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"luster" Definitions
  1. the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss: the luster of satin.
  2. a substance, as a coating or polish, used to impart sheen or gloss.
  3. radiant or luminous brightness; brilliance; radiance.
  4. radiance of beauty, excellence, merit, distinction, or glory: achievements that add luster to one's name.
  5. a shining object, especially one used for decoration, as a cut-glass pendant or ornament.
  6. a chandelier, candleholder, etc., ornamented with cut-glass pendants.
  7. any natural or synthetic fabric with a lustrous finish.
  8. Also called metallic luster
  9. an iridescent metallic film produced on the surface of a ceramic glaze.
  10. Mineralogy
  11. the nature of a mineral surface with respect to its reflective qualities: greasy luster.
  12. to finish (fur, cloth, pottery, etc.) with a luster or gloss.
  13. to be or become lustrous.

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702 Sentences With "luster"

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But for Wasserman, the word "passion" has lost its luster.
The luster of these bets still shined brightly on Thursday.
The contemporary Night of 100 Stars cannot claim such luster.
His hair has lost the silken luster of his heyday.
His comments come as gold tries to recapture its luster.
For some historical figures, embellishments add luster to their reputations.
Jefferson Academy's luster was unnatural in the most pristine sense.
The team added a certain luster to the Valeant brand.
"We were surprised that grooming was so prevalent," Luster said.
"The luster on Trump buildings has faded," Ms. Packes said.
"If it's not tended, it loses its luster," she said.
But we shouldn't necessarily bank on ISIS losing its luster.
Gold showed some luster after dipping Tuesday on the U.S. data.
Once considered pure spectacle, 3D has lost its luster with audiences.
The luxury home market may be losing some of its luster.
The luster has faded somewhat in the wake of Brexit however.
For Gina Luster, 2000, seeing the stacks of bottles angers her.
Things grew worse when Luster collapsed at her job that month.
"Some of the luster has come off of firsts," said Rev.
Our reputation and luster around the globe would be instantly restored.
"golden straightjacket" of Europe's fiscal rules lost its luster and EU
Yet with time, the yearly habit lost some of its luster.
But already the luster of the moment had begun to wane.
We can change, even after the luster of youth is gone.
Returning the ceiling to its former luster was a painstaking process.
Her marriage to Mr. Bettencourt added political luster to the family.
"It was very special," Luster told Amy Saunders in an email.
There they sat for decades, their decorative metals slowly losing their luster.
South Korean and Japanese component suppliers also reflected some of Apple's luster.
To view a graphic on U.S. industrial stocks lose luster, click: reut.
He hopes that elephant ivory and rhino horn will lose their luster.
With antitrust scrutiny on the rise, that approach might lose some luster.
It had a luster, but it also had a dark, dirty grittiness.
Luke Cage, which premiered on Netflix over the weekend, highlights Harlem's luster.
How much luster the American brand has lost is hard to quantify.
In other words, the Ivies added to their overall luster by subtraction.
The result is a dense, strong porcelain with an unusual shiny luster.
Adding some luster to the mergers-and-acquisition franchise therefore makes sense.
Yet only a few years later, water beds had lost their luster.
Many once-great towns and neighborhoods in America have lost their luster.
But after the financial crisis, the names we knew lost their luster.
Why care about shock-and-awe art when it's lost its toxic luster?
The Ziegfeld had already lost its luster by the time I worked there.
Then there's the luster that comes with the commander-in-chief visiting town.
Nevertheless, polling indicates that the Manchin brand is beginning to lose its luster.
Over the years Lord & Taylor has lost much of its well-earned luster.
This explains why initially gratifying activities and relationships can sometimes lose their luster.
By then, Tokiwadaira and Japan's other danchi had lost much of their luster.
The competition would lose its luster, and with it would go the fans.
" In Britain, The Sunday Express said, "Her glory sheds luster on all womanhood.
She was not interested in Hollywood; New York was where the luster was.
Two key components of a pearl are the luster, or shine, and shape.
Unlike cold marble, ivory is a once living material with a soft, creamy luster.
In fact, Mr. Sapan is doing his bit to add to the town's luster.
Ted Cruz close in the state's 2018 Senate race -- needs to restore his luster.
He wanted to bring back the luster and the glory of the White House.
Over the last two years, these shows have started to lose their ratings luster.
Again, though, after you make it through your teenage years, they lose some luster.
On Tennis MADRID — The golden age of men's tennis has lost some luster lately.
Still, after a rocky few years, the global luxury market has regained its luster.
And Mar-a-Lago has gained some extra luster since Mr. Trump became president.
Restaurants have the power to attract attention and add luster to a property, too.
I feel it would diminish the luster of the Pixel 2 XL's glorious screen.
And if he lost in Iowa, then his luster would fade and he'd quickly diminish.
Still, he managed to restore some luster as CEO of CIT and retired in 2015.
"People are forgetting the emotional and mental problems that we're going through now," said Luster.
Rami Malek didn't let a little fall take any of the luster off his Oscar.
And there are three textures, matte, luster and iridescent, as opposed to all shiny ones.
This video is out of focus but that only adds to the commercial's belligerent luster.
After all in Trumpland bright and shiny objects have a way of losing their luster.
At 66, the great Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto may have lost a little vocal luster.
In fact, each bulb can be expected to last 15 years without losing its luster.
The fall of Communism lent a retrospective luster to Reaganism within the foreign policy establishment.
Like many old-school social clubs, Harmonie has lost some luster in the last decade.
He sees nothing amiss in hitching his profile to that of a high-luster brand.
But when the company moved into the mass market, it lost much of its luster.
Over all, that growth in China is helping the global luxury market regain its luster.
"He gives a luster to the whole championship," said Gianpiero Gasperini, the manager of Atalanta.
In 2016, the organization launched an online campaign to raise money to restore their luster.
The finish has a slight luster that truly shines under the lights at Madison Square Garden!
Yet, in a matter of months, Home Depot has managed to lose some of its luster.
"Sateen sheets have a subtle luster, and the silkiness feels like an air kiss," says Fulop.
I love Georgia Louise's Stemcell Renewal Elixir because it adds even more luster to the skin.
The conversation turned to communication, where the space contained a few players with lack-luster products.
After getting buried in accumulation a few times, the white stuff begins to lose its luster.
A bronze watch has a natural luster over time that is a wonderful expression of ownership.
After a 7 percent slide since its April high, it's lost a bit of its luster.
Still, even the most dramatic displays of technological achievement can lose their luster with repeated viewing.
I had gotten a bit lost in trying to recover the luster of my glory days.
The decline, experts say, partly reflects a growing belief that America's star is losing its luster.
As in much of the world, economic liberalism is losing some of its luster in Australia.
Powerful figures using emotional torture as a warped demonstration of care has lost its luster, too.
Political parties that had once seemed like fresh alternatives a year ago have lost their luster.
That has dented the dollar's luster a bit as the supply of the U.S. currency expands.
These can eat into the pearl's nacre, the distinctive outer layer, and dull its luster irreparably.
Ms. Luster said the inmates changed dramatically after putting on their costumes, completely inhabiting their characters.
The job in James' case, though, calls on him to restore some luster to the franchise.
And now this Florida Keys clan, its Kennedyesque luster irrevocably tarnished, is atoning for its sins.
The fact that they'd tolerate and mourn for a partner who suppressed their luster was upsetting.
YouTube is losing a bit of its luster against these growing services, particularly Facebook and Snapchat.
They have been hardened, like coal under pressure, to the point where they present a diamond's luster.
"It doesn't have nearly the luster at 4 PM as it does at 4 AM," he notes.
Local officials, looking for tax revenue, would like for it to regain some of its former luster.
While the series quickly garnered a devoted audience, its lack-luster ratings eventually led to the cancellation.
" Flint Mother, Gina Luster, says Hanna-Attisha is more than just a hero in their city. "Dr.
Domo, Dropbox and a few other startups, however, lost some luster in Fidelity's eyes (Wall Street Journal).
Luster, a self-admitted ice chewer, started noticing the taste of the water was different that summer.
With the rashes and hair loss persisting, Luster started using bottled water for more than just drinking.
How does a celebrated, tight-knit partnership keep the luster of its brand as it changes personnel?
Poland, on the other hand, could be losing some of its luster, say fund managers and analysts.
Her great artistry seemed intact, and if any vocal luster was missing, your memory gratefully supplied it.
Eventually, group portraiture lost its luster for Mr. Slavin, who went into film directing and commercial photography.
Can the latest remake undo my childhood trauma and restore the luster of the Judy Garland version?
Hollywood imports are losing their luster as local studios become more skilled at making blockbuster-style movies.
Try polishing your countertop with a plastic laminate cleaner, which will give you a soft, low luster.
Coal is beginning to lose its luster in many countries, but not in the Asia-Pacific region.
His signing will add some luster to this season's opener when Pittsburgh visits Cleveland on Sept. 10.
An unknown quantity at Vanity Fair could fuel a perception that the company is losing its luster.
China remains the biggest market by far for the visa, but it has been losing its luster.
What happens when Johnson's luster wears away thanks to the partisan bickering inherent in a political career?
Gold lost its safe-haven luster as investor confidence strengthened, posting its worst monthly loss since mid-2013.
After the defection and the death of Kamel, the relationship between Raghad and her father lost its "luster".
There are some early signs that O'Rourke might have lost some of his luster as a presidential candidate.
Eventually the gems got crusty and lost their luster, so I began hunting for the next best case.
Though his fur loses its luster and his whiskers wear away, the rabbit becomes real to the boy.
Even though the iPhone is losing its luster with each passing year, an iPhone is still an iPhone.
Time spent on the platform has lost its luster as a key metric for Facebook, says Mark Zuckerberg.
However, Cooper predicts gold will regain its luster once investors realize the Fed isn't moving on interest rates.
My hunch is that BMW, the corporation, is trying to scrape up every "BMW luster" it can get.
But as the company moved into the mass market in subsequent decades, it lost much of its luster.
But like all great things, even the magnificent, overstuffed power meals can lose their luster over time, apparently.
But then EA released the official Fame expansion pack, so it kinda lost its luster a little bit.
When the internet lost its luster, I started putting the misery-inducing parts in a boxEventually, something changed.
By skipping the conching stage, the finished product has a matte luster and "slightly grainy and unrefined" mouthfeel.
Black Luster Soldier's working theory is that the hacker used a vulnerability in MySQL to obtain the data.
Despite garnering a lot of buzz in 2014 and 2015, Yik Yak's original app eventually lost its luster.
Fivestar said that Luster Productions planned to promote its performers' solo content while the shutdown was in place.
The sky puts on a show early this week (though the moon may steal some of its luster).
Tiny dipping bowls glazed in indigo and adorned with handpainted 22-karat gold luster sell for around €15.
Ms. Monastyrska sang with a plush, strong soprano, which lost a bit of its luster in quiet moments.
But so long as the academy maintained an image of integrity and neutrality, the award maintained its luster.
Palms, cactus and ficus trees add luster to original period features found in the light-filled dining room.
But cryptocurrencies have lost their luster and the company with the hottest stock is now feeling the pinch.
The early luster that Trump showed in New Hampshire, Super Tuesday and the Southeast primaries had worn thin.
John LaForge, the firm's head of real asset strategy, sees gold regaining its luster and delivering profits for investors.
They bring strong track records, but some haste would be in order to restore the $11.4 billion company's luster.
But the movie is more profound than that, one whose buoyant musical numbers add luster to its deeper core.
Woods had lost his luster and and millenials were seeking pastimes that were less time-intensive and more accessible.
The stuff occurs naturally in the body and decreases as we age, dragging that youthful luster down with it.
But her latest film, Moonlight — out in limited release October 21 — couldn't be further from the luster of Bond.
Dominique Luster was appointed to the newly created position of Teenie Harris archivist at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Prism was a decent effort that didn't quite have the same luster, but Witness feels more like a spiral.
The event lost much of its luster when both Kentucky Derby winner Country House and Maximum Security withdrew beforehand.
It's a feeling that has yet to lose its luster, thankfully, because I find myself dying quite a lot.
And some fairly high-profile campaigns over the last few years have helped remove some of the model's luster.
Britain has been diminished as a place for banking and business, and so the pound has lost some luster.
Suffice it to say, that this republican Governor and his views do not add luster to the GOP label.
Being part of the PGA Tour adds luster to a golf resort, making it more appealing to amateur golfers.
And if not, is it just another cash-burning Silicon Valley darling on the verge of losing its luster?
In the year that Trump has been President, not everyone has viewed his private oceanfront club with new luster.
Hollywood imports are losing their luster in China as local studios become more skilled at making blockbuster-style movies.
The right to vote is the crown jewel of American liberties, and we will not see its luster diminished.
They can rot and crumble away, or they can stay strong and pick up a rich luster over time.
That luster — achieved through the application of cowhide extract and, at times, egg whites — is prized by Dong women.
Returning the luster to a damaged brand is no easy task, and previous attempts by G.M. have fallen short.
Later in those Games, the Australian swimmer Murray Rose also won three golds, but Cuthbert's luster would be undimmed.
The Japanese yen weakened 0.46% versus the greenback at 108.50 per dollar as its global safe-haven luster faded.
The Japanese yen weakened 0.40% versus the greenback at 108.43 per dollar as its global safe-haven luster faded.
Independent of C.K.'s downfall, Louie was the kind of show that loses its luster as time goes on.
But wood-burning fireplaces and stoves are losing their luster as science has caught up to their toxic consequences.
But its once strong brand image has lost much of its luster in the face of competition from Apple Inc.
For the lips, Lee went with Thrive Lip Filler Lip Liner in Jesse topped with Surratt Lip Luster in Ensoleille.
I don't know if it just never really loses it's luster because it's such a huge honor to be nominated.
Idol also took a shot back at some of the discussion suggesting that the Kors' brand is losing its luster.
John Malkovich is Leslie Goodwin, a revered 68-year-old director, unapologetic luster after teenage girls, and rumored child molester.
Fleming told police that the last time she and the boy's stepfather Lee Luster saw her son was on Aug.
The Spectre 15 starts to lose its luster for me once I got to extensively using the keyboard and touchpad.
It's the mirror image of Sex and the City, sure, showing what happens once happily ever after loses its luster.
In fact, NARS is dropping a four-piece collection of liquid blushes that also includes Torrid, Luster, and Dolce Vita.
It never loses its luster and its mystery, but it's no longer miraculous in terms of us not understanding it.
NO, I DONT THINK ITS LOSING ITS LUSTER, I THINK WE'RE GOING THROUGH A MARKET CORRECTION IN THE UNITED STATES.
When people remember True Blood, they recall a supernatural world that lacked the fantastical luster typically associated with fairy dust.
His defeat further reduces the luster of a one-time conservative star who has been in decline for some time.
But when it comes to sensible policymaking, last year's legislative performance suggests the Golden State is fast losing its luster.
The European Union has lost what luster it had as a consequence of the debt crises of the past decade.
Reagan did not wish to detract from her husband's luster by appearing to be a power behind the presidential throne.
The idea that people are innately good — which is what Hilary hopes to prove — certainly has an enhanced quixotic luster.
And so the city, a year shy of its bicentennial, feels like a place with little luster left to lose.
It's an image of dejection, torpor; it seems anti-ballet, and especially alien to the outgoing luster of Balanchine ballet.
And since the arrest of Epstein, Vance's office and its purported commitment to protecting women has lost even more luster.
CNBC's on Wednesday advised that investors wait some days before buying stocks that have lost their luster in the market.
They have the luster of gloss, the opacity of lipstick, and the feel of lightweight, creamy balm — quite the triple threat.
It's that last part, however, that will continue to take some of the luster off stories like this until things improve.
But as the profile of Bernie's ideas rose, it seemed that Bernie the candidate lost a little bit of his luster.
In a large bowl or pitcher, mix the raspberry sorbet, ice cream, lemonade, club soda and luster dust until well combined.
As the hyperloop has come down to earth, it's lost some of its luster, becoming more like a faster, lighter train.
After dropping the girls off at school, Luster drove to a water station to pick up a new pack of water.
A grid that looked great while constructing can sometimes lose its luster, when viewed again after several months in the queue.
In some cases, tourist hotspots lose their luster because economics, with the surging cost of a visit keeping many travelers away.
Even if the military converted to voluntary service, supporters of such a shift say, enlisting could add luster to celebrity careers.
ISIS has lost much of its luster to would be jihadis and its territory; jihadist groups have suffered setbacks in Syria.
They see a big difference in the skin's luster and health, and we really see the skin start to perk up.
In "Rubies," one of her most brilliant vehicles, it will be interesting to see if and how her luster has changed.
Brooks requested a set of $250 "gold luster" serving bowls and $62 Eucalyptus napkin rings on his most recent wedding registry.
It appears that Mr. Modi, who seemed so invincible not long ago, may be vulnerable as his brand loses its luster.
For anyone who spends a certain amount of time in these spaces, even the shabbiest screening rooms acquire a certain luster.
Mr. Espy beat all the charges, but he lost his job and some of the luster of a rising Democratic star.
By the end of one performance, which is about redemption, Ms. Luster recalled another inmate referring to Vernon by his nickname.
But despite the media couple's 1980s-era salon luster, the house drew much of its fame — or infamy — from earlier stewards.
The second reason is that the City of London would likely lose its luster and experience an exodus of foreign banks.
But in a more relaxed era where stubbles and beards are making a comeback, premium razors started to lose their luster.
Our attitudes are schizoid, and yet looking back, no previous anti-immigrant outcry has added luster or honor to this country.
Entertaining is too low a goal; they need to revitalize, restore luster, bring a championship back to the best fans on Earth.
"You can always buff bare hardwood floors with a waxed or epoxy finish to bring back the wood's natural luster," says White.
The Link Bar still hasn't lost its one-of-a-kind luster, but perhaps that's part of the problem JBL is having.
Instead, they left open a loophole that has stripped the luster from one of the most ambitious health laws in the nation.
In retrospect, the whole thing looked like a political witch hunt designed to tarnish Clinton's political luster, as one disgruntled Republican charged.
Crowdfunding lost its luster over the past few years as major campaigns failed to deliver on millions of dollars' worth of promises.
Many are topped not only in frosting or cream but in gold, an effect Wolek achieves using eight-karat gold luster overglaze.
The hope, presumably, is that this will extend GoPro's reach and restore the company's luster (and sales) after a disappointing earning report.
"It's a soft metal but it's incredibly tough and ductile, and gold has a luster that does not fade," Mr. Genc said.
He anticipated the rise of casual attire, spotted underappreciated brands and knew when to sell them off before they lost their luster.
Ms. Luster said the performance was held in the prison's famed rodeo arena, where she made each portrait backstage, under the bleachers.
More importantly, it causes Haptic Touch to lose a bit of the luster that makes haptic feedback such a promising assistive technology.
Speculation of the grocery chain's possible closings set off lamentations on social media, though some said the chain had lost its luster.
A well-paying field like plastic surgery begins to look more appealing, while lower-paying jobs in family medicine lose their luster.
CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday advised that investors wait some days before buying stocks that have lost their luster in the market.
Family stress, work stress, too much travel, not enough sleep — all of these things can suck the luster out of your running.
"International organisations like WHO have lost lots of luster," Lawrence Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown University Law School, told Reuters.
This really is Doom in full, and it's lost none of its lean, brutal luster in the time since I first reviewed it.
For most people, a coffee, bagel, or slice of pizza is a daily or weekly food item that's lost its luster through repetition.
Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives But more often, what we are faced with in these photographs is something independent of ceremony, specificity, or luster.
Now that everyone has turn-by-turn driving directions on their phone, those kinds of standalone mapping products have really lost their luster.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History owns a pair of Dorothy's shoes that have gradually lost their luster and begun to deteriorate.
Could it be that Fox News is realizing its longtime bogeywomen, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, are losing their luster for their viewers?
Slice's brand began to lose its luster over time, until it was finally replaced in the early 2000s by the similar Sierra Mist.
Gold miners meanwhile lost ground as the precious metal failed to retain its luster a day after rallying on Yellen's go-slow signal.
But, now that I'm too big to knock on random peoples' doors and demand they give me treats, Halloween has lost its luster.
The lesson: As Black Luster Soldier advised, users should change their passwords on any other services with the same credentials as Dueling Network.
Mr. Roux and his brother added luster to their already exalted reputations when they opened the Waterside Inn in Bray, Berkshire, in 22002.
But while the celebrity magazines I once devoured might have lost their luster, they still looked like they'd be fun to write for.
Dry cleaning certain delicate fabrics may also shorten their life span, causing them to lose their luster and contributing to wear and tear.
Just like Wall Street before it lost its luster, the tech industry had become the destination of choice for the top college graduates.
The retailer has retained this futuristic luster even as Facebook, Twitter and Google, which promoted their own versions of technoparadise, have become suspect.
But the P.G.A. Championship, the major that celebrates largely unheralded club professionals like Thomas's father and grandfather, had added luster in his eyes.
Now, the ill-defined cybersecurity post may be Mr. Giuliani's best hope of adding some Trump administration luster to his private security business.
The potential shootout lost some luster early when Terrapins quarterback Kasim Hill was lost with a lower leg injury on Maryland's second series.
A port added luster to the "string of pearls" that China was starting to assemble all along the so-called Maritime Silk Road.
The Morgan Library & Museum will acquire 19238 works, including pieces by Thornton Dial, Nellie Mae Rowe, Henry Speller, Luster Willis, and Purvis Young.
I've always loved the shade of my skin, but sometimes I'm looking for a little extra pop and luster on my limbs and collarbone.
His brand of mythic realism lent an irresistible luster to "The Four Wise Men," a retelling of the biblical tale of the Three Magi.
Now that it's his job to sit on a pseudo plane day after day, traveling by aircraft  has lost a bit of its luster.
With tech having lost its luster, the industry is now facing more skepticism from all directions, Axios chief tech correspondent Ina Fried points out.
Alvarez used human hair from Indique (a brand loved by Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian), as the softness and luster makes it look more realistic.
It would seem, 11 years after the introduction of the first iPhone, that Apple's marquee product has simply lost a majority of its luster.
Lending instant luster to the new cathedral were King Peter II and Queen Alexandra, in exile from Yugoslavia, which abolished the monarchy in 1945.
A "Minerva, The Exalted Lightsworn" card has been sold for $1,900, while a "Black Luster Soldier" card awarded during the 1999 Yu-Gi-Oh!
The luxury sector has regained its luster after a year of stagnation, boosted by millennials and fashion-conscious Chinese consumers, according to a report.
But as their luster faded, a divide has emerged between the best- and worst-performing shopping centers, leaving a trail of "dead malls" behind.
But, in true Silicon Valley fashion, graduation is starting to lose some of its luster for founders hoping to move fast and break things.
The economy was hit by the worst downturn in decades and has yet to regain its luster; more than 13 million Brazilians are unemployed.
Her favorite festival has lost its luster and Van's left wandering the streets of Helen, on a tandem phone-searching and soul-searching mission.
Ms. Hajj left most of the house intact, reproducing moldings where they had gone missing and restoring the remaining woodwork to its original luster.
Measured by numbers of watches produced, Nomos is the largest of the companies responsible for reviving Glashütte's luster as a center of fine watchmaking.
The other day I did, and I was blown away, not by its link to the past but by its luster in the present.
The Australian Open, once the clear laggard among the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, has regained its luster by expanding relentlessly and taking chances.
Jean Edward Smith, a political scientist and renowned biographer whose works helped restore luster to the tarnished reputations of underrated presidents, died on Sept.
But until these amazing abilities lose their luster and become just more pieces of the transportation tech infrastructure that we trust, they'll be suspect.
If this fight for public education in Los Angeles fails, it will consign the luster of California schools to an ever more distant memory.
The coins on display here were dull from handling and time, but in another shop I found one that had not lost its luster.
Dog Chapman first made headlines in 2003 when he and his son captured Andrew Luster, an heir to the Max Factor cosmetics line, in Mexico.
We got Naomie leaving the Vanity Fair party Sunday night in Bev Hills, and the luster of winning clearly lost a little of its shine.
Smaller names, which had been viewed as being more insulated to trade pressures, are losing their luster following Sunday's late-night North American trade agreement.
It's got this nice gold-color luster," he said, but added, "You can't actually buy and sell gold at night on your desk, at home.
"This reflects, a bit, this lack luster environment in some activities but it also shows that the bank is really optimizing its resources," he added.
The funds, seen as maintaining their luster as prices in the economy rise, have been held back by weak inflation pressures in the United States.
Features that were impressive four or five years ago have lost their luster, and rival services have leapfrogged the famous virtual assistant in countless ways.
Each patent has been designed and printed using HDR ink-jet technology on Ultra Premium Luster Photo Paper with a basis weight of 180 gsm.
Skyrim, the various cities of Assassin's Creed, GTA V's Los Santos—even the lethal, parched landscape in Fallout 4 boasts its own kind of luster.
Back on the small screen, The Walking Dead lost its luster after season three, when the humans, and not the zombies, became the bad guys.
Certain products are easy, like [solid body tints] Shimmy Shimmy and Black Stockings, because they only require a single coat of luster on the outside.
It still makes solid phones, but after a few uninspiring models and several years of financial troubles, the brand lost a lot of its luster.
Luster didn't know just how much water they needed until she realized she was going through almost an entire 24-pack of water per day.
It seems that the luster of posting anonymous gossip, jokes and bullying may be wearing off, as it did for Yik Yak's dead cousin Secret.
The Sine's treble response is simply better, delivering just the right amount of sharpness to give the music life and luster without being too bright.
Jared Kushner, reportedly the new power behind the throne in the Trump administration, has tried to borrow luster from another presidential éminence grise, Henry Kissinger.
Ever since I listened to the chill acoustic folk-pop stylings of Mr. Sheeran for the first time, all other music has lost its luster.
But MbS' rising star has started to lose its luster, as his brutal campaign in Yemen drags on and his ambitious foreign-policy efforts founder.
Like the references to classical literature and art, they are also meant to class up the joint, adding some high-culture luster to the pulp.
Some legacies may be lost forever; others re-emerge or gain new luster when films that went missing resurface in a barn or an archive.
That's no small chunk of change, particularly as 3D printing has lost much of its luster in the consumer world over the past several years.
Finally, another fan noted the shine and luster in that bouncy, breakup blowout — even referencing Hannah Ann's likely future success as a post-Bachelor influencer.
Some investors still do not see enough value to warrant buying the shares, which have lost some of their luster as a blue-chip investment.
The Turner Prize, founded in 1984, was once one of the art world's most important awards, though lately it has lost some of its luster.
Some of the electrical cords were spliced, the paint was chipped and the luster gone, but everything was built to last and put to work.
"Any time you lose two games in a row, you lose some of the luster of being in first place," Washington Coach Jay Gruden said.
In large-scale live-action filmmaking, digital effects have lost much of their luster, serving less as tools for innovation than as shortcuts to bombast.
The filmmaker's devotion to the novelist adds luster and vigor to the images, but this is more than just an act of literary-minded reverence.
In San Francisco, where residents were told to shelter in place on Monday, Luster Productions informed performers on Saturday that it would suspend new shoots.
As a whole, the room is ostentatiously ornate — a classic Gilded Age interior — but its luster prevents the many design elements from weighing it down.
Now that we're a month into the new year, it's statistically likely that whatever health resolutions you set for 2020 have already lost their luster.
The way they dance with and not at each other — especially in Balanchine's "Diamonds" — creates the sort of luster that makes you forget about steps.
In any case, George's move to Oklahoma City only added more luster to the Western Conference while further diluting the quality of the Eastern Conference.
It was polished to a high luster from a pockmarked and eroded stone found in a derelict warehouse of headstones just outside the cemetery gates.
Call it fashion fatigue, a social media saturation, or jaded journalism, but the luster and sex-appeal was lost in the muddle of your iPhone.
Now that one is little more than an afterthought, and often irrelevant, to the larger clubs, the balance has gone, taking the luster with it.
Online wagering venues such as Ireland's PaddyPower, which express candidates' prospects as traditional sports-betting odds, show Trump losing luster as Rubio and Cruz gain steam.
I think there's a reason for the show's complete lack of luster: She obviously wants to maintain a higher level of privacy than her older sisters.
Gold, a precious metal often seen as a safe haven for investors, has been losing its luster even since those risks and situations began to fade.
Flint resident Gina Luster, whose 8-year-old daughter suffered lead poisoning, wants to see those charged pay a price for their roles in the crisis.
Luster said she feels blessed when she sees the donated pallet of water sitting in her basement, flanked by more packs of water ascending the stairs.
The franchise has lost a bit of its luster with every successive installment, but never has a "Pirates" film felt this inessential, this depressingly pro forma.
As the local matchup tries to gain footing and luster — headlining Major League Soccer's rivalry week — it has barely been much of a rivalry at all.
"Over the past few years, you've definitely seen the dinner and the events around it consistently lose a little luster," says journalist-turned-filmmaker Patrick Gavin.
The card industry's defense of its lack luster U.S. EMV roadmap continues with another article from the card industry's mouthpiece about the transition to chip cards.
In addition to protecting the university's name and brand, she defends Boise State's iconic blue turf football field from any copycats who would dull its luster.
Last October Mr. Elbaz was fired after 27 years spent breathing new life and luster into what is the oldest Parisian couture house in continuous existence.
Claire's has been further hurt as the malls in which many of its stores are located have lost their luster as a hotbed of teen activity.
Four years of waiting for some big announcement from the company, as laptop hinges loosen, trackpads go wonky, the screen laminent starts to lose its luster.
The hacker appears to have stolen at least 6.5 million accounts, although Black Luster Soldier cautioned that not all of those necessarily correspond to individual players.
The long-running and at times violent street protests in Hong Kong are helping tarnish its luster as the main physical gateway for gold to China.
But somehow the most familiar songs, rather than lending luster to this version of the story (written by Ritchie and John August), only highlight its incoherence.
He logged nearly 20,220 hours as a pilot, many with Pete Luster as his cockpit mate, before giving up the controls in 22017, at age 22006.
It has been further hurt as the malls in which many of its stores are located have lost their luster as a hotbed of teen activity.
On top of all of this, the political prize at the root of those travails — Jared Kushner's White House post — appears to be losing its luster.
But over the longer term, a weaker Europe deprived of one of its most dynamic economies will lose a bit of luster on the international stage.
All this loveliness has its pleasures, but Mr. Malick's visual choices also give the film a commercial luster that can rob that beauty of its power.
Ford is looking to the Bullitt Mustang, which will be sold in limited numbers, to restore luster to a brand and company struggling to redefine itself.
But President's track record indicates the luster of unity is unlikely to last: Many of his past attempts at bipartisanship have quickly evaporated amid tweeted barbs.
With renovated restaurants, reconstructed roads and a rotating cast of festivals celebrating everything from movies to music to boats, this island gem has regained its luster.
While Ms. Dawson imposed no penalty on the prime minister, her finding takes the luster off Mr. Trudeau's longstanding promise to run a government beyond reproach.
While a sudden disappearance of customers may not be the reception Apple wanted, it's far too early to say this means the iPhone has lost its luster.
For "One Big Self," with photographs by Deborah Luster, she interviewed inmates at three Louisiana prisons, then interspersed their voices with prison data, inmate correspondence and inventories.
But the magazine has now perhaps lost some of its luster, and many of its prominent writers, and it is not clear who might follow Mr. Hughes.
That's one of the larger reasons so many of the series's fans argue that Game of Thrones has lost its spine, or at least its unique luster.
Adding luster to the whole package, the movie's theme song, recorded by the folk-rock group the Seekers, climbed to the upper reaches of the pop charts.
Once lionized by many on the left, Assange has lost some of his luster in recent years as he has faced scrutiny over the sex assault allegations.
A third of Americans have found love across the open floor plan or in the cubicle next door — but workplace romances seem to be losing their luster.
Both House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black are former nominees that are technically eligible in 2019, though their luster has long since worn off.
Beyond her thinning and breaking hair, weight loss, rashes and more, Luster is worried about more than just the physical problems she and her girls are having.
By constantly reminding us that Trump throws money (and influence) at one Democrat after another, Cruz stole a little bit of that "outsider" luster away from Trump.
I hoped that once our own baby was born, Mother's Day would regain its luster for her and become a joyful holiday that we could share together.
For the heavyweight division to regain its luster, promoters and boxing officials are banking in part on Wilder continuing to develop and keeping his unbeaten streak alive.
New York (CNN Business)Gold has been a dud of an investment for much of the year, but it has started to regain some of its luster.
Losing some luster Learning to invest on Goldman Sachs' risk arbitrage desk, made famous by leader Robert Rubin, was once seen as a fast track to fortune.
His loss in the first bout, to Nate Diaz in March, threatened to tarnish his luster, but he avenged the loss in August in a close decision.
Lester (244-5) had lost his luster after the All-Star break, entering Thursday 0-3 with a 10.32 ERA in five starts since the Midsummer Classic.
This trope regained some of its luster with last fall's election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who might as well be the country's Boy Scout in chief.
He also expressed concerns that the queen's line of presumed successors — Charles, Prince of Wales; Prince William, Duke of Cambridge; and Prince George — may lack her luster.
The absence of players from the National Hockey League (NHL), the world's strongest league, also seemed to take some of the luster off the Russian team's victory.
Even his most famous photograph lost its luster with the surprise discovery of color video footage of the flag rescue, shot by a spectator from the stands.
The report says that Apple has lost its "luster" and is now forced to compete on a higher playing field with a number of new Chinese brands.
"You want to care for your nails with restorative nutrients like coconut and avocado oil to bring the shine and luster back to your base," Choi explains.
Hand-washed clothing, especially silk, often dries with some wrinkles or crunchiness, but a once-over with a steamer will quickly bring back its suppleness and luster.
And yet a canny Norma can lend the moment extra luster by singing just a fraction ahead of the beat and brightening the timbre of her voice.
Since Tuesday, pollsters and campaign operatives have been crunching the numbers on demographics, trying to reckon with how a lack-luster campaign could rise like a Phoenix.
As the modern world has lost its luster, however, herbs are coming into ascendance once more, reasserting their curative powers and claiming a beauty of their own.
Even the Museum of Contemporary Art has got in the 17th-century spirit with the substantial exhibition "Sanguine/Bloedrood," an exercise in luster, mortality and timeline-smashing.
Although Notre Dame was voted the national champion by the wire services, there were many who thought the game had taken some luster from the team's image.
At the time the original story came out, Sarah Lawrence's lack-luster response left many holes in finding justice for the abused former students of their institution.
Part of the reason is that China's economic prospects have lost some of their luster, as growth has eased to its slowest pace in a quarter-century.
At a time when stark political divisions are driving headlines, a place like the Highlands and the solid appeal of Ms. Miles' desserts have a new luster.
Many upscale labels have struggled lately with weak profits, declining mall traffic and an environment of discounting that has lost them some luster among their core customers.
The sheets are relatively affordable compared to other options, and they've got the perks of wrinkle-resistance, a slight sheen without too much luster, and feel fantastic.
All that luster, which too often in movies suggests polite manners and drowsily safe entertainment, proves to be a seductive, glossy way into something more satisfyingly complicated.
The new luster seems to come from the alchemy of wealthy private enterprise, a public administration open to experimentation and a young, cosmopolitan professional class hungry for culture.
As the loot grind loses its luster, the social makeup of Destiny coupled with its supremely sticky shooter gameplay is what makes it fun to come back to.
Most of those people will admire their super shiny phone exactly once, because, as reviewers have noted, that lust-worthy luster turns into a serious smudgefest within minutes.
Co-founder and co-CEO Alex Macdonald said that even if luxury goods have lost their luster in recent years, affluent consumers are still spending on upscale experiences.
But as a means to stand out in a crowded field, single-payer has lost some of its luster for Sanders as it gains traction within the party.
Combine this with the fact that many tech start-ups are staying private longer than they used to and ISOs lose much of their luster for employee retention.
In Passion Play (2012–13), the series of portraits taken from Angola's theatrical production and included in Aperture's exhibition, Luster again sets her subjects against a black background.
AmBank has also lost some of its luster after it was dragged into a political scandal linked to state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd and Prime Minister Najib Razak.
All in all, the greenback, while it has lost luster since early 2017, is not in danger of being unseated as the world's top reserve currency anytime soon.
Some luster was removed from first-round rookie Josh Doctson when he suffered an Achilles' injury in minicamp back in May, and he's apparently still feeling the effects.
Still, the mistake was disconcerting for a group seeking to defend its Olympic title from 2012 and add to the luster of its World Cup triumph last summer.
Her showcase aria, "Je dis que rien," had true glamour thanks to a tone of lean, quick-witted elegance, as well the occasional, well-placed touch of luster.
Luster and colleagues recruited 214 college women who received on-campus STI testing in 2017 and 2018 to answer questions about themselves, their grooming habits and sexual activity.
Gogol, fabulist of an empire that gave us the phrase "Potemkin village," feels almost predestined to illuminate this particular moment, the collective hangover of larceny losing its luster.
Ms. Warren has lost some of her luster in Iowa since early in the fall, eclipsed in state polls by Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind.
The NBC broadcast network has reclaimed its lost luster and Universal Pictures logged milestone years in 2015 and 2017 that crested the $5 billion global box office mark.
Breakingviews' Asia columnists explain how Hong Kong's economy and society have changed and ask whether this once-dominant regional financial center can regain some of its lost luster.
Quinn is a film critic turned novelist, and a cinematic luster silvers his fiction, which is briskly plotted, fluent in visual and verbal cliché and highly, guiltily satisfying.
It can either fully replace your usual oil, or be used as a sort of "booster" to give your go-to serum or oil a little extra luster.
The colors are records of inoculations and other health matters, but the luster of bristle and pigment seems to turn the animals into snorting, squealing works of art.
J.T. Barrett lost some of his luster at Ohio State in 225, when he threw for all of 123 yards in a brutal upset defeat against Michigan State.
Sleeping in Late-night and early-morning doorbuster specials, which used to be one of the biggest draws of Black Friday, appear to have lost their luster in 223.
The film expertly explains the timeline of how CA first worked off Ted Cruz's campaign, and nearly propelled that lack-luster candidate into first place in the Republican nominations.
In 2000, Andrew Luster, heir to a cosmetics fortune, was arrested for drugging three women with GHB — a colorless, odorless drug that can cause blackouts — and then raping them.
The departures hint at a broader challenge in the business world: How does a celebrated, tight-knit partnership keep the luster of its brand as it changes its personnel?
The idea of "working for the man" has lost its luster, and the pursuit of freedom to do what you want, when you want is extremely sexy and appealing.
Across offerings like A Different World (NBC), Roc (Fox), Living Single (Fox), and Moesha (UPN) the luster and intricacy of black life began to emerge in the cultural imagination.
After launching in January 2013, and a lot of initial popularity among teens and millennials, Vine lost its luster and its six seconds of fame came to an end.
Each of these mini-dynasties only produced a single championship; in retrospect, the overall disappointment associated with these teams took some of the luster off of their lone trophies.
"Turn Me Loose" gained additional celebrity luster when the musician John Legend; his producing partner, Mike Jackson; and their production company, Get Lifted Film Company, signed on to produce.
For years, the G-20 has been losing its luster as the premier global economic forum, transitioning to a platform for communication, negotiation and power struggle between major economies.
Although the revolution lost its luster, what never diminished was Mr. Castro's ability to confound American officials and to create situations to seize the advantage of a particular moment.
A young Maggie Smith appeared in Anouilh's "The Rehearsal" in London in 1961, and one can imagine Dame Maggie lending her comic luster to the defining role of Mrs.
Long-running and sometimes violent street protests in Hong Kong are helping tarnish its luster as the main physical gateway of gold to China, the world's top bullion buyer.
"More studies are needed to fully understand whether pubic hair grooming actually has anything to do with your risk of getting an STI," Luster told Reuters Health by email.
Still, Mr. Denis noted, Bombardier had lost some luster in recent months after it had announced plans to award millions to several top executives while cutting thousands of jobs.
The kick from cardamom, cinnamon, or ginger in a savory dish adds a layer of complexity to sauces, vegetables, or meat rubs that are otherwise sort of lack-luster.
Then it starts, for whatever reason, to lose its luster: Right now, emerging markets in general are being weighed down by a rising dollar and rising U.S. interest rates.
St. Luke's hospital and its affiliated Texas Heart Institute, where Cooley and Frazier did so much of their artificial heart research, have also lost their luster in recent years.
With more of a spotlight on him than ever, Biden will have to overcome his long history of losing his luster once voters get a better look at him.
A onetime intellectual enclave, Lastarria lost much of its luster over the last half-century as more modern suburbs rose farther away from the center, luring Lastarria's wealthier residents.
Sometimes he would test the product and discover the THC had been watered down, initially with propylene glycol, which is used in fog machines, to add a smokey luster.
In a city that is getting a reputation for being all about money, Mr. Campbell's high-profile work has the chance to give new luster to less crass concerns.
As soon as it feels like someone is giving you talking points or like a manifesto on a soapbox, I think it loses a little bit of the luster.
His new enterprises — collectively they are called Plank Industries but nearly all have Sagamore in their names — are reshaping Baltimore's waterfront and restoring luster to Maryland traditions and landmarks.
My hair overall had more luster and shine, it had grown down to my shoulders, and I noticed way less loose hair in my shower drain after washing it.
In the last month, however, their royal luster has dimmed in the British press as they face accusations of laziness and enjoying the high life while shirking official duties.
As in many Southern, or at least Southern-adjacent, states, the Democratic label is fine for the county clerk but quickly loses its luster the higher the elected office.
For Adalberth, the years at Klarna wondering and worrying about credit ratings, credit offerings and payments had lost their luster, and the young multi-millionaire was looking for something more.
In his piece "Bandera magonista (Magón's flag)," Rubén Ortiz-Torres offers viewers the nearly inscrutable words "Tierra Y Libertad," obscured in a painting that appears as a red monochromatic luster.
However, the impact of the comments was short-lived as the beaten down dollar recovered slightly and gold prices lost some of their luster after gaining for four straight days.
In 1999, the winner of the very first Yu-Gi-Oh tournament held in Japan was given a one-of-a-kind Black Luster Soldier card made of stainless steel.
This might be a reference to the fact that Bran is in residence at Winterfell now, and his presence as the Three-Eyed Raven restored the luster of the weirwood.
Winston, who grew up at the Watergate working under her father managing the complex, believes the renovation will give the complex a fresh start and bring back its lost luster.
Even when McConaughey tried something different — as in the Al Pacino-led 2005 sports gambling drama Two for the Money — his output lacked the luster of those revelatory early turns.
What had loomed as one of the most intriguing regular-season finales lost any luster for both teams when the Pittsburgh Penguins visit the New York Rangers on Sunday night.
Comics Sam Reece, Mark Vigeant and Drew Luster want to adorn your coffee table with "Dad Poems" in a book they've titled Leaves of Grass I Trimmed With My Mower.
What was shaping up as one of the marquee matchups of the season lost some of its luster when Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger suffered a torn meniscus last weekend.
In the battle for top talent in the technology sector, the allure of perks such as free massages and unlimited vacation has lost some of its luster, by some accounts.
The concept of threat is big right now, while the word terrorism appears to be losing some of its luster, at least when it comes to opening up spending coffers.
The 2016 edition of the biennial camera show has lost some of its luster and techie momentum with Samsung's... According to two newspaper reports, Apple is interested in buying McLaren.
By delivering the formidable luster of her social standing, as well as an extra pair of hands, the intervening senior pretty much guaranteed that the skirmish would break her way.
The sweeping, floor-length curtains of Tom Pye's set lend a visual luster to proceedings that are presided over by Penelope Wilton as a rather wearyingly deadpan matriarch, Helena Ekdahl.
And anecdotes tinged with casually mystical elements, like the ubiquitous gray cobra whom the family recognizes as the embodiment of the spirit of Ondaatje's father, add to the memoir's luster.
Reebok's Compression sports bra and Ultracor's Holograph Luster leggings both feel like a wetsuit made of butter (the latter is $185 which gives me anxiety on its own, but still).
She estimated that the company would usually employ 30 to 40 people each month, though some of those people would only work for Luster one day out of the year.
He averaged 18 a game for the Knicks, but the luster is off this onetime star point guard, especially after he skipped a game without informing the team last season.
The rumpled fabric lend the trio a disheveled look, the inverted pants recalling dirty rabbit ears, but a sheen of glitter on the lacquered surface adds luster to the mundane.
Once known as the edgy network for cool kids, MTV lost its luster in recent years as the former Viacom management failed to invest in programming or a digital strategy.
Gem-cut glass added luster, and the combining of colors within single pieces of glass reduced the need for leading, reserving it to render lines for the delineation of figures.
There were glimpses of the old luster during Colombia's friendly against France in March, when the South Americans roared back from 2-0 down to beat "Les Bleus" 20143-2.
The retailer, which filed for bankruptcy two years ago, had already closed hundreds of stores in recent years as its brand lost luster among women searching for deals on shoes.
A recent controversy took some—or perhaps a lot—of the luster off its release, but if you were able to take the game on its own, it's an impressive achievement.
VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) Gold has regained its luster over the last six weeks after being a loser for years and trading flat for the first half of 217.
By the time Snap gets to viable AR Spectacles, the company founded in 2011 could be ten years old and starting to lose its luster with the next generation of teens.
To create Hudgens' holiday look, Capri — who also styles Julianne Hough and Nina Dobrev's locks — used Joico's K-PAK Color Therapy Luster Lock Treatment to make her hair shiny and vibrant.
He lost by 7% to Alexander Van der Bellen, who solidly supports the EU. Hofer's anti-immigrant message lost its luster a bit because the migrant crisis has eased somewhat. 4.
But even as momentum for criminal justice reform has faded nationally and lost some of its luster at the local level, New York politicians are still trying to change the game.
While investors have endured torrid times as global equity markets have slumped, even worse tribulations may be required for the precious metal to regain its past luster as a safe haven.
Yet even though Cyber Monday offers some deeper discounts than Black Friday's, the makeshift holiday is still losing its luster, said Brian Nagel, senior retail and e-commerce analyst at Oppenheimer.
Scientists made the discovery when they were reviewing photos taken on the rover's camera and noticed a strange material inside a crater that showed "color and luster" unlike the surrounding terrain.
Increasingly implicated in backroom deals with corporations, the party lost its luster, and in 2016 its last elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was removed from office amid a host of competing accusations.
Before the strike, Mr. Icahn had promised to invest $100 million to renovate the Taj, which has lost much of the luster it had when it was Mr. Trump's crown jewel.
While the service would admittedly still be a bargain at $10 a month, MoviePass would lose a lot of luster if users were no longer able to see the latest films.
Instead, the sector has stumbled through the year, the luster of its "Trump trade" status wearing thin and even the prospect of higher interest rates doing little to stoke more buyers.
The presence of four German giants, with BMW and Audi regulars already, adds luster to a city-based championship that has grown steadily since a financially precarious first season in 2014.
It was big and still quite profitable, but the company had lost its luster, failing or trailing in the markets of the future like mobile, search, online advertising and cloud computing.
H & R Block, as a diversified financial services company, lost some its luster after 2000, when Henry stepped down as chairman and retired (though he remained as an active unofficial overseer).
If prosecutorial service is no longer a golden ticket to a successful political career, then being a prosecutor could lose some of its luster to young lawyers seeking power and prestige.
But there were also items like the bottom half of a 2000th-century Persian Kashan luster pottery tile that failed to sell against a low estimate of £2,000, or about $2,600.
It helps that the musical director Nigel Lilley's 21-strong orchestra delivers the score with unusual luster: the brass section, by way of example, sends Buddy's revelatory "The Right Girl" soaring.
It is the first step in a plan to bring a glamorous resort back to the site, and perhaps, with it, a bygone luster to the storied but tattered Catskills itself.
These two trends — trying to don the Tech Hero mantle, while at the same time tech loses its luster — seem to conflict, but they intersect when it comes to making money.
He's the author of the same number of prior books (four), lives in the same place (New Orleans), has the same friends (the photographer Deborah Luster) and the same murdered father.
Even Benjamin Netanyahu's undisputed advantage over every challenger, his primacy on the international stage as Israel's longest-serving prime minister, has lately been a source of as much embarrassment as luster.
The news of Fairway's potential end set off lamentations on social media and on the streets of New York, though there were some who said the chain had lost its luster.
When Clinton's party won big in the 1998 midterm elections -- as the public reacted negatively to the Republican House's impeachment of him -- the whole impeachment thing lost more of its luster.
While the luster of a professional league continually lingers, the Whitecaps stay closely aligned with and protective of their original mission, to provide a top-quality outlet for women's hockey players.
Even so, they maintained their luster in the last burst of golden, late-afternoon light that washed over Newtown before the darkness, which had been arriving earlier and earlier, set in.
The Mississippi Museum of Art acquired works by Works by Benny Andrews, McArthur Binion, Jeffrey Gibson, Titus Kaphar, Glenn Ligon, Deborah Luster, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Noah Saterstrom, and Hank Willis Thomas.
With the promotion now having lost its former luster, Josh set his sights on the newly formed Glory Kickboxing and was signed to the promotion just two years after it was founded.
Gold edged lower on Tuesday, losing its luster ahead of a two-day meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve that is expected to deliver the second interest rate rise in a decade.
The paper has since shed its most venerable staffers and lost its luster as an insider's guide to the New York elite, but still serves as a mouthpiece for Kushner's powerful friends.
While he has been able to hire some of the most experienced staffers in Democratic politics, his bid has lost its luster, even as O'Rourke has campaigned vigorously all across the country.
Oklahoma City has clinched the No. 22 seed in the Western Conference and San Antonio has wrapped up the No. 212.5 seed, which has diminished some of the luster of the matchup.
Even as air travel has lost much of its former luster, it's a career that still maintains an air of glamour, thanks to the cute uniforms, free flights, and sense of adventure.
The global benchmark was up 0.11% at $65.13 per barrel, though U.S. crude remained weaker, down 0.05% at $59.06 a barrel Spot gold retained its luster, adding 0.52% to $1,391.26 per ounce.
Gold miners lost some of their early luster in afternoon trade along with bullion prices ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's policy speech to a joint session of Congress at 9 p.m.
As the seventh main entry in a series that has lost quite a bit of luster since 2005's Resident Evil 4, RE7 needed to do something different and do it well.
While Luster is responsible for the design of the book and its graphics, Reece and Vigeant — both Upright Citizens Brigade performers — started this project out by reciting their original dad poems onstage.
But upon getting in his car, the Compton legend allegedly became horrified by the tweaked sonics, returned to the studio, and spent several hours restoring the audio fidelity to its former luster.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History owns a pair of Dorothy's shoes — one, apparently, of at least seven made for Judy Garland's part — but they appear to have lost their luster.
President Trump has with his actions helped restore America to its human-rights luster and Arab life to the claim of infinite value that is the birthright of every child of God.
"This whole thing that is bitcoin, bitcoin going up, it has really taken away the luster of gold," the "Mad Money" host told a caller in a fireside chat on Friday's show.
If you were thinking about buying a $100 million spread, for example, you might want to sit on your cash a little longer, because trophy homes seem to be losing their luster.
The Post noted how police work has, "lost some luster" and cited declining recruitment rates of 26 percent in 2014 from the year before and dipped an additional 28 percent in 2015.
The Gig has restored our luster and given us a new lever to pull that has tied us to the next century, rather than the steam and smoke of the old century.
When Lenny disappears, fleeing the prospect of conviction and imprisonment, the narrative loses some of its luster and force, a loss that only highlights the full magnetism of his impossible, incandescent charm.
It said the stone is a D color, Type IIa diamond, meaning it is colorless and very radiant, without any yellow tint or impurities like nitrogen that absorb light and decrease luster.
Diamonds have a brilliant, adamantine luster that makes them easy to spot, and Ms. Hollingshead happened to be sitting in just the right place to see the diamond sparkle in the sun.
Experts familiar with his record at IBM say he is an excellent choice to lead the company at a time when it is struggling to regain its luster in the tech world.
Most of the hottest new books about tech companies have focused on startups and companies barely a decade old — but Silicon Valley stalwarts like Apple haven't lost all their literary luster yet.
Many die-hard railroaders dream that the economics will change someday and that train travel will regain its luster, but Mr. Thornton is not waiting for the 7:22 to someplace great.
Here, she brought her inventive luster to a decidedly odd role: In Balanchine's "Variations Pour Une Porte et Un Soupir" ("Variations for a Door and a Sigh"), Ms. Mearns plays the Door.
For Mr. Sharif, the controversy has taken some luster off the popular image he enjoyed after a successful campaign against Taliban militants that began in 2014, clearing militant strongholds in northwest Pakistan.
Using sable paintbrushes and a cleaning solution, Evans has been restoring the gold —some of which is completely caked over in black gunk — to its original luster for the past two weeks.
The Olympics movement is concerned the Games is losing its luster, with a pattern of cities pulling out of bidding for both summer and winter Games after baulking at huge costs required.
Yet McCain lost some of this luster afterwards, and he aggressively sought to establish himself as a loyal Republican as he sought to ward off conservative primary challengers in 2010 and 2016.
He worked with the International Olympic Committee to allow NBA players to compete in the Olympic Games, beginning in 21, bringing new luster to both the Olympics and the sport of basketball.
The lawn has already lost its luster in drier regions of the country, where homeowners have embraced trends like xeriscaping, a landscaping style that favors plants that need little or no watering.
The movie adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians, out this Wednesday, is "a cinematic jewel box, each compartment brimming with jaw-dropping opulence and brilliant luster," writes Vox culture reporter Alex Abad-Santos.
And while its all day breakfast option was a popular innovation, it seemed to be losing its luster, forcing the restaurant company to contemplate other ways to bring in customers and drive sales.
Luster had fled from Southern California to Mexico during his rape trial and was convicted in absentia of raping three women after drugging them and videotaping the act, CNN reported at the time.
The level of interest is unclear, said one legal source familiar with the matter, with another person adding that the mine's remote location, technical challenges and high reclamation liability have diminished its luster.
LONDON (Reuters) - Emerging markets have lost their luster for Big Pharma making drug firms ever more dependent on the United States for growth just as American anger over high medicine prices is building.
At the time Mi-Anne and I took on the challenge, I was dealing with my hair losing its luster, strength, and thickness during the most stressful time of my life — college graduation.
Even the idea of perfection began to lose its luster when it was marshaled not in service of a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon, but awarded dozens of times in a single Games.
Though much of the club's Indiana Jones luster has worn off, they were eager to show off their iguana and poisonous lionfish dishes, which our adventurous Alex was more than willing to consume.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The market for luxury homes in the Hamptons, the summer playground for Wall Street's wealthiest, is losing some of its luster as financial markets limp along for a second year.
The big sprites and bold colors lose a lot of their luster when seen on a modern HD screen, and the speed of each contender is sluggish in comparison to Ryu et al.
In a magazine business that has lost much of its luster in recent year, Vanity Fair has largely retained its glow, and its editorship remains one of the most coveted in the business.
The film's director, Scott Cooper, gives Mr. Bulger some of his luster back, portraying him as a charismatic antihero, even as he "does terrible, unforgivable things," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
Perhaps above all, this was the year that Big Tech lost its luster, when Google, Facebook, Amazon, and others finally came under widespread scrutiny—from the press, politicians, and the broader public alike.
After all, the average millennial between the ages of 18 to 34 takes about nine selfies per week, according to a survey conducted in 863 by Luster White Premium, a teeth-whitening brand.
Given the massive amounts of popularized content being churned out by Bollywood and Indian television every year, the Netflix library immediately loses its premium label and luster for the average user in India.
In a magazine business that has lost much of its luster in recent years, Vanity Fair has largely retained its glow, and its editorship remains one of the most coveted in the business.
He is also struggling to add luster to the damaged brand of the PT, which ran Brazil for 13 of the last 15 years and is blamed by many for the country's woes.
"The energy is here in New York, but it's up to the people in power," he said, to restore the luster the city seems to have ceded as a necessary capital of fashion.
BENGALURU/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Long-running and sometimes violent street protests in Hong Kong are helping tarnish its luster as the main physical gateway of gold to China, the world's top bullion buyer.
BENGALURU/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Long-running and sometimes violent street protests in Hong Kong are helping tarnish its luster as the main physical gateway of gold to China, the world's top bullion buyer.
Updating the highly comfortable boot in high-sheen color-ways, the "Luster Pack" features silhouettes in silver, black, and white, which have been constructed from durable patent leather with Clarks' signature crepe sole.
The Village Voice, a once-iconic New York newspaper whose tumult in the last several years has overshadowed its journalism, has named a new top editor as it looks to regain its luster.
Suburban office parks have lost their luster for a variety of reasons, including a growing preference among younger workers for life in more dynamic urban centers than in sometimes staid and sleepy suburbs.
A reluctant movie star who was always suspicious of celebrity's luster, he was more at home as one of the theater's most original and prolific portraitists of what was once the American frontier.
With Britain at risk of suffering barriers to trade, it has lost some of its considerable luster as a place for companies to invest, making its money a less desirable currency to hold.
Unfortunately, Burton's films and the fantastical worlds within them lose much of their luster (at least for those of us who know better) when confronted with a serious lack of people of color represented.
Apple continues to amass a vast reserve last valued at $260 billion, but its top-tier devices have lost their luster, and it's been years since the company released a truly game-changing product.
"The embroidery is dégradé from top to bottom and ombré from warm gold to rose gold—almost undetectably, but it really adds to the dimension and luster of the piece," they told the outlet.
A family comes together to survive Since losing her job and taking on whatever random work she can, like cleaning a dialysis center at night, Luster is grateful for the help of her family.
Investors and analysts said technology unicorn IPOs are losing their luster, not just because more investors are asking tough questions about their prospects, but because the startups overestimated pent-up demand for their offerings.
Special Report: Italian Grand Prix For Formula One fans, and particularly for Italian ones, there are not enough superlatives in any language to express the importance, the legend, the luster of the Ferrari team.
At the very least, Mr. Murray's new role means the company will have to find a new editor for Fortune, a big-name brand whose luster, like that of other magazines in Time Inc.
However, the retailer has been caught in an uphill battle for relevance in an era where mall brands continue to lose their luster, falling behind trendy e-commerce sites and direct-to-consumer brands.
Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters Friday that ISIS in 2018 will be seen as a "brand" for terrorists but insisted the group has lost its luster and still needs to be hunted down.
Similarly, the ability to win at chess was once considered a high mark of human intelligence, but ever since Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997, this cognitive skill has lost its former luster.
MySpace, LiveJournal, Kiki Kannibal, and other mid-2000s internet darlings may have lost their luster, but SuicideGirls continues to attract 6.2 million Instagram followers, almost three million more than the first daughter Ivanka Trump.
But it lost its luster as the century wore on, becoming something like the Rainbow Room of Paris, where well-to-do families would celebrate their young passing the baccalaureate examination, or an engagement.
The Four Seasons Restaurant, which opened in 1959, had lost much of its luster by the early 1970s, when two new owners, Tom Margittai and Paul Kovi, began a rejuvenation and hired Mr. Niccolini.
We need to restore the luster of the California dream and make sure that that dream is for everyone, not based on your ZIP code or what part of the state you live in.
Anbang's international luster had already dulled after it withdrew an application last year to buy an Iowa insurer, Fidelity & Guaranty Life, and also shelved a $14 billion bid to buy Starwood Hotels and Resorts.
Although certainly recalling the reality of global organ trafficking, the physical approachability of the chest-high sculpture, along with the luster of its trapped glass objects, invite onlookers in only to alarm and repel.
Several other surveys have suggested Trump's brand has lost some luster in the campaign and there have reports of slashed rates at Trump's new hotel in Washington, D.C., and declines in bookings at his properties.
And despite record attendance, IDF has lost a fair amount of luster over the years as the PC has shifted from the center of the tech world to being just another device on the internet.
His luster was dulled, however, by a Senate investigation of the "Keating Five" - five senators suspected of doing favors for campaign contributor Charles Keating Jr. The panel eventually found Glenn did nothing improper or illegal.
But as the Fed halted its rate-hike run late last year, and told investors this month that it does not foresee any increases in 2019, that pitch of rising payments has lost its luster.
But the stock lost its luster two years ago after its biggest-ever deal, the $32 billion acquisition of Baxalta, which increased its exposure to the hemophilia treatment market at a time of major uncertainty.
Briton Peaty added more luster to his reputation as perhaps the world's most dominant swimmer when he smashed his own 2100 meters breaststroke mark in 250 seconds en route to his 223.74th major gold medal.
In the silver and gold dining room by Alex Papachristidis, Claude Lalanne chairs have an alligator skin crust, and a gold luster-glazed hand-thrown gourd by Christopher Spitzmiller is as big as a puppy.
Ancient Egypt just started to lose its luster when I heard the same tired jokes about Egypt, when people kept asking me if I Walk Like an Egyptian, read hieroglyphics or live in a pyramid.
While it's clear that a compendium of styles contribute to The Breathing Effect's sound, Gross and Terrell have melded them all into such a convincing alloy that its musical genealogy becomes secondary to its luster.
Though the auto industry has seen some struggles since its heyday — as has the Detroit Institute of Arts, which has emerged from a protracted bankruptcy drama — it does not dull the luster of these designs.
But as with many sepia-toned institutional heroes, the luster of his accomplishments has dimmed in retrospect, not least because he minimized the contributions of his Mongolian assistants in service of a queasy American imperialism.
For decades, Uptown, one of Chicago's most storied neighborhoods, struggled to regain its early-to-mid-century luster when jazz and swing musicians dominated the music scene and ornate movie halls catered to robust crowds.
More like him, Mr. Luster said, were pensive moments even in the gym, sitting in a chair, hand on chin, waiting and listening, as he captured Ali before another exhibition match in Louisville in 1978.
Alabama and Auburn won, making potential future Bulldogs wins against them more impressive in the committee's eyes, and Notre Dame's victory kept the luster on Georgia's 113-19 victory over the Fighting Irish in September.
If you take a close look at the hood prior to washing and waxing it, you can see that the paint had lots of watermarks, imperfections, and lacked the luster of a good paint job.
"It loses its luster, and it's hard because there's typically one N.B.A. or N.H.L. team in a given market," said Mr. Blatt, who could not name another arena that was transformed into a filming space.
A perceived bailout of PG&E is losing luster among legislators and regulators and is far from assured, S&P Global said when it stripped the company of its investment-grade rating late on Monday.
The revolving door between tech and Washington may have lost some of its luster — a job at Google or Facebook isn't as shiny as it used to be — but it is still functioning just fine.
Two other partners added luster to the operation: the respected California chef Nancy Silverton and Lidia Bastianich, Mr. Bastianich's mother, the chef and owner of Felidia, in Manhattan, and a beloved authority on Italian cuisine.
When I look at the list of things he asked each day, like how does light form luster on a shiny leaf, why do people yawn, what does the tongue of a woodpecker look like?
Leaders in Osaka, Japan's third-largest city and the largest in western Japan, are hoping the expo will revitalize a city that has lost much of its luster to Tokyo, the nation's political and economic capital.
Shinjiro Koizumi, who inherited the political mantle and luster of his father, said he will wed Christel Takigawa, a French-Japanese television personality known as the face of Tokyo's successful bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
And acceptance — like relatability, which supposedly leads to tolerance — is, for some, losing its luster at a time when assimilating queer people into an anti-queer mainstream seems increasingly like settling for the straight world's scraps.
GETTING GREEDY Investors and analysts said technology unicorn IPOs are losing their luster, not just because more investors are asking tough questions about their prospects, but because the startups overestimated pent-up demand for their offerings.
Although Daniel Sullivan shapes the performances nicely, this veteran director doesn't exactly add to the luster of his long career here; nor does this perfectly respectable production, with handsome sets by David Rockwell, detract from it.
He started to represent a life outside of hooking, but the only problem is that it truly was all an illusion, they wouldn't always have the luster of the Mandarin Oriental and the fancy steakhouse dinners.
Luster took portraits of inmates against black backgrounds, sometimes in costumes (one woman poses in her disguise for a Halloween-themed haunted house), and sometimes against the background of the fields surrounding Angola where they worked.
"I would like to see the Senate restore some of it's earlier luster, thinking of the great giants in the Senate in the past, and with truly bipartisan Democrats and Republicans, let them investigate," Brown said.
My review unit had the "Breathing Crystal" color, which is a purple-to-blue-to-white gradient that looks quite beautiful but loses its luster once you put the phone into the (included), see-through case.
The moon collection didn't lose its luster in the 20 minutes I had with the game, but it runs the risk of becoming a bit monotonous if it doesn't keep things fresh throughout the game's kingdoms.
Special Report: Rolex Australian Grand Prix Suggesting that Formula One has lost some of its luster with its new, quieter engines and the domination of the series by Mercedes is something of a fashion these days.
The idea is as much about creating objects of beauty as about reviving some of Flint's lost manufacturing luster, as chronicled by Michael Moore's acclaimed movie "Roger & Me" about the shutdown of its local auto plants.
Mr. Hekkert said that he believed that in the last five to 10 years, the Western world consumerist reliance on instant gratification — the belief that buying new shiny stuff made us happy — was losing its luster.
It occurred to me that here, in this "most beautiful of cities devised by man," as Elizabeth once described it, perhaps the luster of the Brownings had simply faded — and compared to all this, whose wouldn't?
Bill Luster, whose photograph of Ali looking out from the ring during an exhibition match in Louisville in 1976 is on the cover, said he remembered Ali as "a quiet and intense guy" behind the scenes.
Beginning with a brief account of the Jackson 5's enormous initial success, "Journey" skips ahead to the their defection from Motown to Epic Records, where they became the Jacksons (and lost much of their early luster).
Chipotle executives appear willing to step outside their comfort zone to fix what ails the chain, "but we also question whether (Chipotle) will ever regain its lost luster," Deutsche Bank analyst Brett Levy said in a note.
The flops included the real estate-oriented Trump University, Trump Mortgage, Trump Airlines and Trump Vodka but it was his experience with four casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, that took the golden luster off his empire.
These conveniences aren't a reason to stop scrutinizing your monthly statement for irregularities, but the big money apps are now efficient enough at most things that once-alluring alternatives like Simple have lost their luster for me.
A series that once loomed as a potential showdown for supremacy atop the National League West has lost much of its luster since the Los Angeles Dodgers' near-unstoppable run to the best record in the majors.
"It is concerning that active taxable bond funds have lost some of their luster as investors historically were willing to pay up for active bond funds even as they shifted to passive for equity strategies," Rosenbluth said.
Morphe, whose investors include Summit Partners LP's Elevate Brandpartners, is part of a wave of fast-growing brands in the cosmetics industry that are mastering new online sales channels, as department-store makeup counters lose their luster.
Drawn to the prosaic qualities of pottery, and its association with domesticity, Perry found he could tell his stories on classical ceramic pot forms with layer upon layer of glorious, glazed color, metallic luster, texture, and text.
The German is the only man to beat Hamilton over a season in the V6 turbo hybrid era that started in 2014 and the more success Hamilton has, the more luster it adds to his own achievement.
Gold rose more than 3% as it regained a bit of its safe-haven luster and the yield on U.S. Treasuries fell as emergency measures aimed at stabilizing financial markets took hold after days of sharp volatility.
Rather than participating in this fair, these schools could add luster to their brands by investing in comprehensive professional development programs, paying adjuncts more money, diversifying faculty, increasing visiting artists, or simply adding to their scholarship funds.
Within the tech community, the festival has traditionally served as a launching pad for hyped startups and a brand orgy for large companies that want some of Silicon Valley's luster to rub off on their own businesses.
Hertz has limited availability in eclipse viewing destinations, according to Lauren Luster, a spokeswoman for the company, and Avis has some availability in cities near eclipse destinations including Atlanta and Memphis, said Alice Pereira, a company spokeswoman.
In addition, celebrating Valentine's Day gives the upwardly mobile urban couple's love the legitimacy of individual choice -- with roses, chocolates and jewelry adding a bit of luster to the worn and antiquated patina of an arranged marriage.
The new flagship headphones from Apple-owned Beats are basically the old Solo 26s with the added luster of Apple's W73 wireless chip, as featured on the AirPods, and big promises about extended battery life and rapid recharging.
The new flagship headphones from Apple-owned Beats are basically the old Solo 27s with the added luster of Apple's W2300 wireless chip, as featured on the AirPods, and big promises about extended battery life and rapid recharging.
That would be Sam Ratelle, who can be spotted at similar high-wattage events, hovering phantom-like behind the scenes, tweaking a collar or wayward seam, making sure that no random wardrobe malfunction will dim his client's luster.
In the past few weeks, the group has lost its luster partially because a rate hike from the Fed later this year could put a dent in the bond market alternatives, and also because of the strong dollar.
It was Penn pointing the finger at celebrated nutritionist Mike Dolce for his lack-luster performance, and his calling for a fight with Dolce's former client Lentz that began the hype train for the proposed March 5 bout.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. 30-year government bond regained some luster on Tuesday as yield-hungry investors who had been skittish about owning longer-dated debt, loaded up on $12 billion of this maturity at an auction.
The actor whose biting portrayal of President Donald Trump has helped reenergize "Saturday Night Live" is emerging as a popular choice for candidates and state parties searching for new luster in the midst of a Democratic power vacuum.
Amalia Ulman's composition evokes a pigeon's scrappy nest, and in Monira Al Qadiri's "Cosa Nostra," flowers protrude from a giant artificial pearl with a gasoline-like luster that recalls the artist's work on petroleum industries in the Gulf.
But the duo's deal arguably lost some luster during the much-maligned final season of "Game of Thrones" earlier this year as many fans questioned whether the "GOT" creators had the storytelling chops to handle a Jedi saga.
One way or another, he has to choose his timing so he makes maximum use of his assets without appearing to be destructive or to lose the campaign luster and appear to be just another crusty old man.
But over recent years, Stanford administrators noticed that as the school rejected more and more comers, it received bigger and bigger donations, its endowment rising in tandem with its exclusivity, its luster a magnet for Silicon Valley lucre.
It's like a Hail Mary pass that can somehow defeat his enemies in the media and intelligence agencies, disprove the story that there are questions about the legitimacy of his election and restore the luster of his presidency.
Or perhaps these records have lost a little of their luster in recent years, as the gap between the major nations — a status Canada still just about merits in women's soccer — and everyone else has grown so wide.
In the ceramic "Lao Tzu's Journey" (2011), Seborovski disrupts the surface with circular openings rimmed by gold or platinum luster, and redeploys the latter to top the three vertical forms rising from the vessel's double stacked, rounded body.
But the postbrunch atmosphere for Sunday's game had all the buzz of a linoleum convention, an indictment of two lousy teams playing for nothing — and an indication, perhaps, that James has lost some of his luster this season.
Records was investigated for money laundering and many of the artists Def Jam had launched in the 218s were losing some of their luster entering the aughts—Def Jam was still one of the biggest names in music.
Chu — who knows his way around glittering spectacle from his work on the Step Up movies and Now You See Me 2 — has created a cinematic jewel box, each compartment brimming with jaw-dropping opulence and brilliant luster.
Cloudera provides products and services that build on the open-source Hadoop technology, which is a method of storing and processing huge data sets, which was a buzzy technology in 2015 but has since lost some of its luster.
The founder, Marla Beck, is intensely aware of the customer's need for natural formulations and has even launched her own skin-care brands, Lune+Luster and M-61, after noticing a lack of safe ingredients in the beauty realm.
Trump insists the United States has been cheated economically for decades by countries like China and must regain its luster, while Xi wants China, once an ancient empire, to be able to flex its muscles on the world stage.
In 15th-century Florence, Luca della Robbia invented a glazing technique for terra cotta that gave it a never-before-seen color and luster, and his family studio, which guarded the secret for generations, rose to renown throughout Europe.
But even if his four years in office have taken some of the luster off Buhari, he remains popular in Kano, perceived by many as an incorruptible foe of the rampant graft that has plagued Nigerian politics for decades.
But with earmarks banned -- making it nearly impossible to bring home pet projects or use the promise of them as leverage in negotiations -- and spending bills mired in the legislative mud, the committee has lost some of its luster.
But the luster for Lula and his wife of 43 years has worn off in recent years as Brazil's boom fizzled into a recession under his hand-picked successor, and as the couple became ensnared in a far-reaching corruption investigation.
A month after the boy went missing, Fleming and Luster scheduled a garage sale of the boy's toys to make money to relocate to Seattle, but they didn't go through with the sale after media reports, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
That total should easily put the film in the top spot at the Memorial Day box office -- a holiday weekend that used to be one of the biggest on Hollywood's calendar, but has lost some of its luster in recent years.
The Houston Astros are enjoying the best start in franchise history, although losses in six of their last eight contests - including four of the first five of their nine-game homestand - have taken a bit of the luster off the accomplishment.
While the Final Fantasy name is still well known, over the years it has lost much of its luster, and more recent releases haven't captured the imagination of players the way the series once did on the SNES and original PlayStation.
BEVERLY HILLS (Reuters) - Europe, long a major destination of investor capital, is losing luster, say prominent bankers and asset managers, who are reducing exposure to the area because of concerns about issues ranging from Brexit to France's "yellow vest" protests.
But as the luster has worn off his young presidency, and the impact of early reforms to the labor code and tax rules have yet to filter through, rivals have sought to depict an increasingly isolated figure with diminished star power.
Here, though the lawyers are given the unquestionable luster of heroism, there is something beautiful about the way Edgerton slumps in his chair as a young Cohen tries to convince him to get arrested again for a strategic legal reason.
The copier maker Xerox is considering a cash-and-stock bid for the computer company HP, a move that would unite two fading tech giants that are scrambling to restore their luster, reports Cara Lombardo of the WSJ, citing unnamed sources.
The 2016 edition of the biennial camera show has lost some of its luster and techie momentum with Samsung's silent retreat from the market, and the news that's emerged here in Cologne just hasn't been as impactful as in previous years.
It has not been smooth sailing for the International Tennis Federation (ITF) since it announced the radical revamp with some accusing the organization of selling the soul of a competition loved by tennis diehards, but which had slowly lost its luster.
Printed on unframed luster paper and pinned directly to the wall, Myles's photographs in poems at Bridget Donahue are taken from the writer's Instagram and don't feel precious at all, though there is something relentlessly intimate in their flat-footed irreverence.
But Netflix may lose its luster with distinguished filmmakers when it joins that elite and then is forced to make the same decisions that the major studios have been making for the past decade, sacrificing quality for the bottom line.
LONDON — Over the past 12 months, as the global luxury market gained momentum and recouped some of the luster it had lost over a rocky few years, much was made of blockbuster companies that made impressive recoveries or unveiled new strategies.
He occasionally deals in objects that hardly anyone knows how to fix, including 1960s inflatable PVC armchairs that can lose their luster when exposed to the bodies of people wearing sunscreen and that can develop holes along their folds when deflated.
Ford's Gucci was a sensation, its air of hedonism and hypersexuality in perfect sync with the prosperity and libido that defined Bill Clinton's presidency, but during the Giannini years, from 2005 through 2014, the label lost its mooring and its luster.
Instead of assembling a proper after-school snack, Lazy Mom indulges artistic impulses, taking close-ups of a smushed mustard packet or a pane of Wonder Bread immured in Ziploc, the light catching on plastic creases with a Vermeer-like luster.
Leading candidates include Pierce Bush, grandson of George H.W. Bush whose family name has lost luster in Trump's GOP, and Kathaleen Wall, a Republican donor who has used her own money to fund a message of loyalty to the president.
Ever since the teams took turns winning the American League Championship Series in 2003 and 2004 in gripping fashion, Yankees-Red Sox has generally been catnip to television networks — even as the rivalry has lost a little bit of its luster.
Michael Kors has been grappling with plummeting sales and tepid profits after a rapid expansion effort, amid declining North American mall traffic and deep discounting tactics that have resulted in the Kors label losing much of its luster with core consumers.
The news is a significant shake-up in the social media pecking order, and could signal that Snapchat has begun to lose its luster among the millennial users who for years have given the social media app a distinct cachet.
The party now has to find a way to restore its luster and rebuild its ranks in Washington while also fighting internal battles between its establishment and progressive wings that are still bruised from the primary fight between Clinton and Sen.
Privacy concerns are mounting as the luster of the Big Tech platforms, once praised as among the most dynamic parts of the U.S. economy, has faded because of data breaches and discomfort over what information is being collected and its use.
Earlier this fall, during a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Mark Zuckerberg addressed his flock with a common Silicon Valley lament: That the cradle of tech is losing its luster—"tapped," as he put it.
Myanmar's state counselor, Aung San Suu Kyi, once a global emblem of democracy and human rights, has lost her luster thanks to her inaction in the face of immense ethnic violence and widespread atrocities committed against the country's Muslim Rohingya population.
Despite a war on drugs that has killed thousands of people and graft-related scandals and resignations of his own appointees, Duterte has not lost his luster among Filipinos, who polls show back his morality-centered approach to law and order.
The look, trotted out in high gloss, demi-gloss and lipstick-tinted variations, lent unaccustomed luster to the coats, trousers and calf-clutching fetish boots in the collections of Hood by Air, Lacoste, Proenza Schouler and Calvin Klein, to name but a handful.
BEVERLY HILLS, April 30 (Reuters) - Europe, long a major destination of investor capital, is losing luster, say prominent bankers and asset managers, who are reducing exposure to the area because of concerns about issues ranging from Brexit to France's "yellow vest" protests.
" And while Snapchat has recently lost some of its luster (daily active user count fell by another 1 percent in its most recent quarter), Gupta said, "I think people are underestimating their whole strategy around entertainment, around being TV for the next generation.
The decision would also prove something of a fillip for IOC bosses, who are concerned the Games is losing its luster, with a pattern of cities pulling out of bidding for both summer and winter Games after baulking at huge costs required.
Yet to pull in younger consumers, paper napkin makers are taking on the trappings of a longtime enemy — the paper towel — and recruiting celebrities to restore their luster, all in the hope of sparing themselves from going the way of the plastic straw.
Brassner's experience trying to sell his 22015th-floor condominium in the building that is both President Donald Trump's gilded New York home and headquarters of his business empire is emblematic of how a high-rise that once defined luxury has lost its luster.
When shouting into Twitter, Facebook and the various comment fields around the 'net loses its luster, perhaps Binky is the perfect app after all: A no-cost, instant gratification, visually-enhanced habit-reinforcing fidget spinner for the social-media addicts among us.
While the posh getaway has all the glamor and pretty landscapes to justify the hefty costs, its luster has somewhat diminished in recent years: Reality TV crews are descending en masse upon the seaside enclave, and people are not happy about it.
That they were women in fields and cultures at the time utterly dominated by men only adds to the luster of their achievements; Rear Admiral Hopper and Hamilton are inspiring figures for anyone looking to enter the fields of computer science and engineering.
The novelty of being able to talk with an otherwise inanimate object loses its luster quickly when that conversation goes nowhere, as anyone who has struggled to pry more than just a basic Google search out of their phone's AI can tell you.
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A certain line of thought runs through many of those complaints about gay dating apps: The apps themselves have made hooking up so easy that they've created a dating scene all but defined by casual sex—one that's possibly losing its luster.
A slew of media stars — including the massively popular musician DJ Khaled, the boxer Floyd Mayweather and socialite Paris Hilton — have hitched their stars to various virtual currencies, lending their social media outreach and luster to projects that have seemed less than golden.
If the third parties want to regain their luster, nothing would help like running serious candidates who can actually put up a fight, especially in a day and age when rich candidates are increasingly throwing their hats in the ring for top offices.
LeBron James, heading into the 16th season of his career, was asked to bring the luster back to one of the N.B.A.'s two marquee franchises, and he readily accepted by agreeing to a four-year contract with the team on Sunday.
Mr. Ossendrijver was a survivor from a dream team assembled in Lanvin's post-millennium heyday when Alber Elbaz, as creative director of women's wear, brought luster — if not always relevance — back to a storied brand founded in Paris by Jeanne Lanvin in 1889.
Gold rose more than 3% at one point as it regained a bit of its flight to safety luster and the yield on U.S. Treasuries fell as emergency measures aimed at stabilizing financial markets briefly took hold after days of sharp volatility.
With Ms. Kim having seized the media spotlight as the first immediate member of the North's ruling family to set foot in South Korea, Ms. Trump's visit is expected to restore some luster to the American side of the unspoken propaganda contest.
The setting was the Wolseley, the Piccadilly institution that has lost little of its luster since the restaurateurs Chris Corbin and Jeremy King transformed what had been an auto showroom and later a chop suey joint into a high-style brasserie in 2003.
The blockchain has lost some of its luster as it has moved through the enterprise hype cycle in recent years, but if Kadena can succeed in building a fully decentralized, scalable blockchain, it could help push the technology deeper into the enterprise.
Just as "metal" was traded for "hard rock" during the grunge years, so "goth" lost its luster by the end of the 90s, when it became synonymous with sad overweight teenagers rocking gargoyle incense burners rather than, say, Peter Murphy's smoldering gaze.
Johnson had sealed a $154 million, four-year deal for James — two greats fulfilling their needs: Johnson to restore luster to a glamorous team; James to close out his career as a Laker and develop his business and entertainment interests centered on Hollywood.
Three works by Howard Kottler — the only non-living participant in the show — have a likewise playful feel, mashing up decals of the Mona Lisa on porcelain, luster-rimmed plates, with progressively convoluted titles that comment on the relationship between muse and artist.
The win comes despite numerous complaints from fans and critics that the show lost some of its luster during the its recent season, with plot developments that made little sense and dialogue that didn't feel as sharp without the Martin books as source material.
In various conversations recently, I have heard both Apple backers and detractors bemoaning the fact that Apple seems to be at a crossroads and, for the first time, I have heard both sides saying Apple needs to invent something new to get its luster back.
For C.D. Wright, her trips with Deborah Luster into the prisons they visited for One Big Self took on the moral weight of witness and the guilty responsibility of the one who is free to leave as she pleases at the end of a visit.
It is nice to look at (much nicer, certainly, than the real Britain), but what puts Morgan's saga in a class of its own is not the luster of its surfaces but the daring with which it lifts the curtain on the whole royal enterprise.
The I.O.C. encourages sports federations to include the best athletes in their competitions, and the prospect of Manny Pacquiao representing the Philippines or Wladimir Klitschko fighting for Ukraine would add star appeal to a sport that has lost some of its luster at the Olympics.
Although the "demography is destiny" argument lost much of its luster for national Democrats after the 2016 presidential election, in North Carolina, which experienced its political cataclysm a few years ahead of the rest of the country, the idea is once again in vogue.
In 2016, he led the star-crossed Cubs to their first World Series championship in 3003 years, making himself an instant Chicago civic icon and adding luster to his baseball legend by winning with the savvy of years, unorthodox strategies and unflagging good cheer.
From a distance, it is only possible to appreciate the luster of vases and their reflections in the water, and to follow sight lines from the pool to the center of the palace to the shimmering work of El Anatsui draped over the interior facade.
According to an affidavit for Fleming's arrest, a polygraph examiner who completed tests for Fleming and Luster in the 1980s told investigators last August that the two "were so deceptive" and that he believed they had killed the boy and dumped his body in Lake Mead.
According to Ames, the Word of Life Christian Church – where nine congregants allegedly kicked, whipped, and punched Lucas and his 17-year-old brother, Christopher, who survived the merciless, 12-hour blitz – had lost its luster, transforming from a place of worship to a house of torment.
"There was a hope on the part of Britain that this was going to be a special friendship…That relationship is clearly not going to have the luster that a lot of people have expected, " he told CNBC on the sidelines of the WEF meeting in China.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it was selling nearly $2K sweatshirts, or maybe it's because Gvasalia himself admitted he wouldn't pay for his own designs, but retailers who spoke to HighSnobiety (anonymously) said the brand has lost its luster with clientele.
Unlike a traditional oil, however, this dry version has no slick feeling or tendency to cross the line between shiny and greasy — and it plays especially well with hair that could use a little luster to help combat what might otherwise become a dry, powdery mess.
Though he'll only get 201613 of the state's delegates to Trump's 201603, the Texas senator's success in the day's final contest, which was a virtual dead heat for much of the night, added luster to his two triumphs in Oklahoma and his home state of Texas.
" On this release, perennial chameleons Cara Neir show off a tidy post-punk influence alongside the expected bursts of screamo, post-rock, and depressive black metal luster (bump "Ego Eats Man" to see what I mean") as well as more urgent moments of grind and technical flourishes.
Last of the private mansions to remain from a time when that particular stretch of Midtown, just north of St. Patrick's Cathedral, was a preferred address for New York's moneybag set, the Cartier store had lost its luster over the decades, as indeed had Fifth Avenue itself.
Although the revelations of the crimes of Stalinist totalitarianism diminished the luster of the Russian Revolution in the 400s, the surprising victory of the Communists in Cuba revived the revolutionary spirit in Latin America, inspiring guerrilla movements that alarmed military regimes allied to the United States.
As for the shows themselves, medical dramas have made a comeback, reboots and reality shows have lost some of their luster, a veteran producer has proved his mettle yet again and a new front in the late-night wars has opened between Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon.
But if some of the play's best qualities are muddied by performances that seem shaky and flat, "The Traveling Lady" still emerges as a lovely specimen of the form, in which hope and regret run neck and neck, and repression is honed to an oaken luster.
Now the group — which still sells about 100 million pieces of jewelry in more than 13 countries each year, making it the largest jewelry maker in the world by product volume — says it has a sparkling turnaround plan to regain some of the brand's lost luster.
The luster has dimmed on this Florida Keys dynasty seething with dysfunction: John has fled the scene of the crime; his younger brother, Kevin (Norbert Leo Butz), has committed his own atrocities; and their sister, Meg (Linda Cardellini), has come unhinged over the damage they have inflicted.
Factors like luster (being shiny and smooth rather though dull and rough) are important to collectors and makers who know what they're looking for, and the appearance of a shell can indicate not only the biological health of the sea, but even what island it came from.
"Fade" is one of those Kanye moments that often gets overlooked, and now that it's getting cold out, the song might lose a little bit of its hot-blooded luster—so do your best to bestow or receive one more good wine to it while you can.
"Instability is bad and all investors love Merkel, but one is reminded of when (former British Prime Minister Margaret) Thatcher became very beloved by foreigners and foreign investors and started losing luster back home," said Sassan Ghahramani, CEO of U.S.-based SGH Macro Advisors which advises hedge funds.
Once it's baked and assembled, the cake gets a rich chocolate coating on top and is then flecked with what the bakery says is food grade luster dust, which does remind us a smidge of the galaxy trend, but all of these sweet, magical fads are closely related, anyway.
I didn't say "peaceful" transfer of power, because that phrase is losing a little of its luster after the scenes of Thursday and Friday of mayhem, pre-planned violence, and hate spewed at the law-abiding citizens who made the journey to celebrate the inauguration of Donald Trump.
But she and other veterans said there's frustration that the President is quick to claim credit for successes and happy to bask in the reflection of the military's luster -- as when he floated the idea of a military parade in Washington -- but doesn't follow through on tough issues.
No." In an interview he noted the obvious — artists don't see a check from an auction sale unless they consigned the work — but he acknowledged that it adds luster to a career: "I think you'd be kind of naïve to think that it doesn't affect you in some way.
Though the Big East has been revived somewhat by the addition of distant schools with rich basketball pedigrees — Marquette, Butler and Xavier among them — the real draw will be the old, familiar rivals: Villanova, Georgetown, St. John's, Seton Hall and Providence, even if some have lost their luster.
Yet the artworks also contain beauty — as in the gray-black luster that coats "Charred Tulips" (all works are from 2018) — and inspire wonder, as at the edges of "Boarded Up Window, Brooklyn," where Ms. Hegarty has painstakingly blended an illusory derelict wall with the gallery's pristine one.
Now a company called Axiom Space is giving those with piles of money and an adventuresome spirit something new to lust after: the prospect of an eight-day trip to space that is plush, if not entirely comfortable, and with a bit of the luster of NASA as well.
One of the earliest ballpoint-pen pieces among the first group of drawings Way showed Castrucci years ago, it depicts an expansive blob covered with a maze of chemical-compound structures whose taped and inky surface brings to mind the milky luster of ancient, blue-and-white porcelain.
Watching the manufacturers prepare the individual powder pigments, mix them with essential oils, roll the resulting "dough" into the instantly recognizable shape, and top each one off with a whole lot of luster is almost as satisfying as seeing those pastel swirls transform your bath water into a bubbly dreamscape.
The shift to digital may also help the bank regain some of the luster it lost last year, after it was discovered Wells Fargo employees had created 2 million fake accounts to bolster their sales figures — a revelation that reportedly reduced the number of customers opening accounts with the bank.
Should the bill pass, Ryan, who was first forced to pull the bill in late March, will regain some luster for a speakership that had threatened to go down the same unprofitable path as his predecessor John Boehner -- who was driven to distraction by the recalcitrant conservatives in his caucus.
"I think that the way to restore the luster of the California dream is to give voice to more Californians, to focus on parts of the state that frankly have been left behind, that haven't had a voice," Villaraigosa said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Daily News.
Since then, the fireboat has been restored to its original luster at the North River Shipyard in Nyack, N.Y. A nonprofit foundation has been formed to preserve the boat as a living museum, and plans to bring it back to the city next summer for educational tours on the Hudson River.
That kiss, that embrace, suggested that in defeating Real Madrid — not just defeating, but stripping away its luster, cracking apart its identity, exposing all that is bare and empty beneath in a 3-0 thrashing — Tuchel feels Gueye, so unassuming as to be almost surreptitious, is starting to do just that.
As The Times reported in January, some saw race as a factor in the way Nate Parker's film, "The Birth of a Nation," lost its luster after the resurfacing of a case in which Mr. Parker was acquitted of charges that he raped a female student while at Penn State.
The U11 Plus loses some of the design luster of its predecessor — especially because it lacks the handsome "solar red" color; it will be available only in a so-called "ceramic black" (which isn't actually ceramic, naughty HTC for the misleading title) — but it gains a whole lot of desirable updates and improvements.
His record, in contrast to Hillary Clinton's as secretary of state in Obama's first term, has stemmed in part from the fact that he did not have a political future before him, so he may have been more willing to take on causes that risked damaging his professional luster if they failed.
Add to the play's luster one of two directors in Howard Davies, whose credits include the superlative 2014 National Theater production of another O'Casey title, "The Silver Tassie," and there was every reason to expect great things from this earlier play, which runs in the same theater's Lyttelton auditorium through Oct. 22.
Also in Dublin is the Irish Design Shop at 41 Drury Street, which features some of Ireland's hottest crafters including Rebecca Killen, who is known for her handmade ceramic milk bottles painted in white and cobalt with hints of gold luster that evoke the antique bottles she has collected over the years.
Graduates of such schools are hired by government archives, university research libraries and some big public systems with deep reserves like the New York Public Library, and by art shops that will bring your grandmother's tattered copy of "Great Expectations" back to luster at a price of $500 or more an hour.
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