We heard about the atmosphere as a thin layer of varnish.

There is a lot of varnish still sitting there, several retouches, and some over cleaning. It becomes very visible.

Then when we went to press, the printer put a spot gloss on the ink and it really looked like it was running.

Wealth and children are only the gloss of this world, but good deeds that abide are better with your Lord for recompense, and better for expectation.

He said, In your exegesis, you must make it clear that every single verse of the Torah is a commentary, a gloss upon the Golden Rule.

Wealth and children are only the gloss of this world, but good deeds that abide are better with your Lord for recompense, and better for expectation.

Thus, the meeting in Mainz will be one of those diplomatic courtesy calls that gloss over important bilateral differences. There will be no meeting of minds between Bush and Schroeder, because, on most key issues, their minds hold opposite views.

With President Bush at the table, the spin masters who put a victorious gloss on all his actions had little need to lower expectations concerning the outcome of the G 8 meeting in Scotland. Any agreement would be seen as a major achievement.

The design of the round can include features to prevent these failure modes such as the application of some form or waterproofing coat such as varnish shellac around the primer, and the application of a suitable crimping pressure to ensure a tight fit of the projectile in the cartridge case.

And yet attempts to view canine smarts as cut from the same cloth as human intelligence gloss over a lot of the details about how dogs and humans operate. Evolution doesn t ever build the same form of intelligence twice even though similar problems may lead to similar solutions.

With President Bush at the table, the spin masters who put a victorious gloss on all his actions had little need to lower expectations concerning the outcome of the G 8 meeting in Scotland. Any agreement would be seen as a major achievement. The write off of multilateral debt for the world s poorest countries thanks to Britain s leadership is nonetheless especially welcome.

On the Republican side, hacks, spin masters, and many people who ought to have known better suddenly developed an extraordinary appreciation for something called the CPS Household Survey of Employment as a supposed guide to month to month changes in the labor market. The CPS survey was never designed to do this, but it offered the most favorable gloss on the Bush administration's dreadful record on employment.