With warm, gleaming, gem-like sentences, Woodson captures the rare treasures of girlhood friendships, but the book contends with so much else, and the taut plot balloons with tension as August grows to understand a tragic realization about her family, one that will shape her for decades after.
But the homeiness is overdone: those apples gleam with preternatural life, the warm glow from the kitchen lamp gives the feel of a Norman Rockwell illustration.
But when Luda took the pie out of the oven — not as perfect as on TV, far from perfect, but warm and gleaming and fragrant — all her doubts disappeared.
But the Deborah Voigt of more than a decade ago, before her surgery to help shed excess weight, had a richer, warmer, more gleaming sound.
Cool, contemporary rooms combine modern tech with organic chic: all brick walls, warm wood and gleaming drench showers.
From thinking of new cheers, creating spirit items, to arduously planning for skits, and organizing and chairing intimate, small-scale, and festive, large-scale socials for all to attend and enjoy, this committee revolves around bringing warm smiles and gleaming eyes to our members within UC Berkeley Circle K.
What better time of the year to plan a bucket list of street art attractions than the summer, when the sun is out, the weather is warm and the saturated gleam of spray paint and wheat pastes is more appealing than ever?
It was a warm day: pale sunlight gleamed on the colossal steel silos of a fertiliser dispensary and bounced off the white roofs of television trucks.
And although the World Trade Center, unlike the Brooklyn Bridge or the Empire State Building, has not inspired droves of artists, a few have warmed to its gleaming aluminum charms.
Sunlight seems Most bright & warm where it most seldom gleams.
