Sentence examples for filigree in from inspiring English sources
By the 5th century bc, granulation had been largely replaced by filigree in Greek work.
Just listen to the arching melodic lines and flourishes of filigree in Glinka's operas.
He rebuilt the rotted front porch, restoring some of the Victorian filigree in the process, and reshingled the front facade.
The architect Cass Gilbert's combination of forceful vertical thrust and aerie filigree, in shimmering terra cotta, is indeed masterful.
Mr. Ohlsson's clear articulation elegantly highlighted the Lisztian filigree in the "Transcendental" Étude No. 5, "Feux Follets" ("Will-o'-the-Wisps").
But other, more recreational watchers — this one, for example — tend to be skeptical, peering at the complexity and filigree in a bemused haze.
Utilization of these slim composite beams enables to achieve an effective solution also in combination with filigree or in-situ cast concrete decks.
Twenty-foot ceilings filigreed in silver over a sage ground cap a multilevel dining room.
SOMEWHERE, Christmas will look like this: cheerful children opening presents that don't break by noon; a glazed ham taking pride of place on the heirloom cherrywood sideboard as the heady aroma of gingerbread wafts through the house, which is itself set upon snow-covered hills where the leafy pine boughs are filigreed in ice.
Whereas in "By Night in Chile" Bolaño's dissection of hypocrisy and bad faith (the main character is a morally bankrupt priest allied with the junta) is swift and merciless, here it is not only as if the writer in him couldn't keep himself from filigreeing in endless perfect and revealing details about his lost souls and their laughable oeuvres, but also as if he couldn't entirely resist them.
Across the glass lobby door, filigreed in curling Roman script, was the list of companies his family controlled: "Lohia Cement," "Lohia Sugar Mills," "Lohia Shipping," "Lohia Tea," "Lohia Insurance," "Lohia Coal," "Lohia Steel & Iron Works," and the ill-starred recent entrant, Lohia Motors".
