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Literary notes about glaring (AI summary)

In literature, “glaring” is a versatile adjective that conveys both the literal intensity of light and the metaphorical force of emotion or conspicuousness. Authors use it to describe harsh, almost blinding brightness—as in references to the sun or a fire burning vividly on a character’s face [1, 2, 3]—and to illustrate pointed, often hostile stares that communicate anger, defiance, or torment [4, 5, 6]. Moreover, the term is employed to underscore the obviousness of a flaw or inconsistency, thereby emphasizing its impact on the narrative [7, 8, 9]. Whether highlighting the physical environment or the inner states of characters, “glaring” operates as a powerful descriptor that captures both visual intensity and deep emotional undercurrents.
  1. The glaring fire burned her face; but icy whiffs seemed to glide down her back and to penetrate between her skin and her underclothing.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  2. I woke with a burning head and the sun glaring in my face.
    — from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
  3. A glaring fire wine-tinted the waters of the river.
    — from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane
  4. And they all made a fierce fight over one poor wretch, glaring evilly at one another with furious eyes and fighting equally with claws and hands.
    — from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod
  5. “What have you done?” he hissed, glaring at her as though he would like to annihilate her on the spot.
    — from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. ‘Is he come back, then?’ asked the hermit, glaring like a hungry wolf.
    — from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  7. As to the character of Adams, as it is the most glaring in the whole, so I conceive it is not to be found in any book now extant.
    — from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding
  8. He pointed to the tragic and glaring consistency of the facts.
    — from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. But I was then so stupid that I saw not that even which was glaring to everybody.
    — from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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