Literary notes about dazzling (AI summary)
The word dazzling is frequently used to evoke a sensory overload that can be both literal and metaphorical. It describes blinding, almost otherworldly light—whether in natural settings, like the intense white bands across a horizon or shimmering glacial walls [1, 2], or in crafted scenes that capture the brilliance of ideas and beauty [3, 4]. Some authors employ dazzling to underscore the seductive power of appearance or opportunity, while others use it to paint landscapes and moments with an almost overwhelming radiance that both illuminates and confounds the mind [5, 6].
- In the atmosphere towards the southern horizon stretched a white dazzling band.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne - We were fully afloat, as I have said; but on both sides of the Nautilus , about ten meters away, there rose dazzling walls of ice.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - It’s the most dazzling idea ’at ever a man struck.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois - She was less dazzling in reality, but, on the other hand, there was something fresh and seductive in the living woman which was not in the portrait.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - Cosette, both at the mayor’s office and at church, was dazzling and touching.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
