glister
Example Sentences
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Behind the Trumpian glister of gold lies an apocalyptic story of once luscious rain forests reduced to smoldering vistas and biodiverse rivers poisoned with mercury and cyanide.
From New York Times
There is too much attention on the glister of glory, and not enough on the guts.
From The Guardian
And yet the reputation of the spice, dubbed "red gold", still does not glister quite as brightly as perhaps it should.
From BBC
To quote William Shakespeare, “All that glisters is not gold.”
From New York Times
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
