"Boxed in" elements lie behind filigree screens or glass enclosures.
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Delicate pizzicato movements evoked the filigree wisps of Persian calligraphy.
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She dispatched coloratura runs and filigree with ease and agility.
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On the latter song her voice is delicate as gold filigree.
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Iyer answers with a misty dissonance or a ghostly filigree pattern.
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The door still had its metal filigree gate and marble steps.
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Farther down, it reaches the South China Sea through a filigree delta.
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If he could put his name on it in gold filigree, he would.
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The music abounds in swirling runs and filigree, breezily dispatched by Mr. Denk.
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And many of the smaller drawings have filigree patterns that almost seem knitted.
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You may for a moment think Monika Knutsson's jewelry is filigree or repoussé.
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The art is two filigree leaves, right below the centers of both her knuckles.
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The gold filigree drop earrings were even on sale recently for less than $2!
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The center stone is a citrine, and the white gold filigree is just beautiful.
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The ring, a diamond surrounded by platinum filigree, dates to between 1890 and 1910.
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A filigree of maple syrup and sea salt, and it is a dainty lumberjack's breakfast.
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And Meghan Markle, with her breathtaking filigree tiara and purposefully messy bun, is leading the pack.
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As an artisan, Mr. Ahmad works with his hands, making filigree-like embroidery on "cashmere" shawls.
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The endlessness is only in the filigree, like the spots on a moth or Queequeg's tattoos.
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It dates from the 1700s and is decorated with gold-leaf filigree on its red leather casing.
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Woven through with an ornate, rippling harp filigree, the luxuriant textures were multilayered instead of silky smooth.
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It is captured in the wedding-cake filigree of the fairground's dark structures elaborately trimmed in lights.
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The swing of their door knocker hoop earrings echo the curve of green filigree swirling around them.
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Other times, Ms. Cuckson's filigree lines seemed to haunt Mr. Kremer's playing like an apparition from the future.
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When people sit on the harpsichord or at a harp and do some filigree patterns, I'm in heaven.
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In the midst of all this creativity, we've forgotten about our day one: filigree tubes, or hair cuffs.
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The metal filigree and glass roof was constructed to join both the Supreme Court and City Hall buildings.
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It features elaborate filigree details and a wind-up mechanism that lets the carousel rotate on its own.
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You're looking at nine-foot portraits so filigree-precise that they actually read as black-and-white photographs.
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Das imparts these messages delicately, as filigree on a story already gilded in rich imagery and harrowing conflict.
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When the songs are played in their hometown, he said, what stands out is the lack of filigree.
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The city's sugary spires and golden filigree look at once better and worse for their current day insignificance.
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Her Neil Lane bling included earrings designed with a fleur de'lyse motif and a diamond set filigree platinum bracelet.
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It includes vintage-inspired styles like cat-eye frames that feature the company's first use of floral filigree ($145).
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I love in particular this strange two-string harmony, followed by a fragment of filigree passagework that's almost Rococo.
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If filigree and This Mortal Coil were in the mix, Scott Walker was sure to come up in conversation.
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There were little straw hats and woven espadrilles, striped shorts and smock coats, misty tie-dye and filigree embroidery.
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Other techniques, such as filigree granulation and engraving, suggest ties to areas as distant as Yemen, Syria, and Somalia.
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These are organized into a rough square and clad in hexagonal metal mesh to reference the local tradition of filigree.
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From the first variation, he smothered the gorgeous tune in filigree, apparently harking back to those pianistic showpieces of yore.
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But looking back, contemplating my future in the filigree of the ceiling, an assured sense of calm came over me.
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Although it's essentially a fast, hard techno track, it stands out for its genuinely ambitious filigree of time-modulated breakbeats.
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Mr. Perahia was especially inspired in the great, searching slow movement, which he played with unusual lilt and finespun filigree.
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With pleasing symmetry, the story includes references to watchmakers and Filigree Street, linking "The Bedlam Stacks" to Pulley's first novel.
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Under Jamie Lloyd's filigree direction, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox and Zawe Ashton made complicated thoughts and concealed emotions acutely visible.
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They have succeeded with this beautiful chardonnay, bursting with flavors of fresh fruit and flowers, with a filigree of minerality.
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If Petty, who died in 2017, had finished it for an album, it would have had more gleam and filigree.
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The Salon Doré is named after the gold network of gilt filigree found on its walls, doors, tables, and chairs.
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I should say that few dramatists of the 20th and 21st centuries matched Mr. Albee as a spinner of filigree dialogue.
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According to the arboretum's website, antique gas lanterns and iron filigree park furniture were set out to truly transform the park.
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She shows this with the boxing gloves covered in lace and satin, in intricate beadwork, in flowery filigree, in ribbons and bows.
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And to no surprise, the occasion was marked with a ton of gold filigree details and A-list guests, including the Wests.
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Despite a few dragging interludes, Ms Hammad's command of the broad picture and the filigree detail alike makes this paradoxical tone succeed.
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But Rihanna's regal Swarovski crystal- and pearl-encrusted filigree crown goes way beyond that: It will set you back a casual $8,895.
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When we get to the type, there's a lot of intricacies using the chains and filigree and locks and stuff like that.
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Filigree screens accent the stairs that lead to a transparent glass walkway, which connects the old and new parts of the home.
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As I passed the building one day, there was a chest of drawers on the curb with 10 beautiful brass-filigree handles.
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The royal mom, 38, chose the Simple Filigree Short Drop Earrings by Accessorize in gold, adding a stylish touch to her look.
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Mr. Butler commanded the syncopated power and splashy filigree of boogie-woogie and gospel and the rolling polyrhythms of Afro-Caribbean music.
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She is a flamenco dancer, so her back is arched in a majestic serpentine curve, her arms and hands an ornamental filigree.
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He was doing large-scale, broad-brush work, and it was up to the archaeologists to add their fine filigree of detail.
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It has the scent of haste, and also of urgency — these songs work familiar West turf, but with almost no filigree beyond faith.
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Seen from beneath, the filigree is porous and open to the sky, but so densely layered as to create a light-dappled shade.
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Because it has been created by Ms. Kennedy, this landscape is as ugly as it is beautiful, its filigree shaped from barbed wire.
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The tables are set with dark wooden chopstick handles, wrapped in metal filigree at one end, with brushed steel tips at the other.
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The lute (played by the fine Arash Noori) is curiously fixated on two notes, though these recurring pitches are often decorated with filigree.
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As a result, Lee's words weren't exactly necessary to the story; instead, they functioned as a mix of semi-redundant explication and bombastic filigree.
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The 4 centimeter (1.5 inch)-long filigree hoop with a ram's head mould, shown here, was discovered during excavations outside Jerusalem's walled Old City.
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There were new themes, and more extensive passages of droning filigree, quaking with beating acoustic tremors that emerged from Mr. Young's precisely controlled frequencies.
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J.P. A virtuoso pianist well known to jazz fans since the 1990s, Marcus Roberts has a graceful touch and an ear for sparkling filigree.
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A seemingly infinite array of goldsmithing skills have been developed since the Mesopotamians demonstrated cloisonné, filigree and granulation techniques more than 3,000 years ago.
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Gold ribbons are tied to handlebars, braided into horses' manes and woven through the filigree iron balconies that stand like sheets of weaponized lace.
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I snapped a lot of pictures of gold filigree iPad cases while promising to list my most differentiating traits to myself in the mirror later.
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Upstairs, the main rooms — a large living space and a master bedroom — both have archways in the center, and are decorated with outstanding filigree molding.
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Ms. Etebari added a distinctive hanging fringe of gold filigree and tiny emeralds meant to symbolize rain, important in a land usually short on it.
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Entirely self-taught, he first mastered the filigree technique for which his local region is famous, after being inspired by the pieces in local museums.
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At Versace, regional elements were gilded with Euro glamour: gold belt buckles, gold-trimmed leather and a black Western-style pantsuit edged in gold filigree.
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"The master craftsmen at this workshop are doing filigree work and engraving just as their predecessors would have done 150 years ago," Mr. Burton said.
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Trump, with the help of Niceta, designed the details, settling on the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidential china sets, both have gold filigree.
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Where his last album, "Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper," had a harder edge, "Buoys" features gentle, acoustic songs that still have some unconventional filigree.
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Normally I think of Gustav Klimt as the painter of sumptuous, decorative filigree and his colleague Egon Schiele as the artist of the brilliantly economical line.
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This filigree overtly appears in the hotel lobby paintings and others, but the general structure — a primary motif, embellished — is present more broadly throughout the compositions.
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In arias from Handel's "Orlando" and Bellini's "La Sonnambula," he displayed musical taste, honest execution of Handelian ornaments and bel canto filigree, and a solid voice.
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Between 2009 and 2011 alone, the quartet premiered her ruminative, mercurial "Frayed," her harp quintet "Filigree in Textile," and "Blood Rose," which also featured Ms. Sollek.
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From here Natasha Pulley, an English writer whose previous book was the well-received novel "The Watchmaker of Filigree Street," leads readers on an epic journey.
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In addition to the pumpkin coach stroller, which comes complete with hand-hewn metal filigree (by humans, not fairy godmothers), a tufted seat, and a sun shade.
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Primitivism ran through Modernism as a filigree (sometimes in the background) from beginning to end, and took many guises, from Fauvism and Cubism to Surrealism and Gottlieb.
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It was made by the architect Roulland le Roux who used two perspective points to give mass and dimension to its attenuated form and High Gothic filigree.
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A tiny beaded black figure swings by one foot from a wind-tossed tree in "Catch a Nigger by His Toe," a lethal image fine as filigree.
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The nodal network — its flat landscape, its grid under a soft-focus lens, its sublime elimination of flaw and filigree — was a metaphor for both ownership and containment.
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The whole river—from Himalayan glaciers across the vast North Indian plain to the filigree delta on the Bay of Bengal—is worshipped as a life-affirming goddess.
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Items included 15 ashtrays, a $8,500 Yugoslavian filigree cigarette case and holder, and a $62,000 baroque bed once belonging to her grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore.
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I'm dying to try the hack because my filigree tubes always end up slipping off of my braids, no matter how hard I try to wrap them around.
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These finely honed death traps come in many forms, from the trampoline-like construction of the sheet web spider, to the instantly recognizable filigree of the orb weaver.
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Goldsmiths are assigned to create pieces of jewelry, depending on their skills in such areas as intricate filigree or working with a particular metal or kind of wood.
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Yet, one gets from her work an overflow of decorative filigree that becomes abject in its abundance — the visual equivalent of feeling sick after imbibing too much sugar.
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His playing, full of clustered filigree and loosely rendered rhythms, nods toward Ethiopia's tradition of solitary folk playing, typically on the krar or the masinko, both stringed instruments.
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It's here that the vibe relaxes and the picture's filigree becomes brighter and wittier as extras with puffball hairdos straight out of Dr. Seuss light up the background.
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A Broadway leading lady known for powerhouse performances in "Ragtime" and "Kiss Me, Kate," she brings a touch of brass to a character Ms. O'Hara forged in silver filigree.
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Mr. Burton, whose artistry is at times most evident in its filigree, can be a great collector when given the right box to fill, as is the case here.
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"I'm Better" is produced by and features Lamb, who is something of a Timbaland manqué, and serves largely as a foundation upon which Ms. Elliott can hang her filigree.
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Martinez, who is in her fifties, with highlighted dark hair, pencilled brows, and a filigree of tattoos on her chest and arms, was waiting outside, tsking Kushner for walking around.
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The team, many of whom date to her father's day, continue to use the ancient techniques including filigree, hand-braided chain and hand-hammering that he revived and made famous.
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The director Alice Waddington sets the look and mood swiftly, most successfully through the costumes and the production design, both adorned with dollops of color and witty, texture-enriching filigree.
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Rather than adorning cadences with excessive filigree like his Baroque forebears, the plodding heaviness of Schubert's trill stops the piece dead in its tracks before allowing the dainty melody to resume.
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Tasty selections include tartare di tonno, a mound of well-chopped ahi tuna, with a filigree of tartar sauce looped over the top, served with an avocado mousse and two crostini.
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It is a fortune, more than enough for a serious splurge: for a pair of fat gold filigree bracelets, say, or an entire kitchen's worth of high-priced pots and pans.
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Her short tone poem "Aerality" leans on sustained notes, yet its sonorities are so alive with ever-changing instrumental filigree that it simultaneously achieves a state of stasis and of transformation.
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He rather masks his feelings in humor and a feelgood, homespun pop style given to snaky guitar figures, string filigree, sighed backup vocals cooing and aching, and vaguely tropical keyboard coloring.
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He is a dutiful student of Young Thug's non sequitur filigree, which dominates the sound of streaming and has been put to use by everyone from Post Malone to Lil Baby.
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He sustained the filigree beauty of Chopin's two piano concertos with cool authority; listening to a blind recording, some judged the pianist to be a performer at the peak of his powers.
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That certainly feels true when you look down on Los Angeles—a meshwork of highway laid over a fractally complex mesoscale of avenues and boulevards and a microscale filigree of surface streets.
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The lack of filigree extends to the cop story, which stands out for what it doesn't have: no sexual tension, no secret maneuvering, no pitched battles with superiors, no officers in jeopardy.
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Mr. Tepfer proudly displays his debts to the dark harmonics of Paul Bley and Ran Blake, while Mr. Konitz matches his partner's restraint, playing cleareyed melodies without filigree, all focus and resonance.
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Both vehicles — like the other cars drip-drying here on Monday night — bore a muddy filigree from the recently receded floodwaters, caked onto their formerly shiny bodies like rings in a bathtub.
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The problem is to materialize nothingness, to trace the filigree of the void at the edge of the void, to play according to the mysterious rules of indifference at the limits of indifference.
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That, for me, has been the hardest thing: really whittling down my voice to just that filigree of a sound, singing on what I would call a thin edge of the vocal cord.
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And the shockingly funny one-liners you expect from Mr. Silver — in which the unspeakable is spoken with the style of a filigree dagger being twisted into the flesh — are in short supply.
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Then, when I get downstairs, I have to sidestep a film crew striking a shoot in the building's ground floor, and I remember that until something in this town is concrete, it's filigree.
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"Chief Engineer" is Ms Wagner's solidly constructed biography of Washington Roebling, the man who joined Brooklyn to Manhattan by the grace of a steel and concrete arc held aloft by a filigree of wire.
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Boyd showed off her sparkling ring, which features a large round stone set above what appears to be a filigree and diamond-embellished band, at the premiere of Sicario at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Popular in the U.K. and Moscow, tiny metal stars, hearts, and filigree leaves are used to create new-age, wood-nymph, borderline witchy-woman hair that would make a '70s-era Stevie Nicks proud.
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Arkady Martine's A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE (Tor, $25.99) is a mesmerizing debut, sharp as a knife that threatens as much by the gold filigree in its hilt as by the edge of its blade.
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The body is also held together by the requirements of social events, as in "Black Tie Affair" (2017), where the face is just that cut-out filigree, plus the eyes, hands, and a bow tie.
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From the start, the French-born Alfred Van Cleef and his wife, Estelle Arpels, ventured beyond the belle epoque style of diamond-encrusted platinum filigree and into the brightly colored kingdom of flora and fauna.
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The turquoise walls are covered with leafy gold filigree that sometimes seems to separate from the walls and close in on Violetta, emphasizing the social pressures on her and her status as a kept woman.
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Mr. Kenney performed a "Fantasia" by the baroque composer Nicola Matteis that consists entirely of broken up chords, a filigree meditation by Kaija Saariaho called "Nocturne," and the Chaconne from Bach's second Partita for solo violin.
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"The vibe relaxes and the picture's filigree becomes brighter and wittier as extras with puffball hairdos straight out of Dr. Seuss light up the background," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review in The New York Times.
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One is like an étude, with dazzling runs in double thirds for the pianist's right hand; in another, the left hand holds things steady with a chordal pattern while the right hand unfolds in carefree filigree.
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After the Valentino show, as guests tottered out, visions of filigree Victorian and bright craftsman prints in their heads, policemen with big black guns barred the exit road because of a suspicious package on the sidewalk.
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Which is to say, Ms. Carey was once a singer who thrilled with filigree — both in the ornate nature of her vocals, and also, in the middle of her career especially, with the density of her productions.
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Philip Chasen, an antiques dealer in East Norwich, N.Y., said that few other enthusiasts specialized as intently as Mr. Hancock, although Mr. Chasen did have one customer who sought only Tiffany desk sets enlaced in grapevine filigree.
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Its pedigree and behind-the-scenes talent ensure that "The Crimes of Grindelwald" is scattered with minor pleasures, mostly ornamental — the brassy filigree that summons up old worlds, the stray elf that reminds you of adventures past.
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Around them swirl modernist painterly gestures — splashes of color that block off and obscure parts of the figures interrupting the narrative flow, or appearing as filigree around subsidiary objects, or as repeated designs that might approximate flowers.
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She said that while composing "Filigree in Textile," a three-movement piece for harp and string quartet inspired by medieval tapestry art, she spent many hours trying to create a sense of perpetual motion in the harp part.
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Mr. Sigurdsson's pieces floated the viola da gamba's throaty lines, sometimes echoing Baroque filigree, in hovering, otherworldly electronic tones and reverberations; it was as if a classical heritage was being perceived from some distant perspective, like our own.
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Jennifer Lawrence displayed her summit-of-the-A-list status by showing up too late to name-drop the designer of her filigree-black lace dress, its skirt topped with jagged points and its upper half utterly lingerie-like.
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There were a lot of pants — Léa Seydoux in Vuitton, Margot Robbie in sequined Chanel pants and a filigree white Princess and the Pea tunic — and cropped tops: Marion Cotillard, in a low-slung Chanel skirt and halter top.
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As her brother tinkered with antique watches in the back room, Ms. Carli brooded over a few pairs of filigree earrings from the 18th century, and said sadly, "We were born into this shop, but we'll close it someday."
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And while the budget probably explains why most of the superior officers who pop in briefly are played by name actors — Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch — their casting also adds distinctly royal filigree to the ostensibly democratic mix.
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It showcases filigree jewelry, a signature product of Portugal, which women in the country's north make from wires that are silver, silver dipped in 19143-karat gold or 19.25-karat gold throughout, the quality considered standard in the country.
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Celebrated for short stories of filigree sentences and blood-freezing endings, Munro (1870-1916) is being reincarnated with suitably macabre elegance at the Fourth Street Theater, where Katherine Rundell's "Life According to Saki" begins previews on Wednesday, Feb. 8.
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The corona is decorated with a kind of lattice, a stylized version of the filigree ironwork made by slaves in New Orleans and South Carolina, giving the museum the look of a temple devoted to a vaguely benevolent god.
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Some pieces, such as "Paire de fibules (khella) ornées de rinceaus et d'une khamsa – Or moulé et ciselé" (20th century), from Moknine, Tunisia, display floral arabesque designs full of piercing filigree inherited from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine traditions.
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It contains many of the classic mobiles, like "Hanging Spider" (pictured), a whimsical sky-borne filigree in black dancing on ambient currents, or "Blizzard (Roxbury Flurry)", which captures the subtle atmospheric effects of a winter storm in wire and metal.
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Wheeler, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest belonged to a New York decorating team called Associated Artists, which stocked the Twain home with brass filigree, woodcarvings and stenciled plaster in motifs from North Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
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And Mr. Farr and Ms. Bier, who make the story's chronology linear and emphasize its scenic and suspenseful elements, haven't found a way to reproduce the inner life that Mr. le Carré gives Pine, largely through the filigree of his writing.
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Fonzi was hunched over the Avid console; Haynes sat on a sofa eight feet behind him, his production notes at his side, staring at a large monitor as they applied a fine filigree of rhythm and clarity to the scenes.
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In his staging for American Ballet Theatre (at the Metropolitan Opera House, July 1-6), Alexei Ratmansky draws from original notations and period sketches to restore a filigree that had eroded since the ballet's première, in St. Petersburg, in 1890.
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I get a magnet for myself and one for a friend, a pair of traditional filigree earrings in silver for myself and a gold pair for my mother, and some rose facial moisturizer from the oldest pharmacy in the city for a friend.
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Much of their work is done by hand, as Fahmy has renewed some of the ancient techniques of Egyptian jewelry-making: hand piercing and stone setting, and filigree, which involves placing tiny wires and beads onto a backing of the same precious metal.
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So she asked her old professor why, and this professor — also a woman — said because their examiners are still in the main men, and they like a lot of flash and filigree, whereas women go to endless lengths of attribution and details.
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It had silver-plated and gilded roses that quivered in performances, as did the metal butterflies that hovered over its flowers; the stone-encrusted headband was strewn with pearls that draped over her forehead and dangled to her shoulders from jutting swirls of filigree.
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LISBON — As Portugal lost its colonies around the globe, the country's nearly six centuries of influence ensured a legacy of distinctive decorative style: delicate filigree jewelry, colorful azulejo tiles, intricate wrought iron work and black-and-white patterned stone sidewalks and praças, or plazas.
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Those my age and older, who were in urban environments and paying attention to the beginnings of hip-hop, will appreciate his "King Kane" (2017), a reimagining of the rapper Big Daddy Kane in medieval armor wearing a wave of gold filigree at his neck.
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From the attic, a suspended spiral staircase with iron filigree railing and carved angels leads to the tower, which offers a panoramic view of Parede and a large swath of the Atlantic and, on a clear day, a vista all the way out to the Sintra Mountains.
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That 44 percent of college-educated people voted for this person who made fun of disabled people and talked about grabbing pussy — it fills me with such despair that it makes me feel that my work is just filigree on the rotting body of a corpse.
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Gone was the fragile Ferretti woman of yore, all floaty chiffon filigree frocks and fairy tales; welcome the new, football pad-shouldered 1980s Ferretti, with a leather cape, a studded belt and a bit of disco shine amid a whole lot of black and dark denim.
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But the undeniable highlight comes on the only non-orchestral track, when Aretha Franklin accompanies herself on "O Tannenbaum," treating the melody with just the right amount of pomp and filigree, allowing her piano playing to skip ahead and her voice to catch up at its leisure.
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The buzzy wah-wah keyboards, distorted guitar solo, and twirly synthesizer filigree capture an appropriate blend of swagger and desperation, yet the prevailing mood is gleeful, and to listen to "The Man" is to witness a rock & roll hustler smirking at how handsome he looks in the mirror.
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Viktor's self-portrait, "Eleventh" (2018) is surrounded by decorative gold filigree and a chromatically bountiful scheme of red leaves and white flowers, and she's also surrounded by language, place names such as "Mende" and "Bakwe" to map out where she is from in the wide-ranging African diaspora.
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"It's like what's going on with luxury condos — foreign money is taking a breather because of what's happening with our politics," said Charles Arnold, an agent seeking a tenant for a 2,200-square-foot store at 103 Madison Avenue, a brick building with gold filigree near East 58th Street.
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Earth, Wind & Fire's No. 1 hit, from 1975, plugs into the same uplifting funk frequency as Sly and the Family Stone, but with its own neat filigree: Notice the way the band sets up every wallop by the horns, especially after a guitar-and-keyboard interlude that follows the first chorus.
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Mr. Ratmansky grew up in Soviet Russia, but his productions (he also staged "The Sleeping Beauty" for Ballet Theatre in 2015) show a passion to establish a view of Petipa that shakes off the many stylistic changes of the Soviet era: filigree footwork, vividly communicative mime, dramatic coherence underlying the dance.
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This season, a trip to the Cloisters inspired a host of tapestry prints, parchment shades and stylized florals, not to mention chain mail and silver filigree embroideries, all balanced by a stripped-down silhouette: narrow pants with deep cuffs and squared-off jackets; pencil skirts with slouchy sweaters sporting jeweled bouquets.
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The English ransacked the spoils of other colonial cultures as well: The colors, shapes and patterns celebrated in the French decorator Francis Spar's seminal 250 decorating book, "Le Style Anglais: 25-21950," a bible to this current crop of designers, are detailed with Moroccan filigree and tinged with Southeast Asian greens and blues.
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There were small-shouldered, tailored A-line car coats and bolero tailcoats; corset-waisted petal skirts of fur under graphic Grecian-urn knits; body-hugging graphic curves and Mod dotty shifts; and a series of lace and knit evening gowns that combined filigree lace with deep-pile velour in a feat of erstwhile impossible technique.
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"There was a good reason to choose the name for the collection, which is connected with Alrosa's intention to revive the traditions and memory of renowned Russian jewelers famous for their craftsmanship and filigree since Russia's first cutting and polishing factory founded by Peter I (the Great) early in the 18th century," the company said.
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With exquisite precision, his playing evoked the different states of water, from the smoothness of a frozen river (on which you virtually see the singer lose his footing) to the filigree delicacy of frost rosettas on a window and, in the song about frozen tears, the uncanny rendition of an icicle caught in the moment of melting.
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In the decade or so since Vampire Weekend emerged from Columbia University with wry, literate, quasi-comic indie rock run through with African guitar filigree, the band has been many things: a signature return-of-indie-rock avatar, an argument for musical omnivorousness, a flash point for conversations about cultural appropriation, a worthy festival band and more.
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Several smaller and more low-key markets selling crafts — beaded purses, embroidered shirts, woven belts, filigree earrings, as well as the painted, whimsical wooden animals made in the nearby village of Arrazola — are near the Templo de Santo Domingo, on the other side of the zócalo and a 2513-minute walk from the 9513th of November market.
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Other highlights include Palitana, with 900 carved temples; a safari in Sasan Gir National Park, home to 300 Asiatic lions; the fortified town of Gondal; Bhuj City, including a visit to the Zenana Mahal palace to see its wooden filigree work; and a drive through the Kutch desert region to visit tribes who have lived there for centuries.
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Among the most exciting are a rare collection of gold coins dated back to the 11th century; the marvelously intricate gold filigree jewelry, made in the Islamic tradition; large jewel-encrusted crosses and relic-boxes, made in the European tradition; and European-Jewish jewelry depicting the long lost temple destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70.
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The work resonates in Mely Barragán's soft sculpture which spells out the word "Macho" in filigree cursive and captures both the quotidian absurdity of daily gender inequity and the banality and redundancy of calling out the machismo of Mexican culture, as though it were only ensconced within that particular national imaginary and not an international point of concern and contention.
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She did it via precisely tailored white tuxedo jackets over slick black trousers inset with lace on the side and buckled at multiple points around the legs; buttery black leather coats and dresses embroidered with butterflies or hand-painted with roses, the aggression leeched out; and filigree knit lace dresses and satin bed jackets trimmed in marabou reminiscent of Jean Harlow.
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Which may be why, once you blinked away the spots on your retinas, what was visible on the runway was a play on all kinds of masks — blank-faced and S&M leatherette and filigree metal, some full-face, some playing peekaboo with eyes and mouth — and Mr. Michele's now-signature exaggerated vintage grabfest of gender-bending costume for both sexes.
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His featured a panoply of greatest hits — the enormous pastel tulle confections that have been his showstopper signatures; the high-low Watteau party-dress taffetas that rise to the thigh in front and sweep through a doorway in the back; the little 1960s shifts embroidered with filigree orange blossoms; the strapless empire-waist columns bursting with peony blooms from rib cage to ankle — all placed, if not on a pedestal per se, then on an assortment of platforms.
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