glory = 'awesome horror'

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe there needs to be a special def. of "in all (one's) glory" : 'at
> one's most impressive.'

I agree. "In all (one's) glory" has been used ironically,
sarcastically, and hyperbolically for dekkids.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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