The causes Rayner was passionate about were not particularly glamorous: standards in nursing, protecting children from cruelty, the health problems brought by old age, gay rights, better cancer care, the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.
WASHINGTON — Even by this city's not-so-glamorous standards, Austan D. Goolsbee would seem to be an unlikely candidate for Web video star.
It is not scenically glamorous by American standards: the round-topped mountains look more slumped than soaring; the buildings are ramshackle (there is none of the rigorous beauty of New England villages), and most people live surrounded by thick woods with no views and little sunlight, which gives everything a dank, musty quality, at least in winter.
It turns out that these poor creatures are quite glamorous by our standards and the "normal" folks rather repulsive, but the point's the same.
Both clubs would be regarded as wealthy and glamorous, by the modest standards of British rugby league.
Understandably, the world's most glamorous drink has zealously maintained standards over the decades: the champagne watchdog, the CIVC (Comité interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne), orchestrates the rules and decides the harvest start date.
"Don Juan" unstintingly and unsurprisingly offended and blasphemed, all in the interest of creating a character who threatened the established order -- not so much with his sexual profligacy, but as an iconoclast with a flair for living the glamorous life by his own standards.
Once Louis XIV turned his father's hunting lodge into the world's most glamorous country house, Versailles set the standard for deluxe remodeling.
In an effort to make the vehicle stand out in the market against similar rivals, which included its own derivatives, Peugeot added a more glamorous two-door cabriolet to the standard three-door hatchback.
All the stuff about the web bears little relation to the real internet, and is being used (bizarrely) to make a standard point and click adventure seem glamorous.
