Along one of the main roads, a sparkling mega-mall gleams in the sunlight.

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High on a hill overlooking albuquerque the light- brown dust swirls, and a steel skeleton gleams under the sun.

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The omnipresent knotty wood paneling gleams with a golden patina, and the lobby is lit with twig-shaped sconces and three enormous antler chandeliers.

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This one gleams with fresh white paint and gold leaf.

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Another monumental work, and among my favorites, is Swiss artist Alex Hanimann's "Vanessa" (2012), a 5-meter-high chrome statue of a tomboyish teenage girl that gleams in the sun and reflects the surrounding buildings.

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Still, there are a few gleams of light.

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There are, however, a few gleams of light.

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Wanting only to be kind, she began hunting for the ring in all seriousness, peering at the riverbed, fishing for gleams in the water, her hands aching from the cold as if the flesh were being dragged off her bones.

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The series gleams with HBO handsomeness.

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The carriage was piled with luggage and tied bundles, and as she stood some silver fell to the ground, knives and forks and a silver candelabra, catching in the clatter the few gleams of light from the torch that Roscoe held.

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