(1) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
(2) This would sound gilded, except here is Klebold, revisiting every detail in a way that implies it might have been easier on her psychologically if there had been a catastrophe in the household, something pointing to why Dylan did what he did.
(3) said a colleague, referring to the former Chadian dictator, who had been living in gilded exile in Dakar since his overthrow in December 1990.
(4) His line on white privilege is ace: “There ain’t a white man in this room that would change places with me,” he says on his DVD Bigger & Blacker , then adds gleefully, “And I’m rich!” He makes lots of films, too, but as is often the way with comedians, those are, shall we say, less gilded affairs.
(5) The Front National, founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1972, has never been this close to installing its leader inside the gilded rooms of the Élysée Palace.
(6) Gilded molybdenum-wire remains in the sclera and episclera without any reaction of the tissue.
(7) The last gilded chance for Oscar came to his head: but, like his team, he could not deliver.
(8) The Downton journey has been amazing for everyone aboard,” said Fellowes, who wants to start focusing his attention on his long-awaited US drama The Gilded Age for NBC .
(9) Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah rushed to telephone Hosni Mubarak to express his support, after welcoming Tunisia's exiled leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to a gilded exile in Jeddah.
(10) He laughs from a red leather chair in his gilded suite at the Foreign Office, the most opulent of ministerial quarters.
(11) They choose to pay less because of a business model that sees the workforce as a cost to be driven down in the pursuit of ever higher profit, often linked to bloated bonuses and share options for a gilded few at the top – and subsidised with billions in publicly funded tax credits.
(12) The BBC's bosses are not alone in roaming the gilded halls of the public sector.
(13) But as he sat in the gilded hall, where Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev had all received the prize in recent decades, Clegg decided he was witnessing a special moment.
(14) Just the fact of its being there at all took my breath away - a discordant modernist appendage to the gilded baroque former courthouse which is the entrance to the museum, and thus a symbolic reproach to bürgerlich Berlin itself.
(15) But they were not tired-and-emotional, and for such mannerly foreigners to have been given a practical definition of that local idiom would have been gilding the lily.
(16) It obliged them to keep the majority poor while the rich enjoyed a gilded age.
(17) Some claim her as an unlikely feminist escaping the gilded cage of France's first lady.
(18) Karen Koren, artistic director of Edinburgh's Gilded Balloon, says that the two companies made comedy the new rock and roll.
(19) On a platform level with the octagonal cage in which the fighters would assault each other, was a row of gilded sofas, scattered with red cushions, which still lacked occupants.
(20) The house-guests were sufficiently gilded to feel at ease in its Palladian splendour – but even to these worldly young things, their friends' dad must have cut a daunting figure.
Sugarcoat
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a big game for him, apparently: Let's not sugarcoat anything, this is the biggest game up until this point in time that I've ever pitched.
(2) It hadn’t yet snowed enough to sugarcoat the scenery.
(3) There was plenty to smile about for Jürgen Klopp in the end as his team climbed to second in the table on the back of a fourth successive Premier League victory, yet the Liverpool manager made no attempt to sugarcoat a first-half performance that prompted the temperature to rise in the visitors’ dressing room at the interval.
(4) Many white supremacists try to sugarcoat their racism by talking about Martin Luther King this month.
(5) They have still begun on message boards created by the same people who – and I will not sugarcoat this – refer to people who are not white as “shit-skins”.
(6) I don’t sugarcoat it.” It is her job to tell farmers when – or if – a team can visit their property to drill for groundwater and make a well which can save a crop, avert bankruptcy and, perhaps, preserve a way of life.
(7) I mean, this is a real big moment, don't sugarcoat.
(8) I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, because they're not going to get it sugarcoated in the real world.
(9) I don’t want to sugarcoat it – their baby was executed in broad daylight,” Crump said of Brown’s parents.
(10) The Labour leader was urged not to “pass the buck” or sugarcoat the result after Theresa May’s Conservatives secured the first byelection gain by a government since 1982, in a Cumbrian seat that had been held by his party since 1935.