lambent

ADJECTIVE
  1. softly bright or radiant
    lambent tongues of flame
    the lucent moon
    a house aglow with lights
    a sky luminous with stars
    glowing embers
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How To Use lambent In A Sentence

  • Dominguez's tattered adorableness at the beginning, the way she warbles about what Glen Campbell would call the dreams of an everyday housewife, her lambent and then incandescent love for Seymour, all this she conveys with passion and conviction. James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton
  • Palfi bejewels his film with lambent imagery and perfectly framed moments that threaten to overwhelm you with their simplicity.
  • The mood is one of hope, lambent optimism for the future, and the streets are busy: wares, from hammocks to human hair brushes to hawksbill turtle shells, are being hawked with zest; horse-drawn buggies spindle in and about the cobblestone streets; children are skylarking in the alleys. Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time
  • Her eyes were the only note of color in her body, brilliant and arterial red; the rising crescent moon of Ishtar sat lambent on her brow.
  • Outside it's the close of a lambent spring afternoon, a clarity of light still falling on the residential street.
  • Clouds of smoke issue from the front, followed by a long tongue of lambent flame that seems to encircle the mizen-mast. The Survivors of the Chancellor
  • He's such a pseud, with his talk of 'lambent harmonies' and 'melting arpeggios'.
  • He gazes with growing fear and wonder at the lambent pattern of particle tracks, and struggles to absorb the full implications. Archive 2009-05-01
  • In one or two instances there has appeared, when the light was totally excluded, a faint lambent flame bickering over them.
  • His expression altered subtly, his gaze becoming both lambent and predatory. My Seduction
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