resplendence

• “There is a crystalline humanity, a logical vulnerability in Berg's imaginative interpretation of these religious figures, which brings novel resplendence to a familiar story.”

  The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizabeth Berg: Book summary

• “The way they look - first prettily adorned, then by the end tattered - evokes the resplendence of Cio-Cio-San the bride, then the degradation that engulfs her as she nears her inevitable, ruinous end.”

  The Washington Post: Screens evoke 'Butterfly' magic

• “Given the resplendence of the previous episode two weeks ago, when Dean Pelton had a nervous breakdown over the college's late-night commercial, we were due a ho-hum episode that doesn't deliver much.”

  The Huffington Post: Monica Potts: Community: Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism

• “You will glitter everywhere with your resplendence.”

  The Huffington Post: Locke Rush: Choosing to Feed the Godly Wolf Inside

• “It is a brilliant resplendence which knows and understands all the universe.”

  The Huffington Post: Locke Rush: Tumbling Through Life

• “In the manner of superheroes, both were dressed in sleek, formfitting, iridescent outfits that advertised their fitness and firmness and enhanced the resplendence of their bodies in action.”

  Newsweek: Albertine Takes A Tumble

• “When Albertus Magnus refers to resplendence it is usually safe to construe what he says in terms of some form of divine illumination.”

  Dietrich of Freiberg

• “Dietrich makes a very interesting and important application of this doctrine of the resplendence of the intellect.”

  Dietrich of Freiberg

• “Edgar, who had hardly yet looked at her, was now himself struck with the unusual resplendence of her beauty, and telling Camilla he saw she was glad to be at liberty, protested he could not but rejoice to be spared a decision for himself, where the choice would have been so difficult.”

  Camilla

• “In the autumn resplendence of his telecasting career, Dobbs's self-regard, never meek or slender, has ripened into the pompatus of love.”

  Father Dobbs

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