My face stretched into a stupid smile, and she twinkled back.
I glanced at my diamond ring and it twinkled back with a warning: be honest or be gone.
After a field trip or two, airport architects could be shooting -- not for perfect restaurants or twinkling, back-lit shops -- but for the stars.
My husband trying in vain to listen to a Radio 4 programme, Benjy in the back shouting "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", Toby listing all the Lego sets we simply must buy him, while Clemmie sits serenely in her wheelchair, the boys holding her hands, just the five of us.
When you are crammed, along with two acrobatic felines, in a 400-square-foot studio apartment in a Riverside Drive high-rise as you pursue a career in theater and film (but refuse to be billed as "a former Miss America"), all those twinkling crowns collected "back in the day," as she calls her beauty-pageant past, just don't seem to justify their shelf space.
"Doesn't it ever need a break?" "Maybe it likes it," he shoots back, a twinkle in his eye.
Denzel Washington, another overachiever when it comes to personal magnetism, managed to give his loutish character in "Fences" an appealing twinkle, all while hopping back and forth from the director's chair.
He breezed through the third set in a twinkling, the old zest back in his shots and his head.
