“With industries closing and population falling, the economic and demographic realities of the north-west are not shiningly positive.”

“Nearby, hucksters sell postcards of the skyline, in which the towers remain shiningly intact.”

“And, shiningly, there is Sophie, a talented gymnast and a troubled, spiky, sweet girl, nearly wrecked by the adults in her life.”

“Why is it that the more shinily realistic graphics get, the worse the people in the games look?”

“It's about the size of four phone boxes knocked through, but it's very new, and shinily neat and bright.”

“Its stainless-steel panels perforated by a grid of numerous small holes are either shinily opaque or surprisingly transparent, depending on your angle of view.”