But to write five novels (Scott) or seventeen (Nabokov) — to make a career — you must have, with brilliance, a number of less glamorous virtues, for example, patience, resilience, and courage.
You might call it a difference of degree that becomes a difference in kind -- and the difference points to a gap between the publish-or-perish graduate students who equip themselves to go after the most prestigious positions and the others who compete for the larger number of less-glamorous jobs.
It's a story of romantic and professional jealousy, just the excuse for a string of glamorous musical numbers by movie greats.
The festival always attracts its share of glamorous celebrities but a number of ambitious movies are dominating the discussion of this year's Tribeca programme, including several high-profile documentaries.
There's more to Dubai than its glitzy array of glamorous hotels and the ever-growing number of skyscrapers that shape the city skyline.
Tiffany Knight, an actress, and John Paterakis, a retired banker, arrived as the tenth and fourth Doctors, respectively; a number of other women looked like the glamorous River Song, a space archaeologist who, in an affecting plot from 2008, married the Doctor — a good thing, except that they were moving in opposite directions in time, and were therefore never quite in sync.
She was the height of glamorous eccentricity.
Prospective members may regret the absence of glamorous international travel.
They know their work is the opposite of glamorous.
It's made him a wealthy man with a glamorous lifestyle and string of glamorous wives.
