Word: glinting
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...woman's nude figure in dark silhouette stands by a river against an unearthly sunset - or is it moonrise? Flowers and grasses glow with an inner light. Her face is partly hidden by her flute and by the snake draped round her neck - we see only the pale glint of the whites of her eyes. Rousseau said that when he visited Paris' Botanic Gardens he felt transported: "When I am in the greenhouses and see the strange plants from exotic countries, it is as though I am experiencing a dream." His words ring true when you gaze at his deep...
...doing a De Niro, growing a beard and cocooning himself in flab. The actor must want to prove that his star quality is more than just Cary Grant looks and a stud's sly aplomb. It is. Here he seduces the viewer into looking closer, to catch the eye glint of skeptical intelligence, the interior burden that a samurai for the CIA bears with weary grace, and for reasons he may have forgotten or never known...
...glass rear window provides minimal views. The cockpit feels sports-car Spartan; our test car featured a two-tone "sand-and-steel, " design scheme, with a five-speed manual shifter (don't ask for an automatic, Pontiac isn't making one). Those bezels around the gauges? They have the glint of chrome but turn out to be plastic. Then there's the question, which may arise on a weekend jaunt, of how to transport a couple grocery bags with the top down. Stowing the soft top is a snap: just press a button, unlatch a hook and it folds into...
...charisma that a lot of contemporary actors have is the threat of madness. A cockeyed glint, a sudden shout, a shift of body weight--these tricks keep you watching, like a doting pathologist, to catch the moment an actor goes edifyingly nuts. It's sexy, this promise to grab viewers and lead them down a treacherous path. It's also the surest route to an Oscar...
...wanted to see Agassi fight the good fight (he did, falling down two sets and a break before chipping away at Blake’s lead). And perhaps most of all, they wanted to see for themselves that Agassi, the recent subject of rampant retirement speculation, still had that glint in his eye, that staunch refusal to concede in his stride...