The fear is that the absence of any gloss, reflection and light will highlight every line around the mouth.
"The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales" (Norton; $35), edited by Maria Tatar, a professor at Harvard, is the latest in Norton's long line of annotated classics, a form that Martin Gardner invented and perfected, forty years ago, with "The Annotated Alice" and "The Annotated Snark": a familiar text with lots of glosses, explanations, and reflections.
The brightness of a pigment is due to diffuse reflection while the gloss is due to specular reflection.
Since gloss is a specular reflection component of the illumination lights, a camera with a very high dynamic range is required in order to measure the gloss luminosity.
Furthermore, since each tissue scatters light internally, if the tongue surface is dry, the tissue does not generate the gloss caused by the reflection of incident light.
I could see our reflections in the gloss of the casket in front of us.
The base coating of the coating system is a gloss lacquer with a Cr reflection layer.
The long-delayed follow-up to her 2003 debut Solo Star, Sol-Angel is savvy R&B with a gloss you can check your reflection in, but it falls short of what she intended: to make the record Dusty Springfield or Minnie Riperton would have made, were they around in 2008.
"It's a reflection of the gloss on this lifestyle". His treatment of the strippers, he adds, is a way to add a bit of sparkle to a profession that's often looked down upon -- even as pole-dancing moves toward the mainstream, thanks to exercise classes that feature it.
Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian called its music "savvy R&B with a gloss you can check your reflection in", but ultimately observed "a lack of both memorable tunes and the steely spined ardour that makes Beyoncé so compelling".
