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Here too, the work is largely from an in-house collection — Columbia University’s — and one some distance from Met-style starriness.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2022

Mark Strong is among those actors – Firth, Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch – who pop up for cameos as the boys’ superiors; bit parts whose starriness some have found distracting.

From The Guardian • Jan. 3, 2020

If there is a flaw it is that an absence of starriness coincides with an absence of goals elsewhere.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2018

But Ms. Henson, who’s an executive producer, left her flamboyant starriness on the “Empire” set.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2018

She always seemed to him a little bit unearthly in the starriness of her beauty.

From The City of Fire by Hill, Grace Livingston