In recollection, the shiny, self-pitying grandeur of Pink Floyd is among the uneasiest tokens of my teen-age tastes.
They pity themselves because the money they counted on will not appear in their future; they feel guilty because they have not done enough with the money they've had in the past; they fear who they are without the protection of money in the present — their inconstant, untethered, less shiny selves.
A nice leitmotif is the shiny, threadbare self-help babble that people persist in spouting.
That disagreeable man at the podium, shiny with self-satisfaction, has promised to read from his memoirs, and the tome in front of him is the size of the collected works of Joyce Carol Oates.
I have read some of Moran's arguments about porn (though none so comically expressed); other insights are so shiny, neat, self-evidently right that it was like she was potting a snooker ball in my brain.
But if Mr Karamanlis is right and the Greeks' achievement in Portugal triggers a last-minute wave of Olympic visitors, a shinier, more self-confident Athens could become a trendy European city even if the price will have been high.
Just as a jackpot winner is willing to discard an old identity for a shiny, seamless, new self, her spouse is being forced to recognize that what he stands for isn't worth much in the new marital order.
But you want to at least try, so you resolved to do something when the clock struck 00 00 on the 1st of January: goodbye, rubbish old self; HELLO shiny, box-fresh self who does mindfulness and only goes to McDonald's on the weekend.
But you want to at least try, so you resolved to do something when the clock struck midnight on the January 1: goodbye, old self; HELLO shiny, box-fresh self who does mindfulness and only goes to McDonald's on the weekend.
Over in the shiny new world of self-publishing things look bleaker still, with 80% of the DBW's go-it-alone authors dipping under the £600 mark.
Despite this being a very gay moment in American pop culture, Mr. Norton, a self-professed "shiny Irish poof," was not sure how viewers would respond to his overt homosexuality.
