gild

Mr. Armitage does not gild this realization; he lets it stand, stark and unresolved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

You can futz with the bread, you can gild the cheese, but if the core is bland or watery or vaguely funereal, the whole enterprise collapses.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

“The challenge of it was to try to go to that place but not gild the lily too much,” Scott says.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2024

If you feel you need to gild the lily, then keep working.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2023

He might gild it, but in truth it was lacking.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

The way O’Hara gilds this line’s delivery with a wistful sparkle feels true because we’ve seen her spin such treasure playing all kinds of would-be topliners with an amiable, delicious amount of lunacy.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026

If I’ve got prosciutto on hand, it really gilds the lily, but it’s not necessary for a sublime tartine.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2020

In the center of town, the hotel gilds its Native American and Spanish aesthetic with all the luxe you require.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2018

She has been compared to the Dutch masters for her sense of silence and light, for the quality of patient attention that gilds the most modest moments.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018

From the standpoint of the boy the second period, whose characteristic was compulsion without supervision, was distinctly inferior to the first, when the gilds regulated the affairs of the trade for the common good.

From Boy Labour and Apprenticeship by Reginald Arthur Bray

The man was not instantly recognisable, but gold medals and gilded certificates piled nearby were inscribed with the name Hussam Luka.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

On her fireplace, an ornate gilded mirror from the 1940s she found at Sunbeam Vintage is flanked by porcelain figurines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

At the rear of the hospital, grey coffins with gilded bas-reliefs emerged before the cameras of dozens of journalists.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

The patio was catching the late afternoon sun, and the olive oil surrounding the gigantes — those enormous, tender butter beans — seemed almost gilded.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

Three servants march forward with a gilded mirror.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Ten-year gilt yields climbed 4.4 basis points to 5.024%, the highest level since July 31, Tradeweb data showed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Ten-year gilt yields climb 4.4 basis points to 5.024%, the highest level since July 31, Tradeweb data show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Ten-year gilt yields climbed 0.4 basis points to 4.924%, Tradeweb data show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Treasury yield rose to 4.679% while the 10-year U.K. gilt yield jumped to 5.089%, according to Tradeweb.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

I took the book and read its title, written in gold gilt on a black bar imprinted on the front cover.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

As a color, material, and metaphor, gold has been a trademark of Trumpworld since the 1980s, a decade of excess that found Trump building and gilding various real estate holdings.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Not many of us had “Jeffrey Epstein” or “Ghislaine Maxwell” on our bingo cards — to mix metaphors while gilding the lily.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2025

They were then sent for gilding and upholstery, before Mr Desnoues added designs and a wood finish.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025

Such fantasy would have been gilding the lily in Nicola Griffith’s brilliant 2013 novel “Hild” — a fictional reimagining of the young life of the girl who would grow up to become Saint Hilda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

What more could he ask for, but this — the late-day sun gilding the top of his new store gold as the knob of a flagpole.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen