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Shining lustrously in the action is Betty Hutton as a trapeze artist, who finds herself in competition with Cornel Wilde in his spectacular role as a performer of the same type.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

The results are, in many places, as ethereally and lustrously beautiful as the best Bon Iver material but more removed.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2016

Behind the two seated in the middle, a fifth man, lustrously mustachioed, spreads his arms wide to clap a paternal hand on the shoulders of the figures standing at their sides.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2016

In the six years since their debut, the Oxford band, led by the diminutive and lustrously bearded Yannis Philliakis have carved themselves out a niche as the thinking music fan's favourite band.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2013

Softly he sped to the tiny cot and knelt beside it, his thin shoulders hunched over, his long black hair shining lustrously in the lamp-glow, his breath coming in quick, sobbing happiness.

From The Honor of the Big Snows by Curwood, James Oliver