There's a pate sleeked down so smoothly that it might have been varnished, and pairs of plaits so tight that you can almost feel the faces between them being stretched.
The young aspirant was picked up by MGM and for her 1938 American debut in "Algiers" was given the full goddess treatment: sleeked down, smartened up, renamed, glamorously photographed, her jet black hair dramatically parted in the middle, her lovely face framed by hats and snoods and turbans that turned into both a trademark and a fashion sensation.
He sports a full mustache above an imperial, and his hair, sleeked down under pomade when he opens operations, invariably rises during the contest, as it gets water sloshed on it between rounds and the lacquer washes off, until it is standing up like the top of a shaving brush.
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These are sleek stripped-down machines, recalling a style, popular after World War II, in which owners chopped away excess to make their bikes leaner and faster.
Unlike its sibling restaurants, with their lines and numbered food pictures on the wall, Biang! is a sleek, sit-down affair.
It was also carefully calculated, like a sleek, stripped-down hot rod built with the single-minded goals of efficiency and speed.
After he saw the umbrella, Hollinger wrote me an e-mail, saying, "My opinion: on the up side, it looks attractive (maybe more elegant than sleek), on the down side — it needs a lot of work..
After he saw the umbrella, Hollinger wrote me an e-mail, saying, "My opinion: on the up side, it looks attractive (maybe more elegant than sleek), on the down side — it needs a lot of work...
