Quotes about glossy (16 Quotes)



    Over the table, on which an unpacked line of fabric samples was all spread out -- Samsa was a traveling salesman -- hung the picture which he had recently cut out of a glossy magazine and lodged in a pretty gilt frame. It showed a lady done up in a fur hat and a fur boa, sitting upright and raising up against the viewer a heavy fur muff in which her whole forearm had disappeared.



    Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.


    I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the ''human figure divine'' but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

    Forget the smoke and mirrors. From a glossy sales presentation, you can believe that anything is possible. The whole purpose of the evaluation was to let our people loose under the covers and see how difficult it would be to implement the portal.

    We're trying to give students an alternative community to plug in to, ... We're giving them alternative information. They just get snowballed this time of year with glossy literature.

    Prior to Marilyn Monroe, a star's life was hidden from the public. But now, instead of a glossy ideal, we see celebrity's ugly messes, including their drug and alcohol abuse, which, for many who admire these people, translates into a very dangerous message.

    But all the Administration released was a glossy brochure and a plan for a single agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, and even that was missing its most important element, the actual operational plans for responding to a pandemic epidemic,





    After all the buildup and the long wait, the American people had a right to expect a comprehensive plan. But all the administration released was a glossy brochure and a plan for a single agency, the Department of Health and Human Services.




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