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glister
noun
A brilliant flash; a glint
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By contrast, Lehman's Mr Fuld talked of "protecting mother" but was drawn to the glister of leveraged deals.
But gold did not glister; its price tumbled, causing shares in gold-mining companies to lose 36% of their value.In this section The smallest and weakest 2002, a fiscal odyssey In Mother Nature's fist Britain's rightful place Excelentisimo Clinton Nor black, nor white, nor yellow The crowd's roar How keen was my valet Reprints.
The shallow glister of spectacle, together with the illusory privilege of participation, are plainly hostile to contemplation or compassion.
Appropriately, Roethke draws from the deepest wells of the English language — Mother Goose, Shakespeare, the Bible — in order to create a new idiom for primal experience: All the leaves stuck out their tongues; I shook the softening chalk of my bones, Saying, Snail, snail, glister me forward, Bird, soft-sigh me home, Worm, be with me.
They glister when the light catches them.
By the time of this year's Policy Exchange summer party, attended by the entire Cameron court, and a good proportion of New Labour's old entourage, there was a glister of a movement that believed it was winning the argument.
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All this should foster investment and growth.In this section Car crash ahead The comfort of strangers All that glisters . . .
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