But there was a glazed quality to the conversation, in the sense of trance-like and mechanical, but also "glazed" like a ceramic film forming an invisible barrier.
"This was his favorite restaurant!" If Albert's life until now has been one endless meal, it takes just one bite of Michael -- perched atop a bed of vegetables, glazed like a suckling pig -- to spoil a glutton's appetite.
The maple old-fashioned is a perfectly crunchified dough that sits majestically glazed like the snow peaked Mt. Rainier with sumptuous frosting recently tapped from a Vermont maple.
One can only imagine the donkey head, with its hair pulled off by a red-hot iron, baked slowly, glazed like a boar's head with pins to hold up the ears, prunes for eyes, teeth inside congealed fat, all of it mounted on a bread plinth a complete mockery of a classic banquet centerpiece.
In addition to that unique glazed-like-a-vase model, Ferrari is selling fewer than 11 sleek fire-red and silver vehicles with the moniker 599 GTB Fiorano Limited Edition.
"If your eyes are glazing over like mine, this is what it's like to be on the floor of the United States Senate," Christie said.
The museum improved its roof insulation and glazing and, like Hall for Cornwall, altered its building management systems to cut unnecessary heating.
New production systems have been introduced, and dusty pink has been removed from the palette in favor of more contemporary glazing hues like persimmon and cocoa.
According to Glass Magazine, "Without question, dynamic glass is the next step in the evolution of energy-efficient glass," This means that in addition to advancing glazing techniques like triple panes with glasses or vacuums between them, glass manufacturers will continue to innovate sexier new ways to keep the view but lose the inefficiency.
Strategies were matched with conceptual technologies like glazing, shading and insulation.
