Sentence examples for shiny awards from inspiring English sources

Let's hope it gets some rah rah rah's from the Tony voters and picks up two shiny awards at the ceremony this June.

Year after year, the Academy Awards delivers the same old schtick to the A-list Hollywood crowd: the same mildly funny but (mostly) politically correct jokes, the same sparkly outfits, the same barrage of shiny awards given out to the same movies that please the old white men of the Academy.

Nor do shiny acting awards solve everything.

They saw it as valuable "reputation insurance": every time they are criticised for their massive emissions of warming gases, or for events such as the massive oil spill that has just turned the Gulf of Mexico into the "Gulf of Texaco", they wheel out their shiny green awards to ward off the prospect of government regulation and to reassure the public that they Really Care.

I'm suppose to sit behind this desk and help all the directors, big and small, be the best they can be and then help them get their movies out there so the greatest number of people will see them, and get them as many fucking shiny, gold awards as possible.

But the shiny objects awarded were secondary to the chance for Mets fans to say with water colors what they had been feeling in their hearts, despite what sometimes got stuck in their craws.

The list of plays, musicals, actors, directors, designers and composers in the running for a shiny Tony award this year run the gamut of expected -- the critically acclaimed musical "Fun Home" and historical fiction favorite "Wolf Hall" both received nods, to the ever so slightly less expected -- "This Is Our Youth" nabbed a nomination while its very youthful star Tavi Gevinson was left out.

My mother still has the flag, folded and tucked neatly into a small wooden box, along with the half-dozen shiny golden medals awarded my dead father.

In the movie, naval aviators get dressed up in their white uniforms and hats for a ceremony that marks the end of their dog fighting course and a shiny plaque is awarded to the top pilot.

Heck, I even threw out the shiny golden Emmy award I had won.

And just wait to see what living legend turns up to accept the shiny Brass Balls Award.