Example Sentences

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The somber tone of much of the album contrasts with what sounds like a pretty joyful — and glitteringly Manhattan — experience making it.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2016

These include Gangloff’s moody portraits, Degen’s glitteringly surreal landscapes and the diagrammatic paintings by Masnyj, which function as strange inventories of objects and things.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2016

Aided by Robert Greene’s abrupt editing, the movie’s images suggest sharp-edged, glitteringly detached shards of perception.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2015

Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives is a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad film set among American criminal expatriates in Bangkok.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2013

Perry, his eyes glitteringly immense in a face now almost phosphorescently pale, studied the ceiling; and presently, after placing a picture postcard on the patient’s bedside table, the rebuffed visitor departed.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote