Shining
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To emit light.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Emitting light. Reflecting light. Having a high polish or sheen. Having exceptional merit.
Example sentence: You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Bright
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.Intelligent, brilliant.Vivid, colourful, brilliant.Happy.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An artists brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.A neologism intended as a positive-sounding umbrella term to describe various kinds of non-religious and non-superstitious people. (There is a Wikipedia article on this usage.)
Example sentence: Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.