The stars were shining in the sky.

In the normal course of events, Patel s illustrious life might have been left to the history books.

You've seen brilliant people devise computer viruses that bring down whole systems.

Hirschman s interests shifted away from economic development over the course of his illustrious career.

There was a time when Stone Age men and women used to sit and look up at the sky and say, What are those twinkling lights?

Yet, Italian machismo, with its polished shoes and shiny suits, is different from the more rough hewn Russian version.

Alongside many luminaries around the world, former US President Jimmy Carter has condemned Obama s barbaric drone policy.

RG When we lowered the glossy parenting magazine that we were looking at, with these beautiful images, and looked at the scene in our actual living room, it looked a little bit more like this.

Infantile or not, there is a common human craving for taking vicarious pleasure in the lives of kings, queens, and other shining stars.

You go to the stereo store, you see two sets of speakers these big, boxy, monoliths, and these little, sleek speakers, and you play them, and you go, you know, I do hear a difference the big ones sound a little better.

Some of our illustrious press carried a doctored translation in Arabic of what the US State Department spokesman said when asked about the deteriorating security situation in Bahrain, writes Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al Yousif.

This mini documentary begins with the Modernism era of the early 20th century, bringing out icons like the beloved former first lady Eva Perón, a big symbol in the country's history, and the actress and glamour model Isabel Coca Sarli, considered the quintessential sex symbol of Argentina.

Yet, Italian machismo, with its polished shoes and shiny suits, is different from the more rough hewn Russian version. And no amount of European male panache can mask Putin s inner brute.

The familiar figure with the glinting, rimless glasses and the rigid hair forced back, as if it were spun glass, greeted me at the door of his seemingly tennis court size office.

Well, even in basalt surfaces in lava tube caves, which are a by product of volcanic activity, we find these walls totally covered, in many cases, by these beautiful, glistening silver walls, or shiny pink or shiny red or shiny gold.

To be sure, many people have lamented the loss of brilliant minds to the financial sector over the past few decades. But perhaps we should consider it a stroke of luck that these geniuses created their mess somewhere else.

I was sitting in a slum outside Gurgaon just next to Delhi, one of the flashiest, brightest new cities popping up in India right now, and I was talking to workers who worked in garment sweatshops down the road, and I asked them what message they would like me to take to the brands.