"glittering success" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe a highly successful and impressive achievement or event. It can be used in formal or informal writing, and in both professional and personal contexts. Example: The launch of the new product was a glittering success, with record-breaking sales and rave reviews from customers.
But when their father told them on Dec. 10, 2008, that his glittering success was actually an immense Ponzi scheme, the brothers were instantly united.
Mike Gonzales's costumes play an important part in the glittering success of the Trocks' "Paquita," staged by Ms. Kunikova after the Petipa original.
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.
Even by the standards of an athlete whose career has been marked as much by mishap and misfortune as by glittering success, the past 12 months have been torrid.
In this case, Margaret, a lifelong dilettante, decides to write a novel because it seems a way to "achieve glittering success without the painful and humiliating apprenticeship other well-regarded careers required".
The world of Weimar and fascism in which the first generation grew up was a very different one to the apparent glittering success of "classless" liberal democratic (West) Germany.
Her early foreign-policy forays, especially to Washington, DC, and Brussels, were glittering successes that drew a favourable contrast with her Social Democratic predecessor, Gerhard Schröder.
But his numerous and glittering successes should comfort him in his frustration.
Yet Rome's glittering successes made such openness ever more problematic.
And by the time her coffin arrived for burial, a storm of outrage had been whipped up — one framed by a glittering Hollywood success.
Not content with such glittering sporting success, Fry was also a journalist of some repute and published his own magazine, as well as standing for parliament as a Liberal, but in a rare personal failure he did not win a seat in three attempts.
