(a.) Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.
Example Sentences:
(1) The month was bliss for the residents, but once the road reopened the traffic worsened with a corresponding effect on the quality of air.
(2) Rob Bliss, who runs a viral video marketing agency, created and directed the video in association with Hollaback , a New York-based group dedicated to ending street harassment .
(3) On involvement with the guru and a new 'family,' the experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified.
(4) She told the audience: “Today, of course, for those of you who have been blissfully off of Twitter, the House of Representatives jammed through a bill that really very few members of Congress, I think, had read.
(5) Your blissfully suspended disbelief comes crashing back down to marketing-strategised reality.
(6) Their psychoses can be classified as benefaction or blissfulness psychoses.
(7) Just when Poland seemed to be labouring, two touches of blissful simplicity hauled them level.
(8) I think some would almost rather live in blissful ignorance for now."
(9) There was even a genuinely moving soft metal version of You’ll Never Walk Alone, sung by the entire stadium, the night transformed suddenly into a huge blissfully teary family wedding.
(10) 'We built a piece of the red planet in California' SC Everybody wanted to do some blissful tropical island planet, but nobody wanted it to look like a standard blissful tropical environment we're familiar with here on Earth, because that doesn't feel like you're going any place special, it just feels like vacation.
(11) In fact charm and magic refer to the same phenomenon, the promise of blissful sleep at the breast of Mother, the omnipotent charmer.
(12) Consequently, BLISS will be a useful screening tool during the rehabilitation selection process.
(13) The right has spent almost every moment of the last six years painting leftists as people gazing in blissful awe at Obama.
(14) Ignorance of the scale of the challenge can sometimes be bliss, he added: “You can be halfway up the mountain before you realise what the challenges are.” Stapleton’s keynote speech was followed by a panel discussion by the owners of three very different businesses: Joanna Montgomery, who founded Little Riot , which makes Pillow Talk wristbands; Nick Edwards, founder of software company Papaya Resources ; and Arpana Gandhi, who founded Disarmco , a company that has developed a safe way of disposing of landmines and other unexploded ordnance (explosive weapons).
(15) Wordsworth's French revolution paen, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!"
(16) The results indicate a high degree of accuracy compared with calculations performed by Bliss.
(17) He is blissfully oblivious to both the biological challenges and the political ramifications of his question.
(18) If that makes you mad or perplexed, might I recommend downloading Vine , following DeStorm Power , and forgetting your troubles for seven blissful seconds.
(19) The Chihuahua desert city had grown rapidly over the years, because of the Fort Bliss military base and migration from Mexico.
(20) Chief constable Andy Bliss, national policing lead for drugs, said: "Enforcement of the qat ban will be firm but proportionate."
Radiance
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Radiancy
Example Sentences:
(1) Response saturation of blue-sensitive cone pathways was studied by measuring increment thresholds for violet test flashes on flashed violet fields in the presence of a steady yellow "auxiliary" field of constant radiance.
(2) The first study determined absolute thresholds for "white" and monochromatic lights by establishing a discrimination between lights of various radiances and a dark key.
(3) The radiance of the annulus required to make the central area (spot and ring) appear uniformly black was measured for different wavelengths (440-660 nm) of the annulus.
(4) Mayor Boris Johnson, whose default setting has been relentless and sometimes improbable cheerleading in the face of serious concerns and minor niggles, promised with typical restraint that as the flame "spreads through the city its radiance will dispel any last clouds of dankness and anxiety that may hover over some parts of the media".
(5) The minimal radiance at which phototherapy begins to be effective for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia was also determined.
(6) The effects of chromatic adaptation on the opponent interactions of cone mechanisms were investigated by using increment-threshold spectral-sensitivity (ITSS) functions and threshold-versus-radiance (TVR) curves in rhesus monkey subjects.
(7) This may in part be related to the intrusion of the blue-sensitive mechanism at the upper radiance range.
(8) The obtained constancy ratios were attributed to the role of distance estimation in the determination of colour appearance, an effect that is presumably masked under normal viewing conditions, where long viewpaths are necessary to produce significant radiance changes.
(9) All the cone mechanisms were in compliance of Ricco's law, summing target radiance linearly over a certain range of target diameters with an average slope of 2.4.
(10) "If you look at it as an exhibition, there is a lot of radiance and luminosity and jewel-like colours," she say.
(11) A small patch of achromatic light viewed within a large achromatic surround appears gray or black when the radiance of the surround is well above that of the patch.
(12) A study is reported of colour appearance in situations where the spectral radiance of an object changes significantly with viewing distance.
(13) Many times over the past decade and in the middle of making other films – All or Nothing , Happy-Go-Lucky , Another Year – Mike Leigh and his cinematographer, Dick Pope, would look at the sky and then at one another and say: “Oh God, we must make our Turner film.” A particular light, a moment’s radiance, a sunset – any of these might set them off.
(14) A rapid clinical protocol to assess the radiance response function of the SWS cone ERG is described.
(15) When changing the radiance ratio 630 nm-531 nm of the stimulus, the normal subject exhibited a P-ERG to all stimuli with only a relative amplitude minimum at a distinct radiance ratio, whereas the color-deficient observers failed to show a P-ERG at some color contrast 630 nm-531 nm, the radiance ratio of which was different in the protan and deutan.
(16) The responses of the phasic ganglion cells go through a minimum at relative radiances very similar to that predicted from the V lambda function.
(17) The diffusion length was also determined from radiance versus depth measurements.
(18) Biological weighting functions were used to calculate the blue-light radiance and the weighted UV irradiance.
(19) Considering a negative phototaxis as a stimulus reaction to narrow - or wideband monochromatic radiance of varying ranges of wavelengths and different irradiance it was established that both unfed and engorged I. and II.
(20) Different color sensations were generated by two areas in a complex scene, even though both areas sent to the eye the same 656-nanometer radiance that excited the long-wave cones and excited only the rods.