The rock usually has a silvery, glittering appearance from the abundance of layered muscovite crystals, but many greisens resemble a pale granite.
"These complex motions, combined with the colored and glittering appearance, maximize the twinkling visual effect of this uncomplicated device, while requiring no effort on the part of the observer or user," he said.
As others have observed, the businessman he most resembles is P. T. Barnum, whose success rested on what he called "humbug," defined as "putting on glittering appearances . . . by which to suddenly arrest public attention, and attract the public eye and ear".
Iodine is a nonmetallic, nearly black solid at room temperature and has a glittering crystalline appearance.
As some previous productions have triumphantly proved, Wilde's novel – with its examination of life and art, the beautiful and the ugly and its emphasis on the dark and tawdry realities hiding beneath glittering surface appearances – is ripe for theatrical reinvention.
You have transformed a beauty pageant of glitter, appearances, and high-heeled logic into a pageantry of virtues and human decency.
Building low relief tableaux on a base of heavy, yellowing Mexican bark paper, she combines original etchings, gold leaf, rock crystals, postcards, found images and small toys to create fairy tale scenarios with the appearance of glittering illustrations from an ancient prayer book.
During a glittering career he made 536 appearances and won seven German Cups and, in 2013, the Champions League.
The 34-year-old Gerrard, who has made 708 appearances in a glittering 17-year career with his hometown club, is moving to Los Angeles Galaxy at the end of the season.
But if the club's Indian owners Venky's have led Blackburn down a cul-de-sac, in Henning Berg, a man who made almost 300 appearances during two glittering spells at Ewood Park, they believe they have found the man to take them in the right direction.
Marching bands, costumed characters, equestrians, classic cars, Santa and the missus, and many more special guests all make appearances among the glittering floats and mega-sized inflatables during the parade.
