brightness

• In the distance I saw a glowing patch of brighter blue, barely a spot, but increasing in size with every passing second, and I knew that this brightness was the signal fire of my destination I'm not certain what woke me, but I believe it must have been a lightning strike, for I heard thunder, and lightning forked down the sky, illuminating tracers of rain. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
• As usual, the brightness is almost too much when cranked up to the maximum, where it washes out pretty much any reflections on the glossy display. —  Macworld
• This word in Sanskrit means bright,--brightness or light being one of the most general attributes shared by the various manifestations of the Deity, invoked in the Veda, as Sun, or Sky, or Fire, or Dawn, or Storm. —  Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
• He gazed on the bright vision of sin, on the iridescent waters of pleasure; and did not know that the brightness was a mirage of the burning desert, the iridescence a film of corruption over a stagnant pool The letter from home was his chief stumbling-block. —  St. Winifred's, or The World of School
• We think of Him as a brightness, a fluid, a breath; we cannot even lend to Him as to the Father the face of a man, since on the two occasions that He took to Himself a body, He showed Himself under the likenesses of a dove and of tongues of fire, and these two different aspects do not help to a suggestion of the new appearance He might assume Certainly the Trinity is terrible, and makes the brain reel. —  En Route

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