Word: lambent
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Tharon Musser has provided lovely lambent lighting, though its technical execution is distractingly jerky. At one point, taking a cue from Titania's words--"The moon methinks looks with a wat'ry eye;/ And when she weeps, weeps every little flower"--she has all the pendent vegetation come alive with tiny lachrymal lights, while the fairies march out carrying hand torches. A beautiful way to end the show's first half...
...week at the age of 84, in the Washington Square studio where he had lived for the past 54 years, he left a half-century-long portrait of the workaday face of America. He had captured it with all the homely honesty of a foursquare realist-but in the lambent light of a brooding romantic who saw beauty in the humblest barber pole...
...officer's manner lapses into a fair imitation of Jack Benny, as when he stands on the battlements with dervishes tumbling in on all sides and stiffly observes: "Well! Here we are!" By contrast, Olivier's Mahdi is a small masterpiece of single-minded religious insanity-the lambent black eyes never blinking, the measured voice conjuring up holy terrors from his private heart of darkness...
David Dubinsky, L.H.D., retired president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. His prophetic fury in a righteous cause is as legendary and as potent as a summer storm, a whirlwind followed by lambent sunshine...
JAKE: Oh, the drama of it all! From the bottomless pit of my heart, I will urge each and everybody I know to see this lambent, coruscating, sinewy, Proustian, visually exacerbating film. All it needs to be perfect is Rita Tushingham...