Everything gleamed around me, counters polished, the glass of the cabinets as transparent as air, because details mattered then, everything in its place whether Christine was there or not — especially if she wasn't there, and where was she?
My favourite: "The mountains gleamed around in a hedge of inaccessible purity, from which his eyes fell dazzled to the green depths of the valley; the whole picture was incomparable, and when he heard the harpsichord's silver monotony across the lotus pool, he felt that it threaded the perfect pattern of sight and sound".
She sunk into the shards as smoothly as if they were satin, as if they were snow, and the limestone gleamed around her, an ice field, each tile with its swollen pillowed edge, each with a shadow pattern faint as breath.
Your parade shoes need to be shiny at the toe cap and gleaming around the rest of the show.
But, looking at all the gleaming eyes around the fire, I was mostly reminded of the Island of Lost Boys.
A steadicam tracks the bald, bearded Cramer, eyes gleaming, pacing around the studio like a backwoods revivalist, shouting hosannas to his favorite stock of the moment (which, more often than not, he says is guaranteed to go up, up, up) and pausing only to smack oversize buttons on a control panel that cue various silly sound effects, such as the Hallelujah chorus or a trumpet fanfare.
The college library was a high beautiful space, designed and built and paid for by people who believed that those who sat at its long tables in front of open books — even those who were hungover, sleepy, resentful, and uncomprehending — should have space above them, panels of dark gleaming wood around them, high windows bordered with Latin admonitions through which to look at the sky.
When President Clinton spoke this morning inside the gleaming Empire Hotel, he looked around in marvel.
The owner of a gleaming new BMW will drive around for half an hour to avoid a 50 cent parking fee.
The stadium, which is designed to look like an indigenous straw basket, will surely gleam while the city around it offers a mix of areas: the upscale Ponta Negra, for example, contrasted with a slew of gritty slums.
