Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A faint and tremulous gleaming or shining.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A gleam or glimmering.
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- verb Present participle of
shimmer . - noun A
gleam orglimmer .
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Examples
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Gay can slip into purple excesses of language now and then - if I could, I would wave one of those "Men in Black" wands and erase the phrase "shimmering labia" from my brain - but he can also score a direct hit when he wants to.
NYT > Home Page By JEFF GORDINIER 2011
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The Social Network jumps from depositions in shimmering corporate conference rooms to flashback clashes between angry, entitled elites.
Ari Melber: The Social Network: Because People Like Being Alone Together Ari Melber 2010
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In this program Pavlova was robed in shimmering white and silver, with diademed head and ankles tied with rosy ribbons … The fairy scene vanishes and a radiant figure — (Pavlova) — [re -] enters the stage walking with the delicate precision and grace of some wild bird.
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She was cloaked in shimmering blue robes that looked like stars painted against midnight sky.
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In this program Pavlova was robed in shimmering white and silver, with diademed head and ankles tied with rosy ribbons … The fairy scene vanishes and a radiant figure — (Pavlova) — [re -] enters the stage walking with the delicate precision and grace of some wild bird.
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The Social Network jumps from depositions in shimmering corporate conference rooms to flashback clashes between angry, entitled elites.
Ari Melber: The Social Network: Because People Like Being Alone Together Ari Melber 2010
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The Social Network jumps from depositions in shimmering corporate conference rooms to flashback clashes between angry, entitled elites.
Ari Melber: The Social Network: Because People Like Being Alone Together Ari Melber 2010
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Brunette celebrities were guided to a fitting room decorated in shimmering silver; blonde clients were ushered into a dressing room of gleaming gold.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICON OF STYLE SERIES: Lilly Daché (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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The Social Network jumps from depositions in shimmering corporate conference rooms to flashback clashes between angry, entitled elites.
Ari Melber: The Social Network: Because People Like Being Alone Together Ari Melber 2010
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Brunette celebrities were guided to a fitting room decorated in shimmering silver; blonde clients were ushered into a dressing room of gleaming gold.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICON OF STYLE SERIES: Lilly Daché (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
bilby commented on the word shimmering
"Aramaic Lord's Prayer
O Silent Sound,
whose shimmering music pulsates
at the heart of each and all,
Clear a space in us where thy melody
may be perceived in its purity.
Let the rhythm of thy counsel reverberate through our lives,
so that we move to the beat of justice, love, and peace.
Then, our whole being at one with thy song,
grant that the earth may be filled
with the beauty of thy voice.
Endow us with the wisdom to produce and share
what each being needs to grow and flourish,
And give us courage to embrace our shadow with emptiness,
as we embrace others in their darkness.
But let us not be captive to uncertainty,
nor cling to fruitless pursuits.
For from thee springs forth
the rhythm, the melody, and the harmony,
which restores all to balance, again and again.
Ameyn."
- rendered by Mark Hathaway based on the work of Neil Douglas-Klotz in 'Prayers of the Cosmos', 1990.
December 24, 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word shimmering
"One morning, after several weeks of showers and storms, I heard in my chimney—instead of the formless, elastic, sombre wind which stirred in me a longing to go to the sea—the cooing of the pigeons, nesting in the wall outside; shimmering and unexpected like a first hyacinth gently tearing open its nutritious heart to release its flower of sound, mauve and satin-soft, letting into my still dark and shuttered bedroom as through an opened window the warmth, the brightness, the fatigue of a first fine day."
--The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, pp 186-187 of the Modern Library paperback edition
August 4, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word shimmering
"Weary, resigned, occupied for several hours still with its immemorial task, the grey day stitched its shimmering needlework of light and shade, and it saddened me to think that I was to be left alone with a thing that knew me no more than would a seamstress who, installed by the window so as to see better while she finishes her work, pays no attention to the person present with her in the room."
--The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 479 of the Modern Library paperback edition
September 2, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word shimmering
"My joy at having rediscovered it was enhanced by the tone, so friendly and familiar, which it adopted in addressing me, so persuasive, so simple, and yet without subduing the shimmering beauty with which it glowed."
--The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright, p 332 of the Modern Library paperback edition
January 20, 2010
Louises commented on the word shimmering
The yellow-toothed wolf from the Little Red Riding Hood book I had when I was a child comes to me - purple jacket and all - shimmering out of the wall or the fire or the carpet or just thin air, comes to me and wraps his bigger weightless body around mine and tries to get in. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 27, 2012