light-struck
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of light-struck
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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There’s a stunning group of watercolors, seemingly breathed onto the paper, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, fragile etchings by Whistler and dazzling, light-struck waterside scenes by Sargent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2025
It’s a symphonic work about transience and loss, related in artwork that has some of Edward Hopper’s moody, light-struck realism.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2014
Produced on her return to New York from a trip to Nova Scotia, the painting is a light-struck, diaphanous evocation of hills, rocks and water.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2011
This painting of a shapeless body seated in an angular director's chair at the light-struck center of the canvas is a triumph of Soyer's unsentimental realism.
From Time Magazine Archive
I did not expect much of the plate, because it had been exposed and handled carelessly, and I thought that it might prove to be underexposed or light-struck.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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