The short, repeated flights, while jump-starting the book's enormous vitality, exchange depths for heights; up there, the points on the arc (to use the author's words) glitter brightly but briefly, in a depthless universe, because one can't see the arc that holds them aloft.
One gripe is that the razzamatazz glitters more brightly than the substance.
Clustered, layered and stacked — these earrings, rings and bracelets glitter most brightly in groups.
Layers of story emerge like a row of matryoshka dolls while humour, wordplay and narrative voice glitter as brightly as the egg, which is by Fabergé.
Still, there is no reason to believe that some of the remaining four bronze and one silver these excellent Great Britain boxers have gathered over the past couple of days might not yet glitter more brightly.
Even in the mid-60s, when they were at their most successful and prolific, he could work with other composers to come up with jewels that glitter more brightly with the passing years.
In fact we loved the way its sharpness was a foil for the sweetness of the vanilla ice cream inside the pastry, the way its darkness made the colored sprinkles on it glitter more brightly.
As befits a journalist with an eye for bad news, he also has much more to say on its calamitous first half than on its more successful second half.Mr Mak's travels start in the capitals that glittered so brightly in the early 1900s: Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St Petersburg, London.
Tiny stalls to either side of the narrow street sell leather goods, jewellery, lamps, glittering oriental slippers, brightly painted tagines and other pottery dishes.
There are other reasons why the prospect of a Trump presidency might cause gold to glitter a little more brightly.
