He said the literature textbooks were terrific -- big, glossy things with pictures and charts and discussion questions galore so that you didn't have to trouble your own brain.
The interface is easy enough to figure out within a few seconds, though I think it looks a bit bland given the iPhone's penchant for glossy things.
There were the expected appearances from past correspondents: Steve Carell, Ed Helms, John Oliver, Rob Corddry and Stephen Colbert all showed up in the first half, alternately saluting and ribbing Stewart for his alleged failings while they have gone on to bigger, glossier things.
"I have some glossy gas thing there, and this had to be an island unto itself".
Sadly, we live in a society in which many people are interested in rape jokes, believe violence against women is funny and habitually consume cultural products that depict women as glossy sex things.
Then I would take them home and show them 8-by-10 glossies, and things changed quite drastically.
Once an arrangement of events, real or invented, organized with the intent of placing a dagger — artistic, intellectual, moral — between the ribs of a listener or reader, a story has lately become a glossier, less thrilling thing: a burst of pathos, a revelation without a veil to pull away.
