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Ms. Fox’s nonluminous Lily remains a standard male fantasy of a damsel in distress until the inevitable “Wind Beneath My Wings” moment lofts the movie into a never-never land of hokey sentimentality.

From New York Times • May 6, 2011

Comets actually age, therefore, and grow less and less in magnitude of material as well as brightness, until they are at last opaque, nonluminous bodies which it becomes impossible to follow with the telescope.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck