It consists of abutting panels of blue and red acrylic applied in an almost burnished density that recalls encaustic. |
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Debussy's impressionistically languid Premier Rhapsodie was filled with warm, burnished tonal sheen and fetching sounds. |
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During the autumn, the foliage of tricolour sage and ajuga becomes burnished with bronze, plum, and garnet. |
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The box was fashioned of antique burnished rosewood, with brass cylinders and myriad bells all working in perfectly refined unison. |
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The cool elegance of the shapes, such as stemmed goblets, is matched by the smooth silvery-grey burnished surfaces. |
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I could not relate the time now but my original gold case and lettering regained its lustre from being burnished on a sweetly scented sleeve. |
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His hallmark full, burnished tone and his strong technique have developed into something masterly. |
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It is well burnished only on the exterior body, which is decorated with a series of engraved ticked circles and semicircles. |
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It was an impressive sight, gleaming with the burnished sheen of beaten bronze and flashing green marble. |
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There also are burnished metallics and grass cloths in boldly scaled weaves. |
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Those strange, topaz eyes from which a core of burnished steel looked out upon the world. |
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Many of the coppery-colored tumbaga castings were then gilded and burnished to restore their golden appearance. |
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The enormous burnished pipes of the organ, lit from below, rose like architecture behind the musicians. |
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Poussin perpetuates the convention, which goes back as far as the Pompeian frescoes, of burnished umber men and pearly women. |
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He was of no more than middle years, though snow-white streaks shone like burnished silver in his thick brown hair and neatly trimmed beard. |
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Verdana concealed a smile, and crashed her mailed fist on the burnished breastplate of her armour. |
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His darkly burnished sound in the Andante sostenuto was all warmth and violinistic molten lava. |
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His armor, once immaculately burnished gold, was now tarnished and dented in a dozen locations. |
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Typically pierced handles and covers were decorated with different shades of matte or burnished gold, or with bronze luster. |
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The inside of the elevator had burnished steel paneling, and the buttons were made of plastic. |
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The narrow and steep stone steps in the pagoda have been burnished and made very smooth. |
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The motifs lie upon luminous fields of pale color that shift between shades of rose and burnished gold. |
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It was burnished silver, and the eyes of the dragon were indeed tiny emeralds, and the dragon's teeth were made of ivory. |
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The graphite is readily removed during polishing and in this case the cavities can be either burnished over or enlarged. |
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Sunlight tracked a path of sparkling white highlights toward the skyline, a light as harsh as if it were reflecting off burnished metal. |
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On shelves and bookcases around the flat I could see antique spanners, old sextants, shiny brass things, burnished steel telescopes. |
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Water gilding allows the object to be burnished to achieve a polished, shining surface. |
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When dry, the gold is burnished with a hooked or rounded tool called a burnisher. |
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Their armor was burnished bright red, and black capes swung over the shoulders and flapped in the light breeze. |
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The telltale blue of their family eyes was gone, and in its place was a deep burnished gold. |
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Her rust red hair fell in a cascade of ringlets that were burnished gold by the kiss of the sun. |
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It not only burnished the family image but was also his one surpassing business triumph. |
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He burnished his credentials as a man of the people by taking the Tube to the Olympic Park. |
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You can look at the burnished copper coffee machine that roasts and grinds the coffee beans. |
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In ordinary kitchens of all periods, cooking pots were made of unglazed Nile clay, sometimes with a burnished slip coating. |
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The artist's palette encompasses earthy, weather worn colours, rich burnished crimsons and flashes of red. |
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This vessel also has an evened rim and a rounded lip, and is burnished on both interior and exterior surfaces. |
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Mirrors reflect burnished silver candelabras, enhancing the pleasure of jaded diners who've tasted it all. |
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After the plane arrives, we fly over the watery green plain, skimming above rivers of burnished silver and snowy flocks of tundra swan. |
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The sky in the east gleams like burnished brass gilding the wavelets on Phoenix Bay. |
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Her body, carved and faceted with all of the concentrated vigor of an Expressionist woodcut and burnished a brick red, gives way to a thick plait of wiry gray hair. |
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The book, it seems, has burnished Howe's reputation brighter than ever. |
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Gowns in black, burnished orange, cognac and pale pink easily communicate the rock princess vibe, especially when combined with silk taffeta, velvets and plush taffetas. |
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The first section can be a bit slow and plodding but once the book gathers steam the second and third sections shine like well burnished steel rails. |
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The beauty of this pottery and the variety of uses to which it is put are amply shown in the displays, which include the burnished royal pottery of the Ganda. |
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As long as people have a good time, as long as the community is burnished with an extra polishing of fellow feeling, an event is successful, right? |
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If Islay's signature metal is the burnished copper of whisky stills, it gave place last weekend to the brassy sheen or sandblasted seriousness of the saxophone. |
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This year's object of desire is a foot-long black leather carpet bag with worked wooden handles or a hand-held bucket bag with burnished bronze studs. |
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She has a vision of her cattery, its concrete floors burnished like metal. |
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His technique was mezzotint, the hybrid drypoint technique in which a texture is applied to a prepared etching plate, and the image is painstakingly burnished in. |
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By lucky chance, a shaft of sunlight coming though the high stained glass windows struck Tom's burnished medals full on and then reflected them back into the chairman's face. |
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In northern European paintings matt, unburnished gilding is also found and contracts may specify which areas are to be burnished and which are to be matt. |
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But if Reagan burnished the anti-intellectual brand, Bush has now wrecked it. |
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We can never know how much of this was innate in him, or how much of was shaped and burnished in a dark, solitary cell. |
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There was a once-grand dining room with mirrored walls and burnished chandeliers. |
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He has a well schooled voice with easily reached, burnished low tones. |
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From the ground and first floors of the lobby, its existence is indicated by a bulging wall of burnished wood, like the body of a stringed instrument. |
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Carefully unwrapping it, she found the hint of dull gold and burnished it on her shirt, the small ruby at the end of the key twinkling in the yellow sunlight. |
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The inside of the pot could also be burnished with a smooth pebble or bone to smear the clay particles over each other producing a more watertight vessel. |
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In her hand she held a single leaf, burnished gold by the autumnal winds. |
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The new gold was burnished before the lattice pattern was inscribed and the punching executed using tools specially made to imitate the original ones. |
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There's usually a line out the door, but once inside you're greeted warmly by one of Aroma's attractive counter-jumpers over the brightly burnished copper counter. |
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They have thought constantly about each other, but will the real person live up to the idealized image that was burnished into their minds for ten years? |
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But if the threats and saber-rattling are going to be effective, Chamillionaire has to take his burnished, easy flow and start putting some specifics in it. |
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Opera star Tozzi sings with the richness of burnished bronze and Daniels complements him with her pellucid soprano. |
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Instead the material is perfectly executed punkadelic glam-bop burnished with a healthy dose of metallic insolence. |
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Within the next millennium, wares were decorated with elaborate painted designs and natural forms, incising and burnished. |
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For the wealthy, this band was often a thin and flexible band of burnished gold, silver or findruine. |
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Perhaps Scotland's image abroad has been burnished by the sight of the world's most powerful men gathering to chew the fat. |
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As a kid, you'd admired pictures of knights in burnished suits of armor. |
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Prior to firing, some surfaces are burnished using various levigated slips. |
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Kohlhase stayed on alto for an inspired reading of the piece, which also featured a beautifully burnished fluegelhorn solo from Sabatini. |
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On it stood a silver tray of smokables and a burnished spirit-stand, from which and an adjacent siphon my silent host proceeded to charge two high glasses. |
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A drifting cloud of dust was transformed into a glowing mist of burnished copper, with the shadows of the ancient eucalyptus trees casting deep valleys of burnt umber. |
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Levinas seems to be offering new words or newly burnished words for old, those apparent semantic neologisms are more like pre-semantic paleologisms. |
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