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112 examples of Glittering in a sentence

Instead, he went on to build a glittering empire of department stores.
And my biggest worry is that we're creating a world where we're going to have glittering technologies embedded in kind of a shabby society and supported by an economy that generates inequality instead of opportunity.
He's 6 foot 9. He's outfitted head to toe in this glittering bronze armor, and he's got a sword and he's got a javelin and he's got his spear.
Now, I'm not saying that this whole body-love thing has been an easy skip along a glittering path of self-acceptance since that day in class.
George Cukor's The Women remains one of the glittering gems of 1939, Hollywood's most golden of golden years.
Unlike one of the reviewers below, I don't think that a great and glittering career should lie ahead for the director of this inept and tedious piece of navel-gazing.
His dumb self fails the test and gets up off the alter glittering with myme makeup and jumps of the stage of a night club and dances like a clown on crack!!!
From all the art-house films I have seen, "distant" is the one that really stands out as a glittering piece of gold.
Mankiewicz's New York City is a glittering flurry of art deco colour and movement, a fantasy world so completely removed from reality that even the business of underground gambling and criminal thuggery seems perfectly genial.
Mark Sandrich's previous film, 'Top Hat (1935),' completely ignored the Great Depression that was then bringing America to its knees, and presented audiences with a glittering world of the rich and famous; it was the film's optimistic outlook on life that perhaps contributed to its success.
I thought the boy who played Juliette Binoche's son was terrific and should have a glittering career ahead of him.
...and being an icon of outrageously glittering entertainment, people resent their idea of a scatterbrain can actually being able to act and speak like normal people.
None of the British mini-series that found their way across the Atlantic stand as a greater achievement than "The Glittering Prizes."
A surviving b/w reel-to-reel videotape of a 1958 (or 1959) BBC broadcast shows Ms. Holiday- beautiful, regal, but somewhat melancholy (with hair severely pulled back and in a glittering dress)- stylishly reciting with piano accompaniment for 3 minutes of what must be the earliest surviving videotape ever recorded-- and just a scant 5 months before her death.
The contrast is a little too pat: surely some of the environments -- and there is one, at the train station -- off duty are as glittering and new as the World stage shows.
In fact, the Leave camp is dominated by people in England and Wales who feel cut off from the gains of globalization, and voted against the privileges and riches of the glittering global megacity of London.
At midnight, a new national goods and services tax (GST) had come into effect at a glittering ceremony in India’s parliament.
For seven years, Chinese officials and artists worked tirelessly to make this dream of a “renaissance” a glittering reality, and they exceeded all expectations.
To call these people’s ostentatious displays of extravagance wasteful is to miss the point: a world of glittering dreams that must remain entirely beyond our grasp is precisely what many people want to see.
Consider the divide between the London region, which increasingly resembles a glittering global super-metropolis, and the rest of the country.
It’s in my hand on this occasion as I look out over the Bosphorus on a glittering March morning.
Plagiarism is one of the few acts that can bring a glittering academic career to a halt.
To get a sense of the island city-state’s meteoric rise, one need only compare the glittering metropolis depicted in “Crazy Rich Asians” with the hut-filled fishing village depicted in the 1940 classic comedy, “Road to Singapore,” starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, and Bob Hope.
For example, the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens were supposed to turn Greece into a glittering and dynamic modern economy.
It is not likely that northern elites will stand by idly as a fresh attempt is made to take away what they consider a glittering prize.
Then you see equally small white spots glittering from black space over your head.
Donors should support an education policy rather than build a photogenic school; aid a health campaign rather than construct a glittering clinic; or do both – but as part of a policy or a campaign, not as stand-alone projects.
There is something deeply jarring about the glittering new projects that sit cheek by jowl with the poverty of the favelas and the juxtaposition of extravagant ceremony and the depth of the political and economic crises facing Brazil.
One new conclusion is that America's economic performance is not as glittering as previously thought.
During her tenure at the Fund, she has wisely listened to a glittering array of chief economists: Olivier Blanchard, Maurice Obstfeld, and Gita Gopinath.
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