(1) Sure, it was holiday-time: daily matches, skiving from work, the cities aglitter with flags and foreigners.
Glinting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glint
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(2) A pair took off from the newly tilled bare earth, chasing in tandem, making mazy, quicksilver, patterns with their white tail feathers glinting against the soil, as if they were playing with sparklers.
(3) If you want to be a contender for the Premier League, some things like this happen.” There was a glint in Pochettino’s eye as he reflected on the Chelsea game, in which nine of Spurs players were booked – a Premier League record – and it was a minor miracle no one was sent off.
(4) "You look at the Rolling Stones and you see a glint in their eye.
(5) Sun dogs (phantom suns) glint on the horizon in rainbow colours.
(6) For a few seconds they kept closed ranks, then they began to separate, one individual showing the glint of a white tail feather, before they vanished once more.
(7) Would she be interested in portraying the life of Mrs David - who brought the first glint of the Mediterranean to middle-class kitchens in the dreary 1950s?
(8) If the axeman cometh, then he does so with a cheery smile and a glint in his eye, a man who once said his favourite Star Trek character was The Borg, “an alien species which is very similar to the Whips’ office … a collective consciousness dedicated to the eradication of all other species”.
(9) Moreover, he says, eyes glinting through spectacles, "It's the only thing I'm quite good at."
(10) "I don't know if he had a glint in his eye about the Olympics or not at that point," Boyle says.
(11) In 1987’s No Way Out, she glints brilliantly in a Hitchcocky confection.
(12) 2010s: He's back, aged 107, eyebrows based on Professor Dumbledore's, sex glint all model's own.
(13) I like to think of Childe Roland, the paladin whose journey to the Dark Tower forms the basis of my new book The Broken King , as on the fringes of the Arthurian court: perhaps he pricked past Arthur on the plain, had a friendly joust, and galloped off again, his helm glinting in the sunlight.
(14) As our vehicle pulls up into the compound, he greets me, a tall, spindly figure who, despite being in his early 60s, has the energy and cheeky glint of a teenager.
(15) Misanthropy and pessimism (those aspects that gave me such satisfaction 40 years ago) glint through the fabric of the novel, but they signal a call to vigilance rather than defeat.
(16) Acapulco's bay sparkled and the big hotels that line the beach glinted in the sunlight in the view from Marino Casiano's tiny flat high in the hills above the resort.
(17) Which, gently glinting scalp apart, hardly suggests the cerebral, actorly individual in front of me.
(18) That evening, the lights from a Sligo pizzeria glint off the River Garavogue.
(19) However, because they are encoded by neural frequency tuning rather than the time-of-occurrence of neural discharges, the perceived range separation of glints in images is not vulnerable to amplitude-latency shifts.
(20) The bat then sums the cross-correlation functions for multiple glints to form the entire image of the complex target.