Every day I mourned for my mirrors with their gleam of Miracle Polish.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

He stared up at his daughter with that foul gleam.

NEWYORKER: Deniers

And her body was not the only one glowing before my eyes: now I saw girls everywhere, stretched out in the strangest poses, clinging to the radiators, doors, and fenders of the speeding cars, their golden or dark strands of hair contrasting with the pink or dark gleam of their naked skin.

NEWYORKER: The Daughters of the Moon

Chilli, prepared to a recipe finalised in the kitchen here a century back, seasoned with the pequins and japones that gleam fiercely in the bushes behind the ranch-house, like rubies in the dust.

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The dullest instructional prose, with the right light thrown on it, can acquire the gleam of suggestiveness or insight.

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Decked out in a blue suit and a red, polka-dotted tie with a matching handkerchief in his breast pocket, he stands with guests for pictures alongside three silver Super Bowl trophies, which gleam and wink in the lights.

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That's when you notice the gleam of black ice under the thin dusting of snow, mocking the idea of changing direction with anything like the control of a car or a pair of skis.

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