Word: glitteringly
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...with Sutter, are so hip and ironic and jaded that they can't imagine--indeed, they would be embarrassed by and scornful of--the meaning of the novel they inhabit. John Henry Days is a narrative tour de force that astonishes on almost every page, but it generates more glitter and brilliance than warmth...
...career in cycling propelled him from the anonymity of local races to the glitter of European and World Championship events as a member of the French national team. The rider, who asks to be identified only as Michel, says his fondest memories are of the "incomparable euphoria of strength and power I'd get finding myself at the head of a tired and flagging pack, knowing I was about to pull away and ride to victory." But like a growing number of athletes, Michel attained such elation the wrong way. He eventually realized that performance-enhancing substances had ensnared...
...against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its political front Sinn Fein. But the process is stuck in neutral, perhaps drifting backward. Last week, British prime minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern convened talks with Ulster politicians at Hillsborough Castle near Belfast. All the pomp and glitter, and an IRA statement that it was talking again with the international body in charge of putting paramilitary weapons beyond use, could not hide the lack of tangible progress on a Rubik's Cube of sticking points. Unionists want the IRA not just to gab about weapons disposal...
...have people think they listen to all the time. The party bulged at the seams with hundreds of middle-aged men in black (many of them also bulging at the seams) and girls (though many were actually mature women in their late teens) sequined and wearing this season's glitter makeup...
...products as the $12 Special Hits, 10 lip glosses and eye shadows contained in a CD case. "The music scene is driving the young scene," says president Ira Adler, explaining why his company packaged the makeup that way. "Britney and some of the other music groups are bursting with glitter and cosmetics." Kiss Products, a leading manufacturer of artificial nails, has licensed Disney characters like Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse to sell its nail products...