The glamor of the deity lingers round the form of the man.
Her manners, for instance, were not such as might be expected from one who had tasted of spiritual wisdom at its secret sources; while her pretentious ignorance was enough to alarm any student not under the glamor of her audacity.
Superstition does not invent social laws; it merely throws around them the glamor of a supernatural authority.
Even his admirers must confess that it is crudely written, and that our patriotic interest inclines us to overestimate a story which throws the glamor of romance over the Revolution.
It casts a yellow glamor over the earth, a glamor not of joy, nor of pleasure, nor of happiness--but of peace.
Corydon, it became clear, had forgiven him; the phraseology of his letter was touching, and he was now invested in the glamor of penitence.
There is an intimate charm, a true glamor of love-idyll about the Adagio.
Sometimes, under the glamor of his art, we are half persuaded that mere persistence may transmute pedantry into poetry.
It did not belong to the present; it was always in the past, and memory was like unto a skilful painter who touched up the drab canvases of reality with the colors of glamor long after the picture was made!
Horn and Vancouver was a mere jog ahead, but the youthful glamor of his shore dreams was gone.
On Paul Judson, both as President of the Commercial Club and through his connection with the mining companies, fell the largest share of the reflected glamor from the guest's powerful personality.
The glamor of the situation, with his father as the recognized champion of labor, fitted smoothly into his own rebellious dreams.
The soft glamor of the May night reaffirmed its immemorial sway over the sleeping hulk of the mountain.
It is hard for those who remember Jackson, or Charleston, or Richmond, in the sleepy glamor of their later years, to think of these as uncouth pioneer clearings: but such was their beginning.
His mind was in a glorified glamor of dynamic thinking.
Sympathy for the well-meaning but misguided singer reached its height about twenty years ago, when new discoveries about Villon threw a glamor over the poet of checkered life.
But multiple friendships did not flourish among poets of the last century,--at least they were overhung by no glamor of romance that lured the poet to immortalize them in verse.
Romance and glamor and the tragedies of dead men clung to their ribs.
From this drab little place, shut out from all the world for half the year, young men and women went down to southern universities, to big cities, to the glamor and lure of "outside.
Hints of alienglamor Even reach the town; Urban muses stammer Hints of alien glamor, But the city's clamor Beats the voices down; Hints of alien glamor Even reach the town.
Such a glamor and a grace Ever glimmered on thy face, Ever such a witchery Lit the laughing eyes of thee, Could a fool like me withstand Folly's feast and beckoning hand?
There is much glamor of sophistry, which may be taken for profound reason and argument, in the work to which I am calling your attention.
These two picaresque novelettes have the magical glamor of fairy tales set in Maxfield Parrish landscapes.
In "The Lost Phoebe," which I reprinted as one of the best short stories of 1917, a new legend was added to American letters which had much of the glamor of leisureliness of Hawthorne.
No more happy evenings, such as the night before had been, when the glamor and romance of courtship days had come back, and they had found a new beauty of love and the glory of life, in the easier circumstances and rosy hopes ahead.
There was a glow and glamor about Quebec which the sober English capitals farther south did not have.
It might be the glow andglamor of decay, but people did not know it then, although they did know that the Frenchman, with his love of the forest and skill in handling the Indians, was a formidable foe.
There was behind it, in explanation, shadowed out, the glamor of an empire that Senor Barras would set up with the millions in his country of revolutions, and the enthusiasms of a foolish mother.
He made believe to this girl a future that he never intended, and she is under the glamor of these fancies.
Had this red-blooded young blade, giving himself up wholly to the glamor of the moment, had he ever taken the cold, dry, heartless doctrine of Horace as a guide to life?
The ten-year-old Neale when suddenly the glamor had faded from his lead soldiers, had never wasted time in pretending that it was there.
The combination of Irvingesque romantic glamor and Dickensian bitter-sweet humor, applied to picturesquely novel material, with the addition of a trick ending, was fantastically popular.
Much could be urged against Harte's stories: the glamor they throw over the life they depict is largely fictitious; their pathetic endings are obviously stylized; their technique is overwhelmingly derivative.
The vividness of our personal memories, which are the very essence of reality to us, throws a glamor of conviction over tradition and past inductions.
The glamor of your name and the fatal romance that clings to your race have proved too much for the most charming and most tender-hearted of her sex.
A pair of old Dresden candlesticks stood on the table, and under pink shades the candles cast a glamor of subdued light upon damask and silver and china.
Her tranquil eyes shall penetrate afar Through centuries, and her maternal arm Enfold the generations yet unborn; Nor she, by passing glamornor alarm, Will from the steadfast way of life be drawn.
Clearly here was an example of a girl attracted by the glamor of the life and flattery of its satellites.
There was no glamor left in the relations of young men and young women, no sentiment except such as might exist among young men themselves.
It is especially unsafe to attempt a final judgment upon the works of a poet while the glamor of them is still upon us.
But its glamor holds possession of my mind even after the lapse of half a century of years, and the greatest joy I have known in life has come from my efforts to depict it in romances that are only a veiled record of facts.
And there is no glamorabout birth throes, not even about the birth throes of a new world.
And although some of the glamor of his strangeness wore away, she liked him all the better for being a human god and for having human weaknesses that caused his diviner side to seem all the more real.
This was her first ball, anticipation had cast a glamor over everything that was or was to be, and excitement had set all her nerves a tingle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glamor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: flair; glitter; magic; prestige; romance
