The hand of history that occasionally grips the Prime Minister's shoulder disturbs a countenance effusive with passion, belief and vision, and knocks askance a golden gloriole of goodness.
He is, as he so loves to be, correct - but not in any sense which would make his golden gloriole radiate with greater magnificence.
In fact, isn't the irony of this that the cult of life is elevating its gloriole in a society whose cultural output makes a fetish of death?
In June 1963 he hit twenty at the top of his gloriole, and with a river of money billowing in, allowing him to buy a spread outside Paris.
Origin
Mid 19th century: French, from Latin gloriola, diminutive of gloria 'glory'.