(n.) Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies.
(n.) One who illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Newton was a distinguished luminary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later in the day, both presidents joined Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton at another Democratic luminary’s birthday party.
(2) Granta is rushing out 100,000 extra copies of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries to capitalise on the first Booker prize win for the publishing house.
(3) Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute – employer of such luminaries as Iraq War stooge Judith Miller, invariably wrong William Kristol and racist hack Charles Murray – was willing to go even further than Marshall in placing the blame for women’s economic travails on alienation from “the family” and then further blaming women’s thoughts for turning women against where they belong.
(4) He has, after all, been such a boxing luminary for 17 years, as loud and bright as an atomic bomb, that only the purblind or the ignorant could have failed to notice the fire in his gloves, the wings on his heels.
(5) A no campaign that emphasised those shared experiences would have struck a deep chord: "This is a very loyal British country in its soul," the SNP luminary said to my astonishment – hastily stressing that Scots' attachment was to an emotional Britishness, not the British state.
(6) The consensus at the RSA conference, where luminaries from the security community are gathered, is that Washington will have a hard time convincing Silicon Valley engineers to invent a technical solution to resolve the standoff between Apple and the FBI .
(7) The Russian tycoon has said he wants to have an editorial board comprised of luminaries such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Lebedev's personal friend, and Tony Blair.
(8) The Webby awards, often described as "the Oscars of the internet", are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.
(9) She does not make things easy for herself: she has organised her 800-page epic according to astrological principles, so that characters are not only associated with signs of the zodiac, or the sun and moon (the "luminaries" of the title), but interact with each other according to the predetermined movement of the heavens, while each of the novel's 12 parts decreases in length over the course of the book to mimic the moon waning through its lunar cycle.
(10) Australian film producer Jan Chapman has said she is “devastated” after her photo was mistakenly used in the Oscars’ In Memoriam montage, which celebrates film industry luminaries who have died in the past year.
(11) The artist turned film-maker, whose only feature film to date is the acclaimed 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, reportedly beat out luminaries of the calibre of Joe Wright, Bennett Miller and Gus van Sant.
(12) Eleanor Catton's life swerved off its expected course almost exactly 12 hours before our meeting, the morning after her novel The Luminaries – a virtuoso work set amid the 1860s New Zealand gold rush – was named the winner of the 2013 Man Booker prize .
(13) Eleanor Catton is second favourite to win the Man Booker prize with her 823-page novel, The Luminaries, behind the favourite, Jim Crace.
(14) Criminals learning from NSA Intelligence agency hacking techniques will also be adopted by criminals, according to security luminaries speaking with The Guardian.
(15) But running for president can be tough, as political luminaries such as Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and George HW Bush have found.
(16) It's been suggested The Luminaries might be the Great New Zealand Novel, an idea that makes her uncomfortable.
(17) Cliff Richard was a supporter while other luminaries included Mary Whitehouse, Salvation Army leaders and senior clergy.
(18) It's been suggested recently that we've entered a new era of big books, with some highly praised novels, including The Luminaries and fellow Man Booker nominee The Kills , by Richard House , getting on for as much as 1,000 pages.
(19) She learned from the luminaries of the age: JB Priestley (whom she charges with taking an idea for a play from one she wrote), Bernard Shaw, Sybille Bedford, EM Forster, Elizabeth Bowen, Rebecca West, Ian Fleming, Cyril Connolly, Charlie Chaplin, Stephen Spender, Muriel Spark, who observed an argument at dinner "expressionlessly – like a bird witnessing a road accident".
(20) From these results we speculate that reserve cells located in the intercalated small ducts of Bartholin's gland may have the potential to differentiate into two cell types, myoepithelial and luminary cells, the former forming the pseudocysts.
Personage
Definition:
(n.) Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.
(n.) Character assumed or represented.
(n.) A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 200th anniversary of the death of Christian Andreas Cothenius gave occasion to appreciate life and work of this personage of a physician.
(2) One is a statue of Queen Victoria, the other a family of abstract personages by Hepworth, taken from her larger work The Family of Man and placed here as a monument after her death.
(3) The pedigree provides a guide to related personages and a data base for analysis.
(4) All that is required of any foreign personage is to speed along the line of greeters, murmuring: "Jolly good show – carry on."
(5) She was only the eleventh woman to do so, and never expected it; a lack of expectation that was in itself a kind of artistic freedom, for if you don't think of yourself as an august personage, you don't have to behave yourself.
(6) Analysing the multiple factors influencing traffic safety, the results showed that the upper-limit-age of a train driver should not be more than 50 years old; The phenomenon "bathtub" between personage accident rate and age must be taken seriously.
(7) This part, proposes the analysis of the psychopathological types (cyclic psychosis of Lazare, the "typus melancholicus" of Véronique, the paranoia of madam Chanteau, the "crack" and masochism of Pauline) and the pathogenic-situations in the most narrow interaction ("in" and "out" of the personages).
(8) He was acquainted and treated some of the more eminent personages of his time and published some remarkable medical works as the Index Disocorides, Commentaries on Discorides and the Centuries of Medical Cures which outlived him and were many times edited all over Europe.
(9) Nowadays he tends to be placed in the deeper positions appropriate to a personage of such seniority.
(10) Hereby the development of these personages was briefly outlined.
(11) The form is based on a £10 note with, of course, the Queen presiding over the image – but not depicted as the stern regal personage of our real currency, but rather as if she were “your auntie”, says Perry.
(12) Alongside such uplifting stereotypes were ruder ones, comprising the well-known " Sardarji" (the Hindi colloquialism for the Sikh) jokes , portraying a dim but well-intentioned personage.
(13) The heredo-morphological pioneer research of Prof. Nelis on eight personages from five generations of the same family is unique.
(14) In the Russian medicinal and scientific organization of the early 18th century decisively promoted by Czar Peter I such personages as the physicians Johann Deodat Blumentrost and Laurentius Blumentrost have obtained important key positions.
(15) Yet even if the phone-hacking allegations were to spread to his employers the Sun, my bet is Jeremy wouldn't resign in disgust at the intrusion on his personage.
(16) Often these were costume pictures about historical personages, ranging from Lady Hamilton (1967) - he played the cuckolded Sir William Hamilton - to Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), with Mills as George Canning.
(17) On past form Mr Murdoch may at some stage offer "guarantees" of editorial independence to be overseen by distinguished personages.
(18) It was here that we first heard of "the unreliable narrator", a personage now familiar from any number of book reviews or broadcast literary discussions.
(19) From Cambridge no less a personage than Richard Evans , the Regius Professor of History, condemned Gove's attempt to restore "rote learning of the patriotic stocking-fillers so beloved of traditionalists".
(20) He's tasked with defending her royal personage and not wigging out when she emerges from a funeral pyre naked with baby dragons crawling over her shoulder.