How To Use Glamor In A Sentence
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In the tome, full of glamorous soft-focus pictures of the footballer, he waxes lyrical about the art of seduction, with fish his favourite weapon for luring girlfriends from the dining room to the boudoir.
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Instead, the headquarters are situated in a squat, brick building which seems rather unglamorous for the world of radio.
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The advertisements depict smoking as glamorous and attractive.
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Their romantic interplay is glamorized to its maximum expression.
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Viv was British rugby's pre-eminent full-back through the 1930s, last line and top dog for Wales and the Lions, an Oxford double blue, a Glamorgan cricketer and, conspicuously, the first full-back ever to score a try in a Five Nations match – against Ireland in 1934.
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Testing the new bike in the dizzying mountains north of glamorous Monaco, all of these improvements came together beautifully.
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In theory, this could be a smart strategic move but it is likely to "domesticate" Julian Assange; running such an NGO would require too many boring meetings with potential funders many of whom have already been alienated by the organisation and a nine-to-five office routine - the exact opposite of the glamorous nomadic lifestyle that the founder of WikiLeaks has become famous for.
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An egomaniacal celebrity author lives in Paris with his glamorous young second wife and his shy and unhappy grown-up daughter from his first marriage.
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The days of playing unglamorous locations like the South Morang Hotel are all over.
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It was hard to believe Lana had once thought of her as glamorous, even an adventuress.
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Glamorous guests mingle at the bar while jazz noodles in the background.
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The story goes that downtrodden Sophie works in a hat shop and one day meets the glamorous wizard Howl, a charming ladykiller who has garnered the reputation of eating girls' hearts, despite looking more like a ladyboy.
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She also brought along a pair of glamorously large sunnies which we're rather upset she didn't wear.
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It was destined to collapse, but it went in such a glamorous way.
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Few of the studios' prime big-budget offerings these days are reliant on glamorous big-paycheque names.
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Police departments would no longer have a ready supply of easy busts, where a lot of money and glamor is involved.
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I also want them to see how unglamorous the process is.
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The most glamorous newcomer to the Volkswagen Golf range is the revamped GTi 16 valve.
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My mum was extremely glamorous, beautiful and very into style and fashion.
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At first sight, they appear as alluring as a soft-top sports car - glamorous, flash and a little racy.
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It's set in a real city (Los Angeles) instead of a glamorized or revisionist version, like Gotham City.
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Feeding soldiers is not a glamorous business; for the most part it is an administrative function that goes unnoticed.
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However much the glamorous image of the corseted and gartered, smoky-voiced chanteuse remains, he says they never bought into that aspect of the culture.
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He stood upon a glamorously designed rug in which bore a peculiar star-shaped symbol sewn in red, the rug itself was black; it appeared he was in a strange cave.
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We wouldn't want anything glamorous, just basics such as a hot drinks dispenser during winter, a small TV to wile away the hours, comfy sofas, a small toilet and maybe a crèche for the little ones.
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It's flattering, glamorous and something to hide beneath.
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She led an exciting and glamorous life.
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The Drive programme will have extensive coverage throughout this glamorous event.
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Book well in advance for a massage at this glamorous 17th-century farmhouse outside Broadway.
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Predictably, producing gourmet food for celebrities from a makeshift kitchen can be far from glamorous.
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Such a glamorous home is a perk of the job for a wealthy international sportsman, the kind of holiday hideaway that footballers have long enjoyed.
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The whole place is impossibly glamorous and the wealth on display is something else.
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He had a glamorous life, flying to LA to appear as a celebrity lookalike at basketball games.
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Their ministerial responsibilities, however unglamorous, matter to thousands of people, as the family credit fiasco showed.
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By choosing to anchor her fiction within the realms in which most crime occurs, Mina eschews the glamorous settings of other, less realistic novels of the genre.
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But some of the silk eveningwear was fit for the most glamorous of parties, apron bibs floating across the chest then twisting into straps over the shoulders and asymmetrically across the back before dripping into a train.
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These leather sandals aren't platforms, but they look so glamorous that I couldn't resist mentioning them.
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I guess its not as glamorous as Montana or Alaska, but there are miles of uncrowded waters.
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an unglamorous job greasing engines
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And the glamorous lawyer showed she meant business earlier this week when she arrived at a Downing Street reception in a red figure-hugging outfit, upstaging the World Cup heroes in whose honour the reception was held.
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The power pose was one of those nuggets of glamorous research which gained instant global popularity.
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Their task has been consistent and unglamorous: encourage learning up to a prescribed level and foster social discipline.
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Talent Gazette, her hair done up in sophisticated curls, her chin nestled into a glamorous touch of white fur.
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Commanders were to deglamorize drinking, educate service members on its harmful effects, punish drunken driving severely, and de-emphasize alcohol at social functions.
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It might not look glamorous, but it will always be fresh and classic.
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Laurel Canyon (2003), each focused on an innocent young woman swept up in the glamorously baffling sex-and-drugs scene swirling around a charismatic older female artist, the situation here is reversed; unexpectedly drawn in to and fascinated by the ultra-domestic household created by a pair of charismatic femmes, the swinger is the straight man (literally).
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Unglamorous, usually unexciting and normally invisible , the world's financial plumbing is gummed up.
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tried to glamorize the bathroom with expensive fixtures.
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Being a burlesque dancer wasn't as glamorous as folk singing suddenly is.
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The pig whisperer: Author Jeffrey Masson explores the emotions of - and cruelty inflicted upon - the most unglamorous animals
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They could see how much they enjoyed actually selling and missed its intellectual challenge and glamor.
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The ship's more homely than glamorous, but it handles heavy seas well and should be just the thing for a little jaunt such as this.
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Most arrived at this condition as industry tumbled in the latter half of the past century; earlier they had been hard-edged, unglamorous communities of strivers.
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She went to glamorous parties and enjoyed exotic holidays.
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These extend to minor league stadiums as well, which shows off some of the non-glamorous locations of other parks, such as those within neighborhoods or other cities.
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Just over a year ago, to be a literary agent in the Anglo-American world of books must have seemed like the plummiest, most glamorous job imaginable.
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This is so far the only production directed by the glamorous French ballet star who is among the world's most famous ballerinas at present.
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Even with the occasional glamor and glitz of Chasm City's environment, and the unmistakable steampunk and William Gibson references in visuals and invention, the overall sense of doom and the obviously cold-blooded souls of the main characters would get to anybody (there is not a single good-natured human being along the way).
Alastair Reynolds "Chasm City" and "Revelation Space"
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The acclaim was richly deserved, but things were less glamorous from her point of view.
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On the face of it, coming up with and implementing these changes is dull, unglamorous work.
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Tennessee's attorney general had accused Wilson of glamouring -- glamorizing, that is, the smokeless tobacco brand Skoal.
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The battle to balance her books was far less glamorous.
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It never looks half as glamorous today, now that the motive power is diesel.
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The Rev David Knight, rural dean for Shipston deanery, said the money would be spent on ‘necessary but unglamorous’ masonry and glazing repairs.
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However much you try to dress it up, office work is not glamorous.
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He thanked them and followed their directions to the hotel, which as he guessed was ritzy and glamorous and all the things he never could afford to be.
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Her longtime hairstylist Kim Kimble tells People, "Even when she's dressing down, she will accessorize with items that make the outfi t pop or wear her hair in a glamorous style.
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Although it was less glamorous, it was still very comfortable.
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Television tends to glamorize acts of violence.
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Shapiro bills the series as an unglamorous look at life in the clink and the power of music as a means of rehabilitation.
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But please, don't stop name-dropping your glamorous existence in the sweaty cosmopolis on my account.
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In March it will reopen as a glamorous hotel within spitting distance of London.
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TV has been accused of glamorizing crime.
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Of all the lurgies he'd been testing for over the last three days, typhoid was by far the most glamorous.
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This accolade was accompanied by the wonderful spectacle of dweeby scientists getting narked because they invent everything yet remain unloved and unglamorous.
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Why, nothing more glamorous than a Greggs pasty.
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Getting up early and having the world to yourself is the cheapest way to feel glamorous.
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Parties, drugs, and a stream of glamorous women - his was a life in the fast lane.
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Want to buy underpriced apartments in a glamorous location that has few vacancies and little competition from new construction?
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In one glamorously posed shot, he's dressed in denim and a Stetson.
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He refrains from romanticizing or glamorizing his profession.
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While you probably imagined that my family tree was chock-a-block with international playboys and glamorous socialites, I actually come from a long line of caravanners.
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While that's certainly true of the Target Lady, Kristen did bite at my suggestion of a film chronicling the glamorous backstory of stage star-turned-game show flubber Mindy Grayson: "A Mindy Grayson movie," she says.
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To an outsider it may appear to be a glamorous job.
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I know she will appear poolside on that first morning and part of me won't recognise this glamorous young woman in her bikini.
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Our special supplement is packed with inspirational ideas for healthy and glamorous hair.
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Parties, drugs, and a stream of glamorous women - his was a life in the fast lane.
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For Surrey to miss out on the title nearest challengers Glamorgan have to win their final two games against Surrey and Derbyshire, and even then Sussex would only need three points from their remaining match at Worcester next week to be crowned champions.
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THERE'S something glamorous about being a sniper.
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard Rizzoli From the book 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard/Rizzoli Reuter table with shagreen and ivory marquetry From the book 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard/Rizzoli Collectionneur chest in black lacquer No designer has come to stand for the glamorous 1920s and '30s more definitively than Jacques Émile Ruhlmann, with his exquisite marquetry of ivory and rare woods, sumptuous textiles and gleaming metal accents.
All Hands on Deco
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Gisele Bündchen, in Versace, and Tom Brady: They just looked like the most glamorous couple there.
The art of looking like a star
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Bruce's office is a corner one, utilitarian and unglamorous.
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It doesn't come with the glamorous hernia ‘bulge,’ so my HMO's team of medical geniuses had it pegged as an abdominal strain for three months.
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They were hatcheck and cigarette girls, dancers in chorus lines, singers with small bands and combos, and glamorous frequenters of night spots.
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In Mid Glamorgan the teacher placement organiser is able to use the existing communication network to schools and business.
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When Suzanne Lenglen, the predictably glamorous French tennis star of the 1920s often dressed by Jean Patou, wore a knee-length dress with three-quarter sleeves to win Wimbledon in 1919, she opened the flood gates of "risqué" tennis fashion, which soon included Helen Jacobs in shorts at Forest Hills in 1933 and Gussy Moran in those much-photographed lace knickers beneath her tennis skirt at Wimbledon in 1949.
Serving an Ace on the Courts
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This program is a command-level alcohol abuse prevention and deglamorization course designed for all hands.
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Reviewers of his novels in India have long complained that his exoticised India-English dialogues glamorise the harsh realities of life in the former British colony.
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It is time to do the unglamorous job of sweating the assets a bit harder.
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The car crawled at 11 miles per hour, as excited onlookers cheered the smiling President and his glamorous wife.
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All those beautiful women will make swimming seem more glamorous to the rest of the world.
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Often when players leave big clubs for less glamorous surrounds, they find it hard to adapt.
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His early life was glamorous beyond belief.
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The Dior scandal came a week after Vogue's profile of Syria's first lady, who is described as glamorous, young and very chic - "a rose in the desert.
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It will also require a great deal of hard, technical and politically unglamorous work.
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Three non-glamorous examples are spam catching, obscenity blocking, and terrorist interception.
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The equally glamorous Einstein's Cross, composed of five fiery white balls in a deep blue field haloed by a flickering ring of red, is closely based on a Hubble telescope image taken off the Internet.
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It has a more glamorous look, also called 'emo de luxo'.
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It could be funny and a touch mischievous - one self-regarding, supposedly glamorous female TV anchor frostily asked her to desist from addressing her as ‘ma'am’ during a live interview.
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The movie has fascinating echoes and anticipations of films like Casablanca, Paths of Glory and Lawrence of Arabia, and it tells an unglamorous truth about fear among the officer classes.
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Can there be a more glamorous way to face our mortality?
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Despite his gradual ascent up the World Cup rankings, his lifestyle has remained far from glamorous.
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Their videos evoked a glamorous existence, globetrotting around tropical locations; they were sharply dressed; they went out with supermodels; their lead singer had nearly drowned in a yacht race.
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But the nobility, though not always noble, are always depicted as elegant and glamorous.
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Steve told Tim it's best to avoid buying glamorous houses, and slums.
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Glamorous stage performers like Jane Hading, Lily Elsie and Billie Burke were adulated by male and female fans who bought millions of postcards with their images, read thousands of magazines that featured their 'private' lives, and, in the case of women especially, closely followed and often copied their every fashion move.
Evelyne Politanoff: After Hats comes Staging Fashion at the Bard Graduate Center
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She described her look for the film as ‘completely unglamorous, almost no make-up, bit of a dumpy potato’.
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The Berkeley Court Hotel's opulent ballroom with its lofty ceiling, tall mirrors and huge chandeliers offers the perfect backdrop for a glamorous night.
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It was great to see a photo of you all toffed up too, you glamorous thing!
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‘I act as the glamorous spokesmodel,’ Newmark says.
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Preventing and treating fistulas is far from as glamorous as microfinance, but imagine the impact.
Rebecca Kantar: What I Would Do with $29 Million
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It must have seemed so simple for a man once fêted as one of most glamorous entrepreneurs of his generation.
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She sent photos of herself posing in her underwear, a bikini and a glamorous ballgown.
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Mrs. Glamorys herself gave "At Homes," every Sunday afternoon, and so, on the morrow, after a sleepless night mitigated by perpended sonnets, the love-sick young tutor presented himself by invitation at the beautiful old house in Hampstead.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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About this collection: Romantic, exotic, glamorous or abstract: thisspring's floral patterns provide an injection of creativity and a loveof fashion into your wardrobe.
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The exhibit consists of a heavily grommeted rocket ship and glamorously adorned gravity boots.
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Performing a whimsical mix of popular German chansons and original compositions alongside Cuban rumbas, cheery foxtrots, elegant tangos and covers of modern pop songs, Palast has earned rave reviews and standing ovations in glamorous concert halls across the globe.
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Barbara has won countless Glamorous Grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977.
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One of her roles was to design the glamorous costumes that the studio's film stars would wear to premieres and film festivals.
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The Peter-Dale affair is spicy enough, but Melanie's on-again, off-again fling with a younger reporter is rather coyly handled, and the glamorous president seems doomed to celibacy.
Review of "Eighteen Acres," a political thriller by Nicolle Wallace
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It's hard to say what's worse: a summer blockbuster that treats death with video game flippancy or a dour bit of Oscar bait like this, pretending to legitimise ‘necessary’ violence through glamorous gunfire.
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So the sets look glamorous and glossy, yet the lighting creates startling contrasts between light and shadow.
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Okay, before we got on the subject of where I work, I'll just say that it's not glamorous or ritzy or anything like that.
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The power pose was one of those nuggets of glamorous research which gained instant global popularity.
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She's being called impossibly glamorous -- the French president's new wife is drawing frenzied comparisons to Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
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Reagan's massive military buildup had sacrificed unglamorous functions like transport ships "sealift" and minesweepers to pay for high-tech programs like "Star Wars," stealth technology, fighter aircraft, attack subs and cruise missiles.
Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part I of II
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The rear party's jobs were unglamorous, but we could not have survived without it.
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War
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Lynne also defended her daughter's photo spread in OK! mag as many people were saying it "glamorized" teen pregnancy.
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It's all about glamorous gizmos, like the D. J.-tested, matte-black TMA-1 headphones from the Danish company AIAIAI (tma-1. com), which go on sale later this summer
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How else to explain her deglamorized look and dowdy outfit?
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Working as a political organiser is in fact not at all glamorous in fact it is pretty boring.
Exposing the Real Face of New Labour
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Or the way that many people invent glamorous exes to boost their own cachet.
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Celebrities made places like Studio glamorous to those who wanted to be celebs.
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It's too bad that our soap operas only show the glamorous and comfy lifestyles of the upper class.
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In most people's eyes, Shanghai was an extremely glamorous city during that period, with a splendid variety of entertainment venues for revelries.
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In America, this would have been a simple task — picking out from the sea of glamorous, young faces the occasional laughline of an Oprah, Martha Stewart or one of the consecutive series of models and celebrities on the cover of More Magazine.
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None of this will make vaccines as glamorous - or as profitable - as drugs.
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Forbidden Fruit offsets a studio photo portrait of an innocently luscious teenage girl with a Gourmet magazine cover featuring glamorously lit ripe pomegranates.
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Barbara has won countless glamorous grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977.
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Nostalgia for glamorous times gone by is evident in most of the fashionable ranges.
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Sci-fi tends to glamorize laser weapons (pew pew, you're dead), when in reality the experts say getting "shot" with will probably feel more like napalm (* sizzle sizzle*, protracted death).
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Her unglamorous look was her stock-in-trade while her professional skills always kept her in high demand on stage, film, radio and television.
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The work is often unglamorous and yields few headlines, and that makes it all the more vital.
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He's made a certain class of technologists into celebrities and has even glamorized technology itself.
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Glamorgan sausages contain neither flesh nor fish nor fowl, but cheese and leeks.
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Yet the woman who finds a genuinely protective mate in a less glamorous man may still feel romantically deprived.
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Cindy had the decency to get dressed, at least, although she was dressed in a ridiculously glamorous dress with lace and frills.
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Looked at one way, at the top of the pile is the apparent new trend, beloved of Sunday supplements, for glamorous camping, or "glamping".
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A report by Demos, a UK-based think tank, advises that groups like al Qaeda must be “de-glamorized” and shown as “incompetent, narcissistic and irreligious.”
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But you could be surprised when you make a sensible love choice rather than a more glamorous one.
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My mum was extremely glamorous, beautiful and very into style and fashion.
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While it may not enjoy the most glamorous of reputations, quilting is making a comeback: in 2010 the V&A will launch one of the finest quilting exhibitions in the world and introduce a brand new audience to the craft.
Festival of Quilts
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But for me, its certainly not the money and its not the glamorous lifestyle.
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So who was this daring woman, who ranks alongside the likes of glamorous adventurers such as Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham?
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The glamorous Danish fiddler Nikolaj Znaider was the soloist in Brahms's Violin Concerto, a big concert opener, on the whole well played, though Znaider's slender tone occasionally sounded pushed to fill the space.
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The two, Switzerland's most glamorous diplomatic couple, have acquired a reputation as partygoers in Berlin.
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I always wanted to be a record producer as it seemed glamorous.
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The killing is an easy thing for him to talk about, particularly if he makes it sound as though he's a hit man, because that's kind of glamorized in our culture.
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Along the way there's a lot of booty-shaking from glamorous assistants and some dazzling close-up magic, not least a perplexing trick in which Whistler's mother is stripped to her scanties.
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Yet it's often these realistic, unglamorous details which give his women their grace, their vitality, their uncensored sensuality.
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The incident also offered us a glimpse of the glamorous, sometimes expensive, globe trotting lifestyle of a successful wine merchant.
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Getting up early and having the world to yourself is the cheapest way to feel glamorous.
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Such negative stereotypes are often reinforced by pervasive media images which portray the young as capable and glamorous.
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The techniques here are not exciting and glamorous.
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This is a good time to put some effort into the less glamorous side of gardening, although creating the perfect tilth can be rewarding in itself.
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Glamorous guests mingle at the bar while jazz noodles in the background.
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In other words, instead of glamorizing Sarah like The Times did with this biker edition Cover Girl photo and the movie lot "Easy Rider" title, what if the media published photos of Team Palin -- in this case, at Sunday's Rolling Thunder veteran POW/MIA motorcycle ride starting at the Pentagon -- as the flimflam they really are?
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: What if the Media Stopped Sensationalizing Sarah Palin?
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He became like a male ballet dancer - a support to lift up his glamorous partner and help her turn beautiful pirouettes.
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If children hear people singing and rapping about drugs, sex, money, and killing in a glamorous way, then it may lead them to believe that this negative life is one they should live.
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A drab, austere society had suddenly been plunged into a more competitive, glamorized world in the 1970s and 1980s.
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It is photographed in glamorous monochrome that mixes black and white and all pearly shades in between.
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If you're looking for a glamorous night out, bathed in the glow of candlelight with the unassuming murmur of trip hop in the background, than you've come to the wrong place.
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The Vale of Glamorgan member said he came under fierce pressure from the constituency party and the Whips' office.
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You can be stuck in a hotel, a thousand miles away in a different time zone, and it is never glamorous.
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Yet the woman who finds a genuinely protective mate in a less glamorous man may still feel romantically deprived.
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She's also distinctly unimpressed with the glamorous side of fame.
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Did the dirty, unglamorous work very well.
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It arose as a consequence of the Norman conquest and settlement of the Vale of Glamorgan in the early twelfth century.
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Gold, silver and bronze style staples are setting the scene for an ultraglamorous summer.
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The curators have set out to draw together the threads left dangling from Shanghai's glamorous interwar years.
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Long ago, the fronton was a glamorous venue, where high-society folks came to place bets on the fast-paced game and where celebrities performed.
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Meantime, revealing and expressing the micro- power relations , which Zhang Xian has done in his dramas, is the de-glamorization to these powermysteries in the mainstream dialogues.
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From a business point of view, these are not the most glamorous companies.
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Marriage is still glamorous and still thought to include, as an aspiration, lifelong sexual fidelity.
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The power pose was one of those nuggets of glamorous research which gained instant global popularity.
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And a glamorous life of celebrity appearances and product endorsements lay ahead?
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Sitting with him, it struck me this is not work at the glamorous end of life.
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The Orange British Academy Film Awards is one of the most glamorous events in the prize-giving calendar and draws a list of top name guests.
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The advertisements depict smoking as glamorous and attractive.
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Travel became glamorous and fast, entertainment a mass industry and advertising spending mushroomed to feed the growth in consumerism.
