Sentence examples similar to a sheen of privilege from inspiring English sources

And it was here that the boy from Massachusetts glimpsed a much grander life than he had known back home, and began, perhaps, to acquire the sheen of privilege and sophistication that would become an inescapable part and a persistent liability of his life in politics.

A sheen of oil coats the landscape.

Add to this a sheen of pretense.

The complex's dark glass exterior offers a sheen of both exclusivity and secrecy.

The metal was separating and there was a sheen of fuel.

"Better than working, isn't it?" There was a sheen of sweat on his jowls.

The temperature had dropped and the snow had glazed over with a sheen of ice.

But a sheen of innocence remains even on the raciest game here, Gottlieb's 1954 Dragonette.

A sheen of the day's sweat over everything.

This was hardly a case of privilege rewarding privilege.

Obliviousness is a luxury of privilege.