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glister

[glis-ter] / ˈglɪs tər /


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Brian Sewell, enemy of conceptualism and all things contemporary, once wrote, "They offer nothing but a moment's glister and demand no contemplation."

From The Guardian • May 18, 2013

United head for Coventry, where they hope to glister in front of Gould.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2013

But those verses glister, still, if you only give them a chance, their fathomless shadows a mystery, and a balm.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2012

He looked hopefully at Bogert, who was still blandly neat and whose inner tension was perhaps betrayed only by the trace of glister at his temples.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

These are made of straw, stiffened by great heat, and so well polished, that they glister in the sun like a mirror or well polished helmet.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert




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