Sentence examples for the varnish of from inspiring English sources

The varnish of the beach scene had yellowed and become unsightly, but as she removed it the mid-air man appeared, beside what appeared to be a sail.

Joseph Nagyvary, a retired professor at Texas A&M University who created an outcry several decades ago when he suggested that there were minerals in the varnish of old Italian instruments, used samples from cellos by other makers.

Although de Beauvoir believed that her relationship with Sartre was 'the one undoubted success of my life', Seymour-Jones gently scratches at the varnish of this statement until it flakes off like gilt from an icon.

Even standing still and silent, these machines sing their history: the drilled aluminium pedals, the elegant Jaeger and Veglia dials, the tartan cloth upholstery of the Mercedes, the little dents and stone-chips like the cracks in the varnish of a Rembrandt.

In addition, the Dreyfus affair resulting from the false charge against a Jewish officer, Alfred Dreyfus, of spying for the Germans erupted in the last years of the century, and the slurs or outright insults aimed at Jews that accompanied it opened Durkheim's eyes to the latent hatred and passionate feuds hitherto concealed under the varnish of civilization.

In fact, there are no historical references on the use of a ground layer under the decorations, in contrast with the varnish of musical instruments, where the presence of an inorganic ground layer is well known, especially during the 17th century, e.g. in many Stradivari's violins [16].

Losing the Michigan primary would strip the last of the varnish off the image of Mitt Romney as the inevitable GOP presidential nominee and commit him to the long march he says he's in shape for.

Place blobs of the varnish on paper towels.

Factor in the mountain foraging, the varnishing of fir cones (would that work with the conkers?), spraying of artichokes etc, and you're probably talking about all day.

It starts with the varnishing of the picture, goes back to Amélie's first meeting with Sargent at Pozzi's apartment, then moves forward to the Paris Salon and Amélie's downfall.

10% PEO (m wt 8 × 106) can give rise to a rubbery plateau above Tg which extends to about 130 °C transition to liquid defined by the onset temperature of the varnishing of the shear modulus.