Literary notes about lambency (AI summary)
In literary works, "lambency" is often employed to evoke a delicate, shimmering light or aura that lends a mystical quality to the scene. It can describe a subtle glow clinging to natural features, such as a cliffside [1], or imbue a sense of anticipation with a dark, enigmatic radiance [2]. Authors also use it to highlight refined brilliance and sensuous qualities in artistic expressions [3], while contrasting its clarity with the murkiness of fading hues [4]. Additionally, "lambency" captures both the ethereal glow of celestial phenomena [5][6] and the intrinsic allure of presence and mystery, as seen in figurative portrayals of character and atmosphere [7][8]. Its versatile imagery extends to the depiction of warm, saffron-hued spaces that evoke intimacy and beauty [9].
- A faint lambency still clung to the cliff.
— from The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt - Still there remained a dark lambency of anticipation.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence - It has none of the brilliant Orientalism of Balakirew and Cui, none of Rimsky-Korsakoff's soft felicity and lambency and light sensuousness.
— from Musical Portraits : Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld - [377] ; otherwise instead of the clear lambency of colour we shall get nothing but a muddy residuum.
— from The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1 (of 4)Hegel's Aesthetik by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - A hundred feet away the Shining One pulsed and spiralled in its evilly glorious lambency of sparkling plumes.
— from The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt - He wanted leisure to see the rhapsody of every small movement under the lambency of both sun and moon.
— from Corpus of a Siam Mosquito by Steven David Justin Sills - They were both rayless and strangely—lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness.
— from The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt - Eddring moved forward impetuously, feeling all the thrill of her presence; all the lambency of woman, planet-like, far-off, mysterious.
— from The Law of the Land Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel by Emerson Hough - At first all that I could see was a space filled with the saffron lambency.
— from The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
