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Example sentences for: luster

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Cat's-eye is a semi-precious, yellowish-brown stone, a variety of chalcedonic quartz or chrysoberyl, which, cut in a certain way, reflects light and has a luster like the contracted pupil of a cat's eye.
Thus have they given us Hitler as "psychopathic god" and "unprincipled opportunist," but never as "statesman"--a title that, even in the age of the Kissingers and the Pinochets, has lost little of its luster.
Or is he painting a dark background to lend the illusion of luster to his pale moral agenda?
From my vantage point, this is journalism's golden age--we just have a hard time detecting its luster because golden ages always shine more brightly from a distance.
Once the luster fades from the current Labor government, the column said, the Conservatives "had better be standing in the centre ground.