lambent

IPA: ɫˈæmbɪnt

Brushing or flickering gently over a surface.
Glowing or luminous, but lacking heat.
(figuratively) Exhibiting lightness or brilliance of wit; clever or witty without unkindness.

Examples of "lambent" in Sentences

When he shot the sun at noon, the glow of achievement wrapped him in lambent flame.
He gazes with growing fear and wonder at the lambent pattern of particle tracks, and struggles to absorb the full implications.
They have a taste of native earth, beautifully rarefied: to change the metaphor, they illuminate the page with a kind of lambent common sense.
An internal light source emits a lambent umber glow so that, in the gallery's dimly lit corner in which it sits, it looks like a meteor that just cratered into the floor.
Dominguez's tattered adorableness at the beginning, the way she warbles about what Glen Campbell would call the dreams of an everyday housewife, her lambent and then incandescent love for Seymour, all this she conveys with passion and conviction.
As Leigh did with 2008's "Happy-Go-Lucky," he and cinematographer Dick Pope have chosen a lush palette and expansive widescreen canvas to draw the audience into Tom and Gerri's lambent world, made all the more seductive by Gary Yershon's lyrical chamber score.