Take Hanan, an upper-middle-class Syrian with four college-educated children, regularly manicured hands and a domestic servant.
The owner, the forward-looking Mr Matadides, truffles out the bargains, charming artists and old ladies with his impeccable manners and manicured hands.
Through a complex layering of such motifs as Coca-Cola bottles, kitchen appliances, packaged foods, and women's lipsticked mouths and manicured hands, Rosenquist's large canvases and prints embody and comment on the dizzying omnipresence of the consumer world.
Standing near its entrance, next to the enormous sample of banded iron she collected, she rests manicured hands on the black boulder streaked with burnt red and tells its story.
If there was a drawback to the huge production, it was that you couldn't make out the incredible details, like the tiny pearls on the models' manicured hands.
In a scene that had me dabbing at tears of laughter, Annie and Helen battle to give the best speech, tugging the mic out of each other's manicured hands in a relay of resentment.
Tiny and bird-like, with a beautiful coif of white or rinsed hair in old age, she wore high heels with her lab coat, and wielded her minute spatulas with exquisitely manicured hands.An ardent champion of scientific training for women (she set up a foundation for it), she never married or had children.
There was not a snore to be heard at a recent performance, but laughter of the doubled-over variety was abundant, which is rare in a country where even sophisticated young women still try to hide any sign of amusement behind carefully manicured hands.
But this is not one of those poor-me albums; it's not quite Skinner weighing up the benefits of shagging famous birds over civilians, not quite J-Lo begging us to ignore those weighty diamonds dangling from her lavishly manicured hands.
Looking at his neatly manicured hands and then out the window into grayness, Connell begins his tale in a gentle voice with a Boston Irish lilt.
Rather than have your delicate, manicured hands touch the filth of the sauce on wings or ribs, you instead use these modern marvels to move the food from the plate to your gaping maw.
