Definition of "shimmer" [shim•mer]

• To shine with a subdued flickering light. See Synonyms at flash. (verb-intransitive)
• To appear as a wavering or flickering image, as in a reflection on water or through heat waves in air. (verb-intransitive)
• A flickering or tremulous light; a glimmer. (noun)

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• "This dreamy shimmer is a tension that both sustains the poem’s idealism and exposes the ideological bind of proffering poetry as the thing to be ‘done’ in political crisis"
• "As tiny, pretty mega-talent Cher Lloyd stepped on to the X Factor stage last month in shimmer foundation, squashed-spider eyelashes and over-pruned brows, only for Louis Walsh to trill, You're 16?"
• "They call it a "shimmer" - a glint, a glitter, a glisten."