb casting light upon everything in its path—as seen when an altar is celebrated for its resplendence [1] or the rising sun heralds a new day [2, 3]. In other narratives, the word marks the inner glow of joy, transformation, or heroic vigor; characters are described as radiant when overwhelmed by delight or honor [4, 5, 6]. This versatile term, therefore, bridges the gap between the external and internal, underscoring moments of both sublime natural beauty and the profound light of the human spirit [7, 6].
  1. “Radiant and resplendent is the altar, wide is the great door, the air is the vehicle of the holy and divine words that will spring from my mouth!
    — from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
  2. So passed in pleasing dialogue away The night; then down to short repose they lay; Till radiant rose the messenger of day.
    — from The Odyssey by Homer
  3. The radiant orb cleared the eastern horizon.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  4. He encountered that face radiant as a seraph’s; those dark eyes flashing with the inspiration of the martyr.
    — from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli
  5. “I will marry in the simplest, most ordinary way and be radiant with happiness.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  6. Thus radiant in his glory showed King Ráma as he homeward rode, In power and might unparalleled.
    — from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
  7. A sudden Star, it shot thro' liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
    — from The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

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