filigree
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It isn’t the familiar plotlines, it’s the decorative filigree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The first weeks of his second term, he put another piece of gold filigree above the door, and then it was between the paintings.
From Slate ● May 7, 2026
Trina wears her wampum beads She fills her drawing book with line Sewing lace on widow’s weeds And filigree on leaf and vine.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
For all the political filigree, “The Regime” boils down to a love story of sorts between Elena and Herbert, and the stripped gears of their shifting power dynamic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
The house smelled of warmth, good food, sweet powder and a stronger candylike smell that came from a hard chalkish disc that Sissy wore in an imitation-silver filigree heart on a chain around her neck.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
It’s a wildly playful album, full of risky production and arrangements — skittering aquatic beats, odd filigrees, punchy power harmonies.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
Erhard Rom’s sets, too, strike a fine balance between caricatured opulence and comic minimalism — he projects elegant filigrees to fill parlor walls, streaks of marble to conjure a garden.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2022
Her impassioned filigrees invited empathic responses from the choir, and found stalwart support from the event’s MC, the Rev James Cleveland.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2019
Balancing on his hands or torso, he frees his legs to twist into filigrees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2017
Lichens splotch the stone; leached minerals have left filigrees of stains.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
An obvious model for the film is “Babe,” but minus the droll wit, the inspired lunacy and the filigreed plot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
It would be better to view this fine film as deceptively small, revealing its own distinctively filigreed array of the gentle and good in all that meaningful silence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
After flowering, the plants set an equally abundant crop of ballooning seedpods topped with a filigreed crown.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
Vieux Farka Touré has inherited his father's expressive, filigreed guitar phrasing; while Khruangbin are known for fusing elements of soul and blues with a globe-trotting blend of dub, Thai funk, cumbia and flamenco.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2022
They’re beautiful: a filigreed pattern, like those Persian designs on mosques, supporting sapphire stones.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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