Sentence examples for glittering references from inspiring English sources

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We know this particularly because of the way she challenges the frightful non-character, Mrs Hogg (the first of Spark's holy devils, whose name, whose selfish pride and whose foulness are surely glittering references to James Hogg's 19th-century Scottish fable of the Calvinist elect, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner).

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It later transpired that the price demanded by Argentinos Juniors was in fact £600,000, a fee the Second Division club were in no position to afford, however glittering the reference the manager Harry Haslam gave them.

Duffy describes the towering chalk cliffs as "a glittering breastplate", and references literary antecedents such as Edgar in Shakespeare's King Lear, who describes the "dreadful trade" of the samphire pickers clinging to the cliff face, and Matthew Arnold, who wrote of "the eternal note of sadness" sounded by the waves and shingle in Dover Beach.

It's kind of like the WWE but in a backyard, with slightly more glitter and references to yeast infections one of the finishing moves actually involved one wrestler smothering another one's face in her yeast-infected crotch.

It's kind of like the WWF's Prime Time Wrestling but in a back yard, with slightly more glitter and references to yeast infections one of the finishing moves actually involved one wrestler smothering another one's face in her yeast-infected crotch.

She accessorised with a white fur stole, smoking eyes, glittering gloves and a turban that referenced the style of glamorous Twenties flapper girls.

He wore a baggy white shirt and a glittering stud in each ear and kept making references to the middleweight division, which is going through a unification tournament of its own.

The president averted his eyes as glittering opportunities passed, even when Romney sent a lob his way with a reference to his accountant.

A rough, glittering diamond.

Beyond the stage were the small, glittering planets of Kohler's luxury companies, including Kallista, which was introducing its first dual-flush toilet, Plié (we assumed that was an elegant reference to squatting).

No glittering diamonds.

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