starriness
- a word derived from starry.
Example Sentences
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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
But Ms. Henson, who’s an executive producer, left her flamboyant starriness on the “Empire” set.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2018
It is partly this lack of look-at-me starriness that has helped him retain a relative kind of normality in the eyes of the public, and there is a loose, “hey-I’m-just-a-guy” attitude to him in person.
From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2016
At last they found the stone, shining like a pale moon amid the twinkling starriness of the frost.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter
