Sentence examples for shiny success from inspiring English sources

During its long consignment to limbo, Mr. Sondheim quickly graduated into shiny success.

Yet like the haunted Thorin Oakenshield (a Shakespearean Richard Armitage), who spends much of this final movie holed up beneath the Lonely Mountain, bedazzled by an undulating sea of gold, one wonders whether the purity of Jackson's original quest hasn't been lost amid the series' shiny success.

The road to big, shiny success is often paved with quite a few failures.

It would be hard to find a shinier success story than Ms Kyenge's.

Their fate threatens to tarnish the image of Africa's shiniest success story.Survival International, a London-based lobby, has aroused international anxiety about the reserve's indigenous Bushmen, also known as the San, who were once hunter-gatherers.

-- Finland is this decade's shiny icon of classroom success, the repeat winner of top results in a global ranking of national school systems.

I find many conferences fall too easily into self-congratulatory mode; touting the shiny, one-off, heroic successes or saying smart things but missing the real work that comes from asking the hard questions, sharing mutual struggles of reality, and learning from best practices.

In the old days it was more often the opposite: the academy would belatedly gild the lily of commercial success with a shiny finish of ersatz class.

But for all the shiny veneer, the lustre of success (in a society that all too readily and increasingly defines achievement in terms of material gain), they're the same as you and me.

Michelle Hart is an Author and Intuitive Business + Success Coach at Shiny New Life.

Shiny is a British new media success story.