(n.) A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
(n.) Witchcraft; magic; a spell.
(n.) A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
(n.) Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pharo also claimed that Wade had turned down the scoop about MPs’ expense claims because she had spent so much on a book by former glamour model Katie Price.
(2) I want to pick them by the armful and fill the house with their extravagance and glamour.
(3) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(4) And when nothing seems off-limits online – not to mention the intimate moments of any celebrity under the sun, or the private photos Jennifer Lawrence makes for her lover’s eyes only – does the proper fleshy privacy of sex with a partner lose its glamour?
(5) Six consecutive days of glamour will provide young designers with the perfect opportunity to make an impact, and at the opening event of LFW on Friday morning Natalie Massanet, the chairman of the British Fashion Council, told members of the industry that the "global spotlight" was now on London.
(6) Smash Hits folded in 2006, long after Patterson had departed to contribute to titles including Q , the Word , the Guardian , Glamour , Interview , the Face , and the NME prior to it becoming a free paper.
(7) Most of the glamour and interest remained focused on the men’s tournament.
(8) US magazine Glamour declared a “body image revolution” in 2009.
(9) Boris Johnson sat at his table at the summer party Some glamour was provided by the presence of Peter Stringfellow, 73, the founder of the nightclub that bears his name, and his 31-year-old wife, Bella.
(10) If you don’t fancy the cost of what is undoubtedly a splurge stay, you can sample the glamour at its cafe-restaurant, itself a popular meeting place.
(11) Whether it's Rihanna and Shakira in a music video or soap stars and glamour models on the covers of lads' mags, the message that pop culture sends to youngsters is that lesbian relationships are all about sex.
(12) Glamour magazine has lost its position as the most popular women's UK monthly lifestyle title in print after more than a decade, overtaken by Good Housekeeping.
(13) She was the embodiment of postwar European glamour and was packaged as such, on screen and off.
(14) Asos also publishes a glossy magazine with circulation of 470,000 – more than Glamour , Grazia or even the giveaway Stylist .
(15) For Cohn, a teddy boy at heart, neither came close to the glamour and speed fix of the rapidly receding “golden age” he wrote about with such dash: Elvis’s “great ducktail plume and lopsided grin”, Phil Spector’s “beautiful noise”, and James Brown, “the outlaw, the Stagger Lee of his time”.
(16) "This is a world-first initiative designed to remove the last vestige of glamour from tobacco products," she told parliament.
(17) But with seven out of 10 titles losing sales – Easy Living, GQ, House & Garden, World of Interiors, Glamour, Vogue and Condé Nast Traveller – Condé Nast's results risk looking more bridesmaid than bride.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho: Manchester United ‘the perfect club’ for Paul Pogba – video Pogba, in fairness, is more than just a glamour signing who shows that United, and the Premier League, are wrestling some pulling power back from European rivals, notably Spain’s swoonsome hunks.
(19) New technologies have been developed for liver surgery, and, like all new technologies, they have a glamour which makes them seem desirable.
(20) And wherever the Cosmos went, glamour would be close behind; from weekly parties at Studio 54 to dubious behaviour on aeroplanes, the team became synonymous with excess.
Jinx
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It took us 35 hours to get to London because of delays, so I think we’re jinxed,” said Jillian Masselos, who is pregnant.
(2) "Very serious allegations have been made and this is no run-of-the-mill, high jinx affair," he said this afternoon.
(3) 4.21am BST Red Sox 8 - Cardinals 1, top of 9th May Low (@TeamMassMayhem) @NotCoachTito @LengelDavid YOU JINXED IT!
(4) "Do I switch the lights on and risk jinxing the Reds?
(5) I'm not saying this was a jinx or anything, I'm just saying.
(6) Imagine the high-jinx when a man who likes meatballs has to eat, um, cod.
(7) Over the course of a jinxed shoot and a mixed critical reception he discovered that being King of the World was not all it was cracked up to be.
(8) Ah now, it'd be unfair for me to try to jinx one team over the other.
(9) I’m sitting in a windowless room with two gigantic pictures of [The Jinx’s villain] Robert Durst on the wall,” he explains on the phone from New York.
(10) Although given that my only other bet was on England beating Algeria 5-1, I think I've probably jinxed them."
(11) She chose her university, in part, because of its strong reputation for sport and Rosenfeld names the tennis star Martina Navratilova as an inspiration, although an injury jinxed her own hopes of competing at a top level.
(12) But the crowd are prepared to wait... 10.09pm BST I don't normally publish emails like this, but we've had a lot of them in the past week I'm banned by my highly superstitious family from watching live coverage of the Olympics because I jinx Team GB," says Claire Robins.
(13) "After such a victorious and uplifting welcome of Lima love, the contaminated jinx had its way via a simple restaurant meal of penne pasta and tomato," he wrote.
(14) But the resurgence would never be complete, the jinx not entirely broken, until they had defeated their rivals.
(15) When the San Francisco 49ers seemed to respond to the power outage by starting to play like they could actually steal the game away from the Baltimore Ravens, we wanted to give a certain amount of credit to the lights, call it momentum or a jinx or whatever.
(16) Fielding says the new book is about "a whole new idea for a phase of her life that I can't jinx by describing it".
(17) 1.53am GMT Kansas City here we come Of course in the other game last night, Sporting KC finally overcame their Houston Dynamo jinx to not just get to the MLS Cup final but to ensure that they'll be hosting it (having been to a great All Star Week there, I can tell you they'll do a great job too).
(18) They've been rather spoiled this week after lifting that home elimination game jinx.
(19) Lucy Beaumont: 'I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse' Lucy Beaumont I'm jinxed with accommodation in Edinburgh.
(20) Updated at 7.28pm GMT 7.23pm GMT 90 min +5: “Okay, with three minutes to go I think I’m just about ready to put my Niall Mullen voodoo doll away after his fate enticing attempt to jinx things at half time,” writes Phil Sawyer.