Many investors are unwilling to question glowing promises of double-digit returns or to read carefully the small print on a mutual fund statement.
"All spin and no delivery," William Hague's slashing assessment of the government's performance, didn't serve its purpose of making people believe in the Conservatives, but it succinctly captured their principal complaint about Labor -- that it was long on glowing promises and short on the grunt work job of fulfilling them.
Similar glowing promises for labor standards, going back to Gerald Ford, are lost on the families of murdered labor leaders in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Peru.
Trade agreement after trade agreement has not only failed to meet its business sector and political backers' glowing promises of job creation but has done severe damage.
FIRE will, however, keep a close eye on Yale to see if it lives up to its glowing promises of freedom of speech.
New people, glowing with promise themselves, have helped fill them.
Watch HuffPost TV's sneak peek to see Louis' priceless reaction to Donna's glow: "Promise me you keep doing whatever it is you're doing," Louis says.
But even more, the glowing economic promises met the realities of Iraq.
Like an "Obama 2008" lawn sign, this year's holiday glow promises a brighter tomorrow as it illuminates the final weeks of this rather dismal year.
Within it a floating green bottle hovered, glowing with the promise that, yes, in time, everyone shall taste salvation.
