After decades of inflation, slow growth and stagnant wages, the story goes, a restructured United States economy is poised for a glorious burst of sustained, 60's-style growth without inflation.

He meets the promise of that shirt much more than halfway in a performance that is at times poignant but more often a glorious burst of antic hamminess.

Spirit must shed flesh, soul must rid itself of body, the human elan must strive to transcend its own physical constraints and seek to "flame out" in a glorious burst of transcendence.

To the west, the sun was setting in a glorious burst of golds and reds that spilled across the horizon.

He now faced the agonizing choice of seeking solace a few drops at a time and remaining depressingly sober, or splurging the lot on one glorious burst of oblivion.

Then comes a glorious burst into harmony-the original runs glow like prisms, assume stature, gradually topple together into a miraculous pyramid of sound.

Why should I limp along piecemeal, when I can accomplish my purpose in one glorious burst?

She felt him erupt, the final hard drive of him into her, and the glorious burst of heat.

The hint of outdoor light in the picture's foreground turns, at the far end of the corridor, into a glorious burst of gold.

Then came that last glorious burst when, lifted up to heaven, the two lovers, forgiven, purged, chanted their triumph to the stars, and, by slow degrees, the music throbbed itself to silence.