shiny

“The Substance” opens and closes on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, showing Elisabeth’s star, which starts off shiny and degrades over time.

In the case of Joyce, she can put on a bright shiny façade, but at home she is slamming doors and crying into her pillow out of frustration.

The only thing lacking was shiny wrapping paper and a bright red bow.

Jeff Bezos, once a man of clean-cut navy suits and traditional business wear, now dons tight white pants, maximalist print button-ups and shiny leather bombers.

Granted, “Out of Time’s” earworm “Shiny Happy People” is gratingly banal, but the album also features spoken-word passages, brooding bass lines and ghostly steel-guitar drone.