His matte-black hair has grey roots but he looks nothing like 68 years old.
The first meaty thunderclap from Lucille, his matte-black guitar, is always rougher than you expect from a man who prides himself on family-friendly entertainment.
When Sunny Thakur, the scion of a suburban family influential in politics and real estate — and, according to press reports, the underworld — realized that even with a hydraulic nose-lift system, his matte-black 2012 Aventador LP700-4 couldn't clear the local speed bumps.
Purists may flinch, but the rest of us are already looking forward to the brothers' next film, "Fast & Furious: Showdown in Seraing," in which only Vin Diesel and his matte-black Corvette can get the lonely single mother to the welfare office before it closes for lunch.
"None of Levine's hard-edged burlesques prepare you for the sensuous satisfactions of his paintwork: the matte charm of his oil handling and the virtuoso refinement of his watercolors," the critic Maureen Mullarkey wrote in 2004.
His skin was cardboard colored and matte, his lips weirdly red and gentle.
Depending on the light and the angle, he changed shades, darker in the hollow of his neck, lighter at his wrist, a gloss finish on his knuckles -- a bit more matte on his palms -- but blue.
Derek Lam molded his from languid matte jersey.
When Mr. Jacobs looked for men's products that addressed shine, he found none, and decided to design his own line, Matte for Men.
The desk's drawing surface was also pretty beat up, from years of Mr. Hirschfeld cutting his own thick matte paper on it - to the point that its once flat, wooden surface now resembles, Mr. Leopold's word, "corduroy".
The latter is mostly known for helping to popularize manned space travel, his cover art for science fiction magazines including Collier's, Coronet, Astounding Science Fiction, and for his special effects matte paintings for films such as Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds.
