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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

If there was a hater among them, he kept his secret and did not stain the refulgence.

From Time Magazine Archive

A hundred crystal lustres, brilliant with gold and precious stones, and lit up with thousands of wax-lights, shed a refulgence more dazzling than the day.

From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Pardoe, Julia