Word: glittering
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...Geneva, Richard frankly admits he hopes it will help him get back into the House of Commons. "If it goes well, obviously, some of the glitter is going to rub off," he says. "If it goes badly, presumably a fair amount of odium will rub off. That's just a fact of life." To the extent that his future depends on his success at the Rhodesian conference, what is good for Ivor Richard may very well be good for Britain...
This question is not as flippant as Hubert makes it sound. Indeed, it has theological overtones that echo through the novel. Behind the glitter and chatter...
...writing." At home he wrote songs by day, but on weekends he enjoyed himself playing countrified rock 'n' roll at the ancient Fort Pierce Hotel. It was a class act. His group bought white tuxedos from the Salvation Army, dyed them pink and covered the lapels with glitter...
...image, however, is not a saint or a magdalen but that sibylline bitch of the fin-de-siècle imagination, the Fatal Woman, La Belle Dame sans Merci-enigmatic as a sphinx, cruelly indifferent as a Byzantine empress, wearing the features of the Divine Sarah and the aggressive glitter of a vintage Cadillac fender...
...finished as a large political power in the country. And no matter how much credit he and the others around him took for waging a campaign without compromise, they had fallen back on expediency-and it had not worked. Reagan had shown an opportunism that really had tarnished the glitter of the goal he so often invoked: his shining city on a hill...