glitz

Example Sentences

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I worked there for a couple of years, and very quickly realized that the glitz and glamour that you see on TV is not exactly the reality.

From The Wall Street Journal

What else, I wondered, lay hidden in the glitz?

From The Wall Street Journal

The glitz and glamour of the Strictly ballroom or the Emerald City in Wicked seem like a world away from a south London trading estate.

From BBC

"Filmmakers have been progressively lured by tax incentives that come from shooting movies in other parts of the world, and the Los Angeles film industry has lost its glitz and glamour."

From BBC

Viewed from Orange County, L.A. is the flagship of the fleet of the absurd, the dreamland of pitchmen and grifters, the progenitor of wicked Hollywood glitz and drive-by shootings.

From Los Angeles Times