Bacho, Tanzania: So, there sat Ufani School, atop a grassy knoll with its bright blue walls shining and glass windows glinting in the East African sun.
We find ourselves atop an Austrian peak, in a clinic whose outer walls shine like mirrors, where Bond is quizzed by Dr. Swann ("Do you consider your employment to be psychologically stressful?"), and from which he departs in haste, using a twin-prop plane as a sled.
Under Mr. Spitzer, the attorney general's office became a muscular, widely feared force on Wall Street, shining a spotlight on longstanding abuses, like the doctoring of research reports by stock analysts, who were supposedly offering objective information to the public, to help their investment banking colleagues win business.
And no youthful spree was complete without bagging one of the mango shampoos or pomegranate body lotions that lined the shop's walls like shining, aromatic jewels.
With its persimmon red lacquer-painted walls and shining polished ecru shelves displaying a collection of volumes one cannot find easily just about anywhere else, the store is a reminder of how grand life on an artistic plane can be.
The heavy sides of beef and lamb hanging from wall hooks shone dark and glassy, spoiling in the heat.
A dimly lit room at the Corning Museum of Glass, in upstate New York, feels like a deep water dive: A single, L-shaped display case, embedded along two midnight-blue walls, shines with a diverse family of extraordinary aquatic beings.
Great singing would be a valid reason in my book, but this production didn't really help any of its singers to excel, though Joshua Hopkins, with a bright, ardent voice, held his own in the bari-hunk role of Valentin, Marguerite's soldier brother; Allegra De Vita was a sturdy Siébel; and Erin Wall offered a shining soprano in a rather bouncy portrayal of Marguerite herself.
From the leaning, shining walls immense rectangles of torn and spattered canvas projected on thin arms of bent pipe.
