Sentence examples for lustre in from inspiring English sources

As investors wise up, running a hedge fund will lose some of its lustre in 2005.

Lustre, in mineralogy, the appearance of a mineral surface in terms of its light-reflective qualities.

He lacked lustre in quieter passages and extracted little poetry from "E lucevan le stelle".

"There is none of you so mean and base, / That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.

Tachylytes are black with a pitchlike or resinous lustre; in thin sections they are characteristically brown and translucent, and the glass is crowded with granules of magnetite.

Holmes carried with him a negative tow thereafter, as if he were responsible for the lack of lustre in the post-Ali era.

However, the American has not lost her lustre and in-between time has become Las Vegas's most successful comedians.

Among the lustres produced in Spain were golden-greenish tinged and tarnished-copper lustres, which in the 17th century tended to be replaced by brigolden-greenish tinged; in 16th-century Itand, ruby-red or golden-yellow lustres with nacreous reflections predominated.

Dunne, who gained early lustre starring in "An American Werewolf in London" and "After Hours," has long exuded sexual panache; Carrie Fisher chose him to relieve her of her virginity.

They lustre on in the memory.

This was a method of evading the prohibition of precious metals, just as gold lustre was in pottery.