Sentences with phrase «lustre of»

As you got a bit older though, and it seemed to become a bit more difficult to get off work early enough for Trick - Or - Treating, the lustre of the holiday faded somewhat.

Wolfgang Tillmans and Gary Hume (whom you might think similar to Opie because they celebrate beautiful contemporary people) depict real icons and stars among the young clubbers and artists; the lustre of a Kate Moss has a destabilising effect and is anything but reassuring to the viewer.

Here and throughout the works in the exhibition, Currin captures the tones and textures of real life with acute sensitivity — using multiple layers of paint to evoke patterned fabrics, translucent flesh, or the lustre of porcelain or ripe fruit.

Half - Genie Hero may be light on innovation, but it gleams with the lustre of a magic lamp.

To give it the added lustre of the name of Penguin I find worrying, unless they are going to up its game massively,» Pool said.

Alien: Covenant confirms another disheartening fact: every time the thrice Oscar - nominated director from South Shields revisits his beautifully stylised universe, he tarnishes the golden lustre of the original film.

But here it's imbued with the eye - catching lustre of momentousness - in - waiting.

Graphically, Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions is an extremely mixed bag on the PlayStation 2 and unfortunately lacks all the lustre of the XBox version.

It has chilling brilliance and icy exactitude, filmed in black and white with the lustre of liquid nitrogen, and its director, Michael Haneke, achieves a new refinement of mastery and audacity.

The Jungle Book is a big disappointment which fails to capture the life and lustre of both its source material and its predecessors.

Keep them away from household chemicals including perfume, makeup and hairspray as they will dull the lustre of your pearls.

Joined with fine golden bars, reminiscent of airy gossamers, it shimmers beautifully as if filled with the lustre of the precious yellow metal.

Heretics and orthodox alike sought for their writings the lustre of the great names of the past.

The lustre of the present hour is always borrowed from the background of possibilities it goes with.

Some analysts have been concerned that BlackBerry's launch came too late to recover the lustre of its name.

Not exact matches

«This was a company and a stock that could do no wrong for so long and it's a good reminder for investors that even the most pristine of stories in the stock markets can lose a bit of lustre over time,» said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

Even special dividends are beginning to lose their lustre, the fund managers said, particularly when viewed in the context of paltry organic investment figures.

It may now be impossible to separate economic gains from our desire to reach the final frontier, but the rise of space tourism may bring back some of the lustre.

We are confident the stock will regain some of its lustre.

Is this the year income trusts lose some of their lustre?

If the company is to regain its lustre — or at least keep from losing even more of it — it's going to need to stay away from iterative and get back to innovative.

Mutual Funds Canada catering to the: Investor — Advisor — and Fundco — Advertising Marketing and Distribution of Canadian Mutual Funds - By: Mutual Fund The entire Canadian mutual fund industry with all it's virtues and downfalls has had a lack of participant marketplace growth and much lustre has diminished even further with bad markets overall -LSB-...]

Or in Newman's marvelous phrase: «It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples» feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.»

I painted both my unicorn horn and ears with edible gold lustre dust too but if you want to be strict Paleo then just pop some of the fondant in the food processor with a small amount of turmeric until you get the shade of yellow you love.

Major investments resulted in this product that stands the heavy friction of the bottling line, retaining its lustre.

And to be honest many of the recipes I have exhausted in the past year or so have been a bit lack lustre.

The Coca - Cola Co's downward trajectory In yet one more sign that The Coca - Cola Co is losing its lustre, the soft drinks maker has, for the first time, fallen out of the top ten of a «world's... read more

For reliably detecting foreign bodies, a metal detector was out of the question because an aluminium coating has been applied to the paper cups to give them a silver lustre.

Ok, I'll admit that I have been thinking of making panna cotta for a long time, but you have to agree that it is a bit lack lustre compared to a layered cake or chocolate cookies.

We looked very lack lustre for about the first 20 minutes of the second half, we were not pressing, and inviting West Ham onto us.

«It's been our goal to improve our position on the pitch, and create an environment for players to want to play in Liverpool and bring some of the lustre that all the fans know back to the club.

Let's get real here.It is very unlikely that ANY professional player will ever say anything derogatory about a teammate that has just left the club.If Jack had said about Coq - «Grew up playing with him in the Youth Team and have fond memories of a player they though he had very limited ability he always gave his all.Very surprised and disappointed the club never invested in a World Class defensive midfielder that we have quite obviously been lacking for a number of seasons and would no doubt have improved the defensive weakness we have shown over a number of seasons» we would have echoed his thoughts entirely.If he had said about Theo - «A player who should have been so much better than he ended up being.He had everything needed to be a prolific player for our club but I can understand the fans frustrations with his continued lack - lustre performances and total lack of a football brain.I think this is best explained by the managers preference to play a player of such limited ability as Alex Iwobi in front of Theo pretty much says it all» we again would have all nodded our agreement.Although Jack never mentioned Alexis Sanchez I would imagine something along the lines of «If the Manager had not persisted with players with such limited ability such as Francis and Theo and instead bought the world class players needed into the club then Sanchez would still most likely be here.The fans must wonder what the hell goes on at the club as they pay fortunes for the privalage of following our club but it seems the millions generated ends up purchasing a new Texas Ranch for the Owner or in a yearly renumeration of # 9million pounds to our manager».

But the worst thing about this kind of writing, is to try and justify a lack lustre performance and the loss, on that penalty.

I love my Arsenal but under Wenger I can't watch another year or maybe two of lack - lustre, weak and unimaginative performances under a manager who has no clue now what he's doing.

Now 30, Gyan is keen on one final shot in a major western league, while Conte, an admirer of the forward from his time in Italy, sees the attacker as an experienced and explosive option as he looks to return the Blues to their former lustre.

imo nelson is at risk of nketiah taking his lustre which suggests he'll need to maintain his efficiency or be overlooked.

No doubt for many, guilt at such expenditure creeps into the equation and when faced by lack lustre displays, perceived lack of ambition, underlined by the supposed reluctance of the club itself, it would seem, to make reciprocal investment it is not surprising that resentment leads to a wider discontentment.

Cockie, I too hold the manager as the person «most responsible» for our lack lustre performances for the last couple of months.

But Chinese football has lost some of its lustre: Carlos Tevez is back in Argentina after his disastrous year at Shanghai Shenhua and new rules means Chinese clubs have not splurged on foreign talent as in previous years.

Among the highlights of their lack - lustre administration is sending the country to HIPC, which they pride so much in and tout as one of their greatest achievements.

We fear, sadly, that Nick Clegg's lustre is too tarnished to be of much assistance to the party at the next election.

Inside this January issue you will find regular columnist and ComRes chairman Andrew Hawkins discussing how Nick Clegg has lost his lustre - and it's all because of his success during the general election campaign.

Francis will meet civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner whose lustre has faded because of her failure to speak up publicly for the Rohingya.

But as the lustre fades, you demote it to house wear before eventually consigning its faded glory to the back of the wardrobe.

They tend to be lustrous, ductile, malleable, and good conductors of electricity, while nonmetals are generally brittle (for solid nonmetals), lack lustre, and are insulators.

McManus uses Lustre as an example of a high - performance shared file - system as it has been used in supercomputing for years and is designed to provide high bandwidth for large data sets such as those found in genomics.

It offers two tiers of data storage including 2 terabyte solid state drive per node as fast read / write scratch storage and 100 terabyte Lustre parallel file server.

I love to make granola, but in the past my attempts at making paleo granola have been kind of lack - lustre.

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The amazing lustre and designs of stud earrings could uplift your features magically.