They simply aren't up to that level of shimmering beauty required so it becomes a bit of a plod.

The great craft was a thing of beauty shimmering in the bright sunlight.

Locked deep within the earth were caverns of such delicate, shimmering beauty that, to step out into them, was a joy beyond all measuring.

And she found herself petrified again, staring at him, at the smooth shimmering beauty of his face.

The past week with its shimmering, dreamlike beauty, its crowded hours of happiness, was gone.

Oh, of shimmering beauty the cavern had its share, but so does the web of a spider.

Despite the battles she had waged and lost in life, she was still fighting, a golden girl, a glittering, shimmering beauty.

"Of what purpose is the shimmering beauty and form of a hummingbird?"

The best of Donald Barthelme's stories have an exquisite, shimmering beauty.

Suddenly there was white light and the shimmering beauty of unity.