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Glamour in sentence

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None of the glamour that you see today existed.
Ma Thida said, "We Burmese are noted for our tremendous grace under pressure, but we also have grievance under glamour."
That detail and depth, that glamour gives the plaza a theatrical quality.
You might be wondering why I'm wearing sunglasses, and one answer to that is, because I'm here to talk about glamour.
So, we all think we know what glamour is.
But there is a glamour of industry.
And there's the mythic glamour of the garage entrepreneur.
There's the glamour of physics.
And there is, of course, this glamour.
So what do we mean by glamour?
Well, one thing you can do if you want to know what glamour means is you can look in the dictionary.
Because for centuries, glamour had a very particular meaning, and the word was actually used differently from the way we think of it.
You had "a" glamour.
But still, glamour is an illusion.
And there's something dangerous about glamour throughout most of history.
Well of course, in the 20th century, glamour came to have this different meaning associated with Hollywood.
There was a tremendous amount of technical achievement associated with creating this Hollywood glamour.
And I think that that's starting to get at what the core that combines all sorts of glamour is.
She is graceful, she is mysterious and she is transcendent, and those are the central qualities of glamour.
That's glamour: that's Michelangelo's "Pieta," where Mary is the same age as Jesus and they're both awfully happy and pleasant.
As I said earlier, glamour does not have to be about people, but it has to have this transcendent quality.
And this sense of being transported is one reason that we have glamour styling.
In order to pull glamour off, you need this Renaissance quality of sprezzatura, which is a term coined by Castiglione in his book, "The Book Of The Courtier."
"To conceal all art and make whatever is done or said appear to be without effort": And this is one of the critical aspects of glamour.
So, this session's supposed to be about pure pleasure but glamour's really partly about meaning.
"The Matrix" is a movie that is all about glamour.
I could do a whole talk on "The Matrix" and glamour.
Because glamour can be very totalitarian and deceptive.
There's a glamour shot.
National Socialism is all about glamour.
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