Glazed hair and a face to match can also be viewed as an aesthetic corrective, a gauntlet in the face of slatternly, overheated starlet glamour trumpeted as chic in the pages of In Style, Us Weekly and other red-carpet magazines.
Two of the fingers on her left hand were encased in articulated silver sheaths that looked as if they'd been purloined from a gauntlet in the Met's Arms and Armor Court.
A Western diplomat said Mr. Fayyad had "thrown down a gauntlet in front of the security services," adding that this "puts the authority in a very difficult position because of Fayyad's international credibility".
By next week, the terms of Mr. Jacobs and six other commissioners will have expired, dropping a gauntlet in front of Governor McGreevey, who -- overwhelmed by concerns over a yawning budget deficit -- is months overdue in making new appointments.
From supermodel Kate Moss's sun-seared wrinkles "exposed" in Heat magazine, to footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's sculpted abdominals displayed like a gauntlet in the latest Armani underwear campaign, both women and men are informed that, while they may not have time, energy or organisation to change the world, it is beholden upon them to change themselves.
If candidates pass these first phases, Triplebyte will also fly potential hires out to West Coast and set them up with a gauntlet of in-person interviews with YC companies.
As early as 1961, Castro threw down the gauntlet in a famous speech to the island's intellectuals: Within the revolution, everything.
It's the latest throwing down of the gauntlet in a tit-for-tat war with other internet service providers, but also means BT has accelerated its basic connection speeds by nearly 400% in about six months.
He pretty much delivered Hollywood the gauntlet in a cardboard box with Seven, a razor-sharp horror thriller featuring Brad Pitt and a cat-and-mouse detective tale of biblical proportions.
But the O.J. series -- in a way, like "The Birth of a Nation" on the narrative side -- will throw down the gauntlet in a different way.
