The gilding looked soft enough to eat with a spoon.
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But the fashion industry is never shy of gilding the lily.
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At this point, adding anything else would be gilding the lily.
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Gilding is a topical application of precious metal to an object.
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Fire gilding, specifically, is now rarely used except in museum-piece restorations.
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We are gilding lilies to the point that they resemble bloated, glitzy hippopotami.
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They will correctly note that his talk of restoring hope was mere gilding.
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Between them clouds of white play deceptively intricate games with streaks of unpainted gilding.
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"We're not just gilding the lily, we're not just making small improvements," Szeliski said.
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And John's friends remember him fire gilding for most of his remaining 49 years.
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The attack on Skye (Drew Olivia Tillman) outside the community center was gilding the lily.
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The Australian environmentalist Paul Gilding has said that climate change means the end of shopping.
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Yet both the mandala and the sidewalk gilding are ephemeral acts of engaging with eternity.
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To make a cupcake without any gilding, drizzling or sugary swirling on top takes guts.
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The restoration of monuments is going on with traditional craft skills like wood-carving and gilding.
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For such a decorated player, a second Super Bowl ring just might be gilding the lily.
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This corn recipe is all about gilding the lily, but in the very best possible way.
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Months after Gilding and Randers published "The One Degree War Plan," climate negotiators faced the crushing
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The carvers dabbed gilding on the honey-colored wood, and made some of the components movable.
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To the left of Ayatollah Khomeini stood a twinkling Christmas tree, a gold star gilding its tip.
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Last June, the administration added still more sanctions against Iran, but even those were gilding the lily.
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The house has detailing, like 22-karat gold leaf gilding, inspired by the Palace of Versailles in France.
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Some have taken gilding goodies to the next level, elevating more humble foods with a big of glitz.
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She depicts those gates, for example, in the painstaking style of Persian gilding and illumination (known as tazhib).
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The house music went on and we filed through the theatre gilding to take selfies with the marquee.
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As with carroting, a person practicing fire gilding (without proper safety equipment) could inhale those toxic mercury fumes.
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Plus, John admitted to friends he thought he was having health problems due to fire gilding or chemicals.
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With marble pillars, gold gilding, and a crystal chandelier, the entryway is a nod to its Roaring '20s origins.
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But, given all the flavor-gilding browning before the ingredients go in the pot, I prefer the sheet pan.
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Mr. Vo made an early splash by gilding castoff cardboard boxes used for shipping beer, cereal or condensed milk.
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And even here, 10 episodes deep into the show's 10-episode run, those filmmakers are gilding the cruelty lily.
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"I hope we find that there won't be anything that went wrong in our little county," Ms. Gilding said.
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It was gilding the lily when she lightened her hair with Sun In and doused herself in Jean Naté.
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The ceiling light was made from conventional fixtures supported by welded brackets and refinished with gilding and found quartz crystals.
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Whenever that kind of disaster does happen, it's treated with an astonishing compassion, gilding the show in warmth and humility.
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Still, in spite of the gilding, this ingenious take on colonialism and cultural appropriation is wildly inventive and widely representative.
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But it also means to coat scrap metal with a layer of zinc; it's the poor man's version of gilding.
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All this gilding suggests an emerging form, wavering on the edge between ancient alchemy and ultra-technology, the fetishistic and futuristic.
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None of us would want to live in the howling wilderness of his own solitude, no matter how thick the gilding.
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In all cases, the gilding of silver or bronze is done with gold, which creates a thin-skinned but luxurious radiance.
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Inside, its Baroque details — ornate gold-leaf gilding and Rococo painted tiles — are transportive, delivering one to a much older Brazil.
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Spires, turrets, baroque gilding, classical pediments, neo-imperial this and that, appeared all over town, sometimes all on the same building.
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Ms. Spannan, 47, has done private interiors for Anderson Cooper and Tom Hanks and gilding work for Balthazar and the Ace Hotel.
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John often finished restoring clocks (like the one pictured below) with a process called fire gilding, which embellishes clocks with gold decoration.
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He had experimented with inks, and came up with a compound that gave enough of an appearance of gilding to do the trick.
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The political gilding of the project (originally known in English as "One Belt, One Road") may lead to blind spots in decision-making.
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In fire gilding, gold is melted into mercury, the mixture is brushed onto a surface, and then the mercury is evaporated with heat.
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But Reed makes a strong case that mercury poisoning from fire gilding could have contributed to John's neurological symptoms, and his physical ones.
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Rather than devoting their funds to traveling, buying second homes and otherwise further gilding their golden years, he says, retirees tend to be frugal.
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Materials in the 20153-foot-tall sculpture include polished and patinated bronze, 24-karat gold gilding, silver leaf, Swarovski crystals, paint and handblown glass.
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EverGreene executed the gilding on the president-elect's latest project, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, in particular its 212,21813-square-foot presidential ballroom.
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They have always drawn power in part from the promise of women's solidarity and sisterly closeness, often gilding their girl power with a sexualized edge.
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EAST WILLISTON "Gilding the Coasts: Art and Design of Long Island's Great Estates," a lecture with Joshua Ruff from the Nassau County Historical Society. Feb.
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Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding; yet for the poor we delight in stripping it still barer.
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Had I not seen in Mandalay the Mahamuni Buddha, taken from Rakhine as a spoil of war, and now an object of Pagoda-gilding veneration?
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I don't know if you've ever heard the phrase "gilding the lily" but sweet mother of sweating saccharine glucose attacks, what the hell is going on?
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It involves depleting silver with several applications of acid, until the silver has a snow-white finish, and then gilding it with 24-karat gold foil.
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The original's incredible concoction of frescoes, marble, alabaster and gilding was exquisitely represented in the model, the centerpiece of which, of course, was the magnificent staircase.
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But eventually solar cells on a larger gilding aircraft's massive wings could provide all the power it needs, as could wind-powered generators incorporated into its fuselage.
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Reflecting the period's growing love of all things Classical, and heavy with gilding, rare marbles and semiprecious stones, this exhibition ranges from secular to religious to spectacular.
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Electroplating — using an electric current to adhere the gold to the object — appeared in the 19th century, largely replacing fire gilding, whose mercury fumes are highly toxic.
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As with all Gouthière's figures, she benefits from his adaptation of the matte gilding process to bronze — enabling many new subtleties, including the illusion of soft skin.
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Some of the most lavish work, including the gilding, was performed by Atelier Mériguet-Carrère, which restored the Élysée Palace and the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris.
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Today, lavish gilding is often considered tacky, or an attribute of the so-called "dictator chic" aesthetic, yet it shares the same intention of these 18th-century crafts.
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"The fundamental issue is one of trust between nations in cyberspace," writes Simeon Gilding, until recently the head of the Australian Signals Directorate's signals intelligence and offensive cyber missions.
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The ancient Egyptians did not worship entire species — not even their splendid cats, whose mummies, well represented in the exhibition, sometimes appear in casings bearing traces of their original gilding.
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After updating kitchens, gilding bathrooms, finishing basements and lavishing money on landscaping and every other corner of their homesteads, they have targeted the garage as the next frontier in remodeling.
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The team consulted with "experts on early 19th century French upholstery and gilding" and drew from receipts from the original 1817 purchase, the White House said in a news release.
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So both sides have tried to fill in the blanks, and figure out what kind of man would be revealed under all that gilding if he were elected to the presidency.
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Their decoration is sometimes praised (the altar of the Greek Chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is "gorgeous with gilding and pictures"), but more often condemned for its flamboyance.
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A cheap substitute for gold and silver gilding, the tin foil is meant to evoke the blinding light of the divine that symbolically designates traditional icons as repositories of God's word.
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Dyson engineers were then taught these traditional hand-gilding techniques so that they can pass the product onto you, the consumer willing to pay $500 for a hair dryer, as is tradition.
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Image courtesy of the artist While making these, Callanan learned techniques that date back to Victorian signage, like inverted relief text, gilding, wrought iron design, swing sign design, and manufacturing and lettering rules.
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He is often credited with creating the "country house" style of decorating, in which deliberately faded gilding and textiles in muted hues create the illusion that a room has been maintained for centuries.
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The text's early pages are replete with gilding, floral motifs and other Gothic Christian staples, while later pages exhibit the tightly woven geometric patterns that are one of the hallmarks of Islamic aesthetics.
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During the campaign, Ms. McFarland came under scrutiny for gilding her résumé — claiming, for example, that she had been the highest-ranking woman in the Pentagon when, in fact, two other women outranked her.
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Mr. McLemore practiced the ancient method of fire gilding, in which mercury and gold are heated to an extreme temperature, causing the gold to transfer onto an object — in his case, mostly antique clocks.
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When Steve Martin and Chris Rock came out near the top of the show to offer five minutes of comedy, it felt like gilding the lily after Janelle Monáe's entertaining but odd opening musical number.
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Throughout high school, textbooks for geography, history, and French were regularly set aside for books like Ornamental Pen Designs and Flourishes, Setting Up Your Chicken Coop, and The Art of Water-Gilding: A Practical Manual.
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If we are a nation that wants to put its elderly, its sick and its disabled on the street, while gilding its corporate class and shouting down the rest of the world, we are truly bankrupt.
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They say they want Huffman to step down and want to leave Reddit, yet more than 100 users donated "Reddit Gold" to Trump, which costs $3.99 per "gilding" and is used to keep Reddit's servers online.
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Wealthy builder Robert Pereira II's project manager hired Atelier Premiere, which specializes in high-end painting, in June 2015 to do gold-leaf gilding and faux-marble work at his Millionaires' Mile estate in Broward County, Fla.
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During his AMA on Wednesday evening, Donald Trump was gifted hundreds and hundreds of dollars of useless Reddit gold, also known as gilding, presumably as token of alt-right redditors' appreciation for the massive-handed Republican nominee.
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Mary Gilding, a volunteer for the Stein campaign who was there to oversee the recount, said that she did not "have a dog in this fight," but merely wanted to ensure that the election results were accurate.
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Our charming server talked us into gilding the lily with the flan: It arrived in a stemmed glass, dressed up like a sundae, with a surfeit of dulce de leche, whipped cream and a maraschino cherry on top.
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In a remarkably candid interview with The Huffington Post a few years ago, James C. Garland, who oversaw an expensive gilding of Miami University in Ohio when he was its president from 1996 to 2006, conceded precisely that.
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It's hard to look at someone as self-consciously over-the-top as Donald Trump — a man whose persona is associated with excessive gilding and pink marble — and not assume that there's a different person behind the mask.
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When Abbe arrived there, several decades later, he started poking around the depots and was astonished to find that many statues had flecks of color: red pigment on lips, black pigment on coils of hair, mirrorlike gilding on limbs.
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Mr. Dilan's campaign has cast such inconsistencies as fabrication, though Ms. Salazar's supporters say her version of events may be the result of semantics, campaign staff mistakes or gilding the lily — or even Rashomon-like recollections — rather than outright lies.
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In Gouthière's workshop, gilt was applied with fire gilding, a process by which an amalgam of mercury and gold was gently baked onto an object in a low fire, the mercury evaporating and the gold remaining as a coating of gilt.
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Eric Thiriet, who specializes in finishing techniques, and Marc Voisot, a restorer who works with fire gilding, huddled head-to-head before a golden column and capital at the entrance to the exhibition, whispering in low conspiracy about its detail.
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A collaborative project produced with LA-based artist Cassils, Haq is seen gilding an ice sculpture of the Buraq, the mythical creature — part woman, part horse — described in the Qur'an as transporting the Prophet Muhammed between terrestrial and heavenly planes.
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At lunchtime, Goldman guys share seafood platters in a dining room with Art Nouveau gilding; at cocktail hour, they are joined by tourists from the nearby 9/11 Memorial, who relax on teal furniture outside, in view of the Hudson.
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So even if it was likely not a curatorial intent, the examination of Gouthière's gilding at a moment when the President of the United States is a man with his own 18th-century French decorative arts obsession, is particularly relevant.
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"We remain cognisant of the continued uncertain macroeconomic and political outlook, however we believe that as a combined business we are well placed to continue to deliver on our strategy and generate attractive shareholder returns through the cycle," OneSavings Chief Executive Andy Gilding said.
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Every day, armies of experts are fanning out to period rooms and homes, to stabilize delicate ebony and tortoiseshell inlays and flecks of gilding on furniture made before World War II. The profusions of modern plastics, however, have created repair challenges unlike any known before.
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Hung in frames, displayed on shelves, or arranged in domestic-scaled installations, Ms. Mack's new work quietly exudes the motley variety of a craft show crossed with a fair exhibition hall in its mix of stained glass, gilding, silk flowers, neon lights and lots of denim.
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If we engage in Times-style gilding of every lily the leakers throw our way, and in doing so build up a fever of expectations for a bombshell reveal, but there turns out to be no conspiracy—Trump will be pre-inoculated against all criticism for the foreseeable future.
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But moment by moment, the animation is stunning: Take a look particularly at the scene in which the fairies perform "the gilding of the leaves" to usher in the fall, and the way plumes of golden light trail out behind them, illuminating the rich and endless twilight all around.
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So that certainly became the framework, and any embellishments that came after that was just me sort of roving the universe and mining, in a cannibalistic way, any snippet that sort of felt true to this and adding it, and gilding the lily in repeated edits and rewrites.
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New Day for America, the super PAC backing John Kasich Reach: Aired in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Michigan as part of a six-figure ad buy Impact: By showing Marco Rubio gilding backward and fading from the screen, this ad subtly underscores the idea that the Florida senator is somehow insubstantial.
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Italian design was also largely reverent and free of aggressive palettes and busy patterns through the centuries, focusing instead on keeping alive the Classical period of gilding, pale plaster and colors only as bright as veined marble would allow (at least until the Crayola shades of the 1980s-era Memphis Group).
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Given the ascension of Donald Trump, with his suit and big red tie uniform (with its nod to Gordon Gekko and Ronald Reagan) and his unabashed love of gilding not just the lily, but every surface under the sun, the better to convey aesthetic bombast: big hair, big gems, big belts. Bigly!
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As deeply as Reed has chosen to engage with a broad range of subjects in this podcast, from methods of clock gilding to the way a sundial works to John's love life, his choice to put John's fetish on the record with so little contextualization feels irresponsible and out of sync with the rest of the podcast.
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The era's religious faith is especially palpable in two carved softwood sculptures from the 14th century whose colors and gilding remain nearly intact: a pale, life-size Spanish crucifix that is both daunting and slightly comic and a polychrome wood Pietà with anguished expressions and with gaping wounds whose red matches that of the Virgin's robes.
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Among the most transfixing objects are two sets of rare zodiacal boards likely used by a traveling astrologer in the 2nd century CE. Made of ivory, wood, and gilding, the small boards were found in the 1960s at the bottom of a well in France, seemingly destroyed on purpose, perhaps because of their pagan imagery in the Late Antique era.
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At all events, it seems to be a historic law that the greater portion of truths in the theory of nature first appear as purple mirages —ruddy and auroral streaks gilding the matin of man's mind ; but the appointed time- duly brings up the perfect thought, fraught with the wealth of invisible climee, and Hooding the age with the sunlight of science.
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"It's gilding a toothpick," said the artist April Gornik, who with her husband, the painter Eric Fischl, lives just outside the village of Sag Harbor, where in tidy yards gracing multimillion-dollar houses along Main or Madison or Henry Streets, magnolia trees, topiary boxwoods and sentinel rows of arborvitae have been stitched up in dun overcoats they'll wear until spring.
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In a further sign that the Trump administration feels the lily of strong economic growth needs gilding, Hassett released a report last week recalculating after-tax wage growth to 1.4 percent over the past year; according to the standard measure used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, average wage gains have during the past year run about even with inflation.
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" Below, a video from the Frick offers a technical explanation of the bronze chasing and gilding process of this doorknob: The large-scale oil on canvas panels by Jean-Honoré Fragonard that are a permanent installation at the Frick were also created for this now dismantled pavilion, although Du Barry reportedly did not care for his depictions of "The Progress of Love.
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A ruling in Hernández v Mesa may come by the end of June, but if the justices are split 4-4 (a vote that would leave the Fifth Circuit ruling in place without gilding it with precedential value), they could call for a new hearing once Neil Gorsuch, Mr Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, takes his seat, as he is likely to do this spring.
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He taught himself gilding, egg tempera, sharkskin/shagreen, eggshell mosaic and marquetry in the style of European designers such as Jean Michel Frank (1895-1941) and Jean Dunand (1877-1942); metalworking and other techniques from the studios of the Bugatti dynasty (Rembrandt, Carlo, Ettore, and Jean); carving of ivory and wood, and painting in the style of illuminated manuscripts and Indian miniatures that he studied closely at the Metropolitan Museum.
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But interviews with top advisers and confidants from then and now help explain how Mr. Biden came to see himself as presidential material in the first place, and suggest that the central tensions and vulnerabilities laid bare during Biden '19883 remain the most urgent questions at the core of Biden 21988: Can he credibly present himself as a man in step with the times without sounding off-key or stretching the truth, as he did while gilding his 217s-era biography?
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