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The camera loves the luminous actress, whose elfish eyes and Titian hair evoke the spark beneath her calm exterior.
Space has to be carved out and carefully wrapped to create a luminous, inward-looking void, augmented by carefully framed views of the townscape.
He was hunting for greens when he became aware of the dark shape outlined against the shifting, luminous background.
This luminous paint was applied to watch dials, light switches, and even to the costumes of nightclub dancers.
The darkness surrendered to light, midnight blue giving way to resplendent golds and luminous pinks.
Both dark nebulas and luminous nebulas are considered likely sites for the processes of dust-cloud condensation and the formation of new stars.
A glass roof links the hitherto separate building with the main volumes to form a luminous entrance galleria.
Still the luminous Indian beauty was posing for assorted media camerapersons, TV channels included.
Similarly Sirius, the most luminous star in all the heavens, actually has a faint companion.
A large oculus brings a cylinder of light down into the main library, bathing the interior in a softly luminous glow.
It returns the heart and mind to its birthright, naturally luminous and free.
For the Turkana, the beneficent god Akuj is white and luminous, whereas the bad spirit called Ekipe is black or red.
There is one camera in the south west of England that is painted with luminous strips.
At twilight, when neon store signs and traffic lights begin to glow, wet asphalt becomes a luminous billboard of color.
This result supports the interpretation of H2155 304 as a highly luminous BL Lac object.
The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed.
I could see him clearly through his luminous bluish mist, his blue eyes watching me with worry.
He was encased in a huge padded jacket topped with luminous orange bobble hat.
At the far end, this dimly lit corridor compresses itself so that your emergence into a luminous skylit dining room is all the more striking.
The luminous, newly sprouted grass fields reminded her of the paddies of tender rice shoots covering the lowland Kampuchean countryside.
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One side wall receptacle for curling iron, shaving mug and luminous radiator.
Perhaps a dark ring of absorptive or occulting matter encircles the nebula in nearly the same plane with the luminous whorls.
Because blue glass obstructs many of the luminous rays, but it is perfectly transparent to actinism.
Before the days of aseptic and antiseptic surgery, wounds frequently became infected with luminous bacteria and glowed at night.
It was one of those evenings, serenely luminous, amply and atmospherically still, when the river bend was at its best.
They are generally surrounded by an aureola known as the penumbra, and sensibly less luminous than the other portions of the orb.
In the night the aurora australis made a very brilliant and luminous appearance.
In the next stage this material is largely collected in a luminous and hazy sphere, as we find in the nebula in Canes Venatici.
In the corpuscular theory we have luminous particles emitted by luminous bodies.
I have a suspicion that, in their own depths, deep-sea fishes are not luminous.
On the north lay the river elan and on the south the steep side of a mountain towered up against the luminous sky.
The radiation of light is its emission in rays from the surface of a luminous body.
In the case of animals with extracellular luminescence we may speak of luminous secretions and true luminous glands.
Its solution bends the luminous rays in circumpolarisation to the right, whereas grape and fecula sugars bend it to the left.
Rumford and also fresnel devised multiple-wick burners, thus increasing the luminous intensity.
Farther on they came suddenly upon a spectrally luminous figure just in their path.
In the centre of a spiral nebula is seen a mass both more luminous and more resolvable than the rest.
The smoke wreaths rolled around it, but it shone out luminous and starlike.
Many animals with intracellular luminescence have quite complicated luminous organs.
Pierantoni has considered the granules to be symbiotic luminous bacteria, but this is certainly not the case.
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