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For his choreographic poem, Ravel imagined “an immense hall peopled with a whirling crowd,” and in the sheer refulgence of the waltzes, one can see dignified couples sweeping in circles across a floor.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022

But his life, unlike most lives, had the shape and the refulgence of a movie, and we can watch it again and again.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2016

It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2012

Into the refulgence which for a year haloes the president of the Bar Association stepped Scott Marion Loftin.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was no moon, but the stars shone bright, and, by their refulgence, parties of men were seen walking cautiously along in the same direction.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous