She thought she should be the one who was upset, given that she had a shiny moon-face to match her planet of a stomach.
On the cover, silver-foil stars shine out from a matte blue sky; a shiny yellow moon gleams down on two kids staring out the window.
Thanks to age and stature, Wonder draws a more classically inclined park audience, with their tartan picnic blankets and flutes of fizz, as well as beautifully turned-out millennials with shiny half-moons of sparkles along their cheeks, and distinguished-looking African-Caribbean ladies with silver in their hair cutting some rug.
—Come, let me wash it in this big tin basin, battered and shiny like the moon.
Bettering yourself in Britain is, he reflects, like visiting the moon: "Bright and shiny when you're a long way off, cold and dark when you get there".
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They both see a black cat and two moons (one shiny and normal, the other misshapen and moss-coloured); and both know about the little people who emerge periodically from the mouth of a sleeping child and disappear under the child's bed.
Night arrives almost instantly, the moon hanging like a shiny bauble in a sky of diamonds.
Look up, and you see it hanging in the sky, shiny and unreachable, like a second moon or a vast Mercedes-Benz badge: a fitting likeness, because Elysium is solely for the rich.
Working your shiny butt off for the goddamn moon?
