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Bashfully, shamefacedly, miserably, these parents now mumble the names of the glamourless institutions their progeny are skulking off to.

Dave Lamb and his glamourless assistant, Rattus Rattus host a brand new game show.

Skilful while professional; flashy, yet substantial; good-humoured, but focused, always willing to give 100% to a perpetually glamourless cause: Jay-Jay, you're always welcome back here.

"A Life's Work" briskly does away with any frilly illusions about the joys of motherhood even as it depicts this glamourless burden as the definitive joy; that's the book's triumph.

Kaufman could work at home or late in hotel rooms under pressure and do the hard labor, the tedious, glamourless structuring and rewriting and merciless cutting that is crucial to making comedy breathe.

It is this ancient wisdom that McGill and his colleagues are reflecting, no doubt unconsciously, when they allow for no transition stage between the honeymoon couple and those glamourless figures, Mum and Dad.

Worse, judging by his plot summary, he seems to have taken it rather personally: you can tell from the way he describes the three central characters as "manoeuvring to escape the glamourless purgatory (the horror!)

The China Clipper was a graceful seabird that looked right at home bobbing in a South Sea lagoon; the Stratocruiser was a glamourless flying boxcar on the outside, wall to wall luxury inside.

I refuse to talk about the special, inevitable protesting-too-much nature of being a Cleveland native and the defensive posture you must always assume every time anyone (everyone) chuckles over the city's burning river, its feckless politicians, its glamourless character, its jinxes, its curses.

The television writer and performer Billy Kimball, who spent summers on the North Fork as a child and keeps a full-time residence in Cutchogue, took a more jaundiced view of the rumors of the demise of the North Fork's glamourless bucolic charm.

"I turn, finally, to the recent criticism which has been raised as to the quality of the leadership. . . . Of late, Mr. President, the descriptions of the majority leader, of the Senator from Montana, have ranged from a benign Mr. Chips, to glamourless, to tragic mistake.