"There's not a surface in this house that hasn't been redone," Mr. Cusack said.
The reward was a surface in pristine condition, even if the players did not trust it enough to place subtlety above more rudimentary methods.
The best known patents cover soft lithography, Professor Whitesides's method of depositing extremely thin layers of material onto a surface in carefully controlled patterns.
How acrylic can be thinned to soak into canvas and mimic the blue translucence of water, or how it can be brushed onto a surface in undulating cream-and-gray strokes to convey the plushness of a shag rug underfoot.
He glimpses a reflection of himself wielding his belt and suddenly he feels a sadness 'produced when the mirroring world no longer offers a surface in which one may recognise one's true likeness'.
The bar at Café Gray is soft-shouldered stainless steel, like a surface in a kitchen in an expensive suburban home, which puts you at ease and straightens your spine for a night out at the same time.
Miss Klinger, whose own complexion was a pampered milky white, began by treating the skin as a tender, living organ, not a surface in need of decoration, an approach that revolutionized cosmetic skin care.
I took thousands of images of it, and I have come to see it as the ultimate metaphor, a mirror for our rights and wrongs, a surface in which we see ourselves".
It was his first win over the Spaniard on clay in five attempts and confirmed his improvement on a surface in which he has won 15 matches in a row, as well as his first two titles.
Granulation, in jewelry, type of decoration in which minute grains or tiny balls of gold are applied to a surface in geometric or linear patterns or massed to fill in parts of a decoration.
The researchers worked with sodium beta-alumina in its liquid form, which enabled them to spread it easily onto a surface in precisely the pattern required for a printed circuit.
