Sentence examples for less glittering from inspiring English sources

But for readers whose talents are less glittering, a gushing dust jacket note that the author "never travels without his mandolin" may be a little much.

The "America" of Allen Ginsberg ("I've given you all and now I'm nothing") surely differs from that of Walt Whitman ("Center of equal daughters, equal sons"), Whitman's America no less gilded than Waldseemüller's, no less glittering a lure to immigrants fleeing lives that weren't working out or, at least, ones they wished to see — by themselves — redefined.

If Mohamed Morsi, claiming victory on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), indeed turns out to have won, his presidency will be a far less glittering prize than he and his followers must have hoped and his detractors at home and abroad had feared.

"Freedom" is a still richer and deeper work — less glittering on its surface but more confident in its method.

On August 15th the Anglo-Australian company confirmed rumours that it was considering getting shot of some of its less glittering assets to concentrate its efforts on a few commodities.

Artists and moviegoers commingle casually, and with the media notably absent and the opportunities for preening at a minimum, the stars tend to be less glittering than interesting - and interested.

As art critics, she observed, New York parents seem to share one criterion: the less glitter the better.

Huge investments can yield disappointing returns if promising mines turn out to contain less glitter than predicted.Gold bugs, by definition, bet that the price of gold will go up and up.

But for Daria E. Merwin, the goal has a bit less glitter: discovering a 10,000-year-old heap of shells and some ancient arrowheads, spear points and cutting tools in the waters off New Jersey.

Why, she's Sarah Palin with a little less glitter body cream and and little more class!

But its performance was less than glittering (see chart).