They must lower their expectations and dim their glittering self-images in order to become functional adults.
Alert, glittering, self-possessed, they're barely visible in reproductions, so it's a bit startling to see them when faced with the picture itself in the museum.
Descriptions of her in this era focus on her glittering self-belief, and at 17, she went to Oxford to study English on a scholarship.
Wharton didn't write a novel of the Riviera; she conveyed her New York characters and their "little hothouse of traditions and conventions" to the Riviera, and contrasted its natural beauty with their glittering self-regard.
Lacking in the sparkle-plenty splendor of the glittering self-indulgence of previous films in The Hunger Games series that juxtaposed the grey and the ominous against the vile splendor.
Not something that ever seemed likely to preoccupy the glittering, self-besotted members of the fashion tribe.
But here's the rub: if one believes that there is an intimate connection between one's authentic self and glittering success at work, then the experience of failure and forced unemployment is accepted as one's own fault.
What America exports to poor countries through the ubiquitous media -- pictures of glittering abundance and national self-absorption -- enrages those whom it doesn't depress.
Steiner Studios, the film and television production facility, and the most visible occupant, has given New York its own version of Burbank, and more than that, a factory for reproducing the city's glittering, millennial self-image.
There's a lightly syncopated mirror song in which a big-voiced singer (Carol Woods) flanked by six "girls" contemplates her true and false selves with wry gaiety; as they sing, their youthful chorine selves appear, clad in glittering costumes.
At least Young has had a long, glittering career and deserves a little self-indulgence.
