Sentence examples for glittering thing from inspiring English sources
The spectacular element had gone way beyond anything that troubled Ruskin and co: "the monstrous glittering thing of pomp and humour," said the Star in December, 1900, betraying an odd unease both with empire and this theatrical child of empire.
On the evidence of the objects on view, Safavid Iran was, at least on elite levels, an avidly consumerist culture, appetite driven and mad for expensive, glittering things.
"Not to do this," she cried triumphantly, "is 'incoherence.' " The jinn are fond of glittering things, gold and jewels and so on, and often they conceal their hoards in subterranean caves.
I once tried the glitter thing: bad idea.
When I first heard about a "Glitter thing" on the internet, I tried to ignore it as best I could.
If you decide to do the fabric or glitter thing, make sure it's not too gaudy or over the top.
There's always that ONE -- who glitters things that don't necessarily need to be glittered.
By Phyllis McGinley The New Yorker, August 21 , 1943 P. 24The glittering shape of things to come View Article By Rivka Galchen By Larissa MacFarquhar By Alexandra Schwartz By Malcolm Gladwell.
What they should do is to look past the grand arcs and great drama of reality TV, and find the more interesting things glittering beneath.
She wants to stay in here forever, become a saint, a fleshless thing with glittering bones.
Crowds of Oxford's bright young things – all glittering sequins and dubious turbans – climbed aboard seven battered coaches (the type that reek of cigarettes) that drove for an hour into the countryside.
