Peter had studied the photographs that had been assembled from a dozen sources, but even the glossy coloured portraits from Vogue and Jours de France had not been able to capture the magnificence of the woman.

The film received mixed reviews 54% of reviews on rottentomatoes.com being positive, the consensus being, "a glossy yet unflinching portrait of violent, hedonistic teenagers.

This show features glossy, cartoon portraits of androgynous young action heroes and a near mural-size painting crammed with every "Final Fantasy" character.

The actor signed 13 glossy portraits of himself, posing as Tony Soprano, before closing the door.

The New Yorker , June 21 and 28 fin de siècle fiction issue prints stories by the country's "twenty best young fiction writers" as well as glossy portraits of them.

But in much the way a cartoonist can stretch a president's nose to make him look shifty, political pugilists can stretch and shape a telling statistic to skewer a victim or airbrush a glossy portrait.

Trophies of the voyage - glossy oversized portraits of an ostrich and a South African family - hang on the walls.

More recent paintings, like the giant head of a blond girl with smeared-out eyes and a glossy portrait of the German painter Albert Oehlen, are less stirring.

Inside the theater are big glossy portraits of him and his wife in their early days, with guns and sunglasses.

Mothers urged sons to stand close to the microphone, and singers dusted off glossy portraits just in case.