Sentence:  Starting with the room completely blacked out , as it was when we came in , he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of <WSD>glare</WSD> . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted