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  • I want to tell you that up front, because Woolf, who died 70 years ago this year, is so often portrayed as the Dark Lady of English letters, all glowery and sad, looking balefully on from a crepuscular corner of literary history with a stone lodged in her pocket.

    Virginia Woolf, my mother and me 2011

  • I want to tell you that up front, because Woolf, who died 70 years ago this year, is so often portrayed as the Dark Lady of English letters, all glowery and sad, looking balefully on from a crepuscular corner of literary history with a stone lodged in her pocket.

    Virginia Woolf, my mother and me 2011

  • All the other letters, mostly with horrid, tradesmanny-looking envelopes, which had been making her quite glowery, she pushed aside.

    Lady Betty Across the Water Orson Lowell 1889

  • I was thinking about my stabbiness and how my ankle hurt from my sitting on my foot for an hour straight and whether veterinarians would have ethical issues with removing feline vocal chords when I realized that I was making a very glowery, grumpy face, and so I started to think of other grumpy faces, and I immediately remembered Sam the Eagle, one of the rarer muppets, and how I had this big crush on him when I was a little kid.

    My First Crush Was Probably On Sam The Eagle 2009

  • I was thinking about my stabbiness and how my ankle hurt from my sitting on my foot for an hour straight and whether veterinarians would have ethical issues with removing feline vocal chords when I realized that I was making a very glowery, grumpy face, and so I started to think of other grumpy faces, and I immediately remembered Sam the Eagle, one of the rarer muppets, and how I had this big crush on him when I was a little kid.

    Schmutzie.com 2009

  • If you have a thing for "tall and glowery '' Bruce Wayne is your man.

    Cinematical 2010

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