Word: gleaming
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...moved the chairs around myself to face the fire," said Carter. There was the slightest gleam of perspiration on his upper...
...Abbott of Theleme, The whole Cardinals' College, or The Pope himself to see in dream Before his Lenten vision gleam, He lies there, the sockdolager...
...Dallas was only a wicked gleam in David Jacobs' eye. Jacobs, a balding, cherubic man who was then story editor of ABC's Family, had the idea for an hourlong series, "a sort of American Scenes from a Marriage. "Richard Burger, then head of dramatic development at CBS, suggested that Jacobs "try something rich and Southwestern instead of middle-class and Californian." Recalls Jacobs: "I went home and wrote a letter to myself about this terribly good-looking, semitrashy lady who marries into a rich Texas family." Jacobs envisioned this character, Pamela Barnes Ewing, taking on heroic proportions...
...which often guarantees 52 weeks of employment, creates a debilitating schedule. Says a New York Philharmonic string player: "If you're into the 40th week of the season and some conductor arrives fresh as a daisy, you can't expect 110 overworked people to have the same gleam in the eye that he does...
...incapacitated her, she was a nurse and a census enumerator. Afterward no one would hire her. "Lots of people who are capable of working don't get the opportunity," she says. Except for a pet rabbit named Kortina, she lives alone. The linoleum floors in her living room gleam. The white curtains above the radiator seem to have just come from the wash and the ironing board. "I'm going to do more work for the city," she says proudly. "I wish more people in more towns could do the same thing...