Outside all was glitter, excess, posturing, and brand names.

Oblonsky's eyes began to glitter merrily.

This ring has lost its glitter.

Virginia Postrel on glamour

Glamour is about editing.

I could do a whole talk on The Matrix and glamour.

Indeed, conspicuous glamour and excess are not uncommon among Mexico's richest citizens.

Nelson Mandela inherited that glamour indeed, he personified it.

Why should home values in glamour cities increase forever?

None of the glamour that you see today existed.

The Matrix is a movie that is all about glamour.

Apart from the pandals and idols, there were the decorative lights that gave the city its glitter by night.

This may amplify any price declines, especially in glamour cities and those with weakening economies.

Leyla Aliyeva, Ilham and Mehriban's younger daughter and a queen of the glamour scene in capital Baku.

So, we all think we know what glamour is. Here it is.

It's why barware is glamorous. Glamour is translucent not transparent, not opaque.

'Well, and what have you been doing?' she asked, looking him in the eyes, which had a suspicious glitter in them.

That's glamour that's Michelangelo's Pieta, where Mary is the same age as Jesus and they're both awfully happy and pleasant.

But all farmers are winners!!!!! with no rhinestones nor glitter !!!! Long live the farmers, long live all women !!!!

With his Kenyan father, he carries the glamour once associated with Third World liberation movements.

The Euro is weak it has none of the glamour hoped for at its launch last year.

Because for centuries, glamour had a very particular meaning, and the word was actually used differently from the way we think of it.

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.

There's a wonderful book called Crowns that's all these glamour pictures of black women in their church hats.

They could use it to parade their fancy cars (regardless of whether they own them or are just renting them to show off during vacation) and all their glitter.

Australia's federal government says the aim is to deter young people from smoking by stripping the habit of glamour.

Through the young birches, Venus bright and silvery, was already shining with her delicate glitter low down in the west and high up in the east flickered the red fire of the dim Arcturus.

'Yes, they divert all the sap, they produce a false glamour,' he muttered, pausing, and feeling that she was looking at him he turned round smiling.

Unlike Mongolia, whose name conjures a certain glamour to complement the remoteness, the 'Stans' convey an obscurity stripped of all romance.

What could be more glamorous than understanding the entire universe, grand unification? And, by the way, it helps if you're Brian Greene he has other kinds of glamour.

In a timely talk, cultural critic Virginia Postrel muses on the true meaning, and the powerful uses, of glamour which she defines as any calculated, carefully polished image designed to impress and persuade.

It is true that two horrendous world wars have taken the glamour out of war for most Europeans (Britain is a slightly different story).

This is likely to be the case for glamour cities in which international celebrities, entertainment industries, world class universities, or high technology industries are located.

When that happens, the glamour of America's long boom will vanish, the notion of the new economy will be as forgotten as last year's fashions.

In glamour cities, newspaper articles feature stories of homes that sold well above asking price, and 45 of respondents in the 2003 survey reported selling at above asking prices in San Francisco.

Mayawati s weakness for bling has been demonstrated at her extravagant birthday parties, which she presides over laden with diamonds, saying (rather like Evita Peron) that her luster brings glamour and dignity to her people.

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.

The vacation home boom appears psychologically tied to the urban home price bubble in many of the world s glamour cities, and prices of these vacation homes are similarly vulnerable to a significant drop in coming years.

And there's something dangerous about glamour throughout most of history. When the witches cast a magic spell on you, it was not in your self interest it was to get you to act against your interest.

This would happen I, knowing beforehand that matters would never be allowed to reach a dangerous point, should have challenged a man in order to cover myself with false glamour.

Their risks today are often big due to real estate bubbles in such glamour cities as London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, Moscow, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Sydney, Melbourne, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami.

This mini documentary begins with the Modernism era of the early 20th century, bringing out icons like the beloved former first lady Eva Perón, a big symbol in the country's history, and the actress and glamour model Isabel Coca Sarli, considered the quintessential sex symbol of Argentina.

The golden glitter on the crimson background of the iconostasis, the gilt ornaments of the icons, the silver of the chandeliers and candlesticks, the flagstones of the floor, the mats, the banners above the choir, the steps of the ambo, the ancient books black with age, the cassocks and surplices, were all inundated with light.

The Euro is weak it has none of the glamour hoped for at its launch last year. Besides, European governments remain defensive no important labor market reforms nor initiatives aimed at deregulation are underway.

This may mean that buyers will not allow prices to rise like last time, but it could also mean that owners will be more ready to exit from the market. This may amplify any price declines, especially in glamour cities and those with weakening economies.