glamour

Not with the glamour of a ‘Hunger Games’ spectacle, but the machinations of the state are the same.

It landed just as shoppers were loading up on boxed meals and non-perishable eats, a dissonance that feels almost poetic: a culture clinging to glamour even as the cupboards start to echo.

The glamour of Wall Street had replaced the dignity of the skilled laborer.

In the end, the party offered all the glamour of a literary fantasy, but the timing reminded observers that reality has its own narrative.

Much as there is for its fans to mourn about the alleged closure of the “Downton Abbey” franchise, I won’t miss the increasingly tone-deaf genuflection before the glamour of British privilege.