Word: lustrously
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...months passed, the treatments became more intense. My mother, once a healthy woman, became weak and frail. Her frame, always petite, became even smaller in the hospital bed. Her lustrous black hair fell out in clumps, revealing her smooth brown head. Even though she tried to remain optimistic, her eyes became long...
...Rohde, 42, an intensely jaunty adventurer with a silent-movie villain's mustache and enough gigantic native earrings dangling from his left lobe to fill a display case in a Nairobi Tiffany's, is a fine artist whose drawings from his world travels cued many of the park's lustrous images...
...news of our own tabloidy times is just the recurrence of something eternal in human nature. Weegee's world is one where the cops have just beaten the suspect, where the crowd leers at the beauty queen and where the accused nanny gazes into the camera. His world is lustrous, crowded, carnal and guilty. Sound familiar...
...then there is Diana, the woman who was, all by herself, the punctum of the late 20th century. She was, for one thing, the princess and the pauper, the improbably lustrous creature who also carried her (our?) mere humanity into the throne room. Sometimes the grief at her death seemed out of proportion, but only if you forgot the real question it presented: If the most luminous woman in the world can die, what hope is there for the rest...
...appurtenances of wealth are well known--the Range Rovers and Rolexes, the little Chanel purses and the personal chefs trained in the Pritikin diet. But in the horse country around Warrenton, Va., a lustrous green pocket one hour from Washington where the Mellons and Kennedys have homes, the wealthy have a little-known luxury. It's the imported Argentine polo player, a man who can do a lot for your game--and if you happen to be one of the available local horsewomen, escort you home afterward...