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Recent Examples of inner lightThis effect is especially powerful at night, for example when the inner light of the 71 heading downtown from Westwood passes through Beverly Hills, accenting the ruby red glamour of the Beverly Hilton sign and spotlighting the Waldorf Astoria’s platinum one.—Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024 Kazan deftly manages to convey Sister’s James struggle between innocent naivety and the loss of inner light that comes with considering ugly possible truths.—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024 Here are horses being led by riders searching the forest for an inner light.—John Kinsella, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023 In this moment, black seems to evoke fear, hurt and pain while the creature’s inner light — which is more white — leans into more positive color stereotypes.—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for inner light
Unlike dark matter, ordinary matter emits light in various wavelengths, which allow it to easily be seen.
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Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
Once as common as the real creature, a VW on the road today is a relatively rare sight, and Hillsborough affords an opportunity to appreciate the once-ubiquitous bug in a new light.
And for better or worse, practitioners have always stood at the ready, prepared to intervene when our chakras seemed blocked; when our humors seemed unbalanced; when our meridians surely became constricted; when our orgone levels were all out of whack.
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Ashley Fetters Maloy,
Washington Post,
10 July 2023
And then there was orgone, discovered, or imagined, by Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian psychoanalyst and fallen Freudian.
Low energy is also frequently reported among folks with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)—a disorder that causes hormonal imbalances, irregular periods, and other symptoms like excessive hair growth and acne.
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Julia Ries,
SELF,
23 June 2025
Any final decision to close the waterway rests with the country's national security council, and its possibility has raised the specter of higher energy prices and aggravated geopolitical tensions, with Washington calling upon Beijing to prevent the strait's closure.
While jumping from one show to the next, Walters nurtured her relationship with fans and would have been appalled by the current aura of distrust.
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Peter Bart,
Deadline,
26 June 2025
Verne purists won’t be pleased, because the tragic aura that surrounded Nemo in the novels doesn’t exactly translate here, and the adaptation’s company story line is so overwhelming while ultimately feeling too rapidly resolved.
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