What goes well, therefore, with high-def are certain incandescent beauties, from Jonathan Rhys Meyers on "The Tudors" to Minka Kelly on "Friday Night Lights."

Rachel Weisz possesses an incandescent beauty, a fierce intellect, and proper acting chops.

Beneath the incandescent beauty of her fare, behind eyes that concealed centuries yet could be so immediate they drew blood, beneath the deep olive skin, the Jewess' skin, there lay feelings that would blister the air if given vent.

Displayed in a somewhat out-of-the-way location, these works of pottery, basketry, beadwork, painting and sculpture, all on loan from a major private collection, are of incandescent beauty.

As designers raised on injection-molded plastics start exploring the incandescent beauty of things handmade, Mr. Moss is at the ready to be their bald John Ruskin, the 19th-century aesthetician who glorified English crafts.

And many of the objects are of incandescent beauty.

Uma Thurman is another incandescent beauty who also saw fit to deny her good looks this week.

Finally, a plump, incandescent beauty came within her sights.

At the prescribed hour, two guides appeared and my companion and I took off to the river and its incandescent beauty.

On the first gulf war's bombing of Baghdad: "The tracer rounds made lines of incandescent beauty, lovely arcing curves and slow S's and parabolas of light."