John C. McGinley

If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.

American Actor

Susan Orlean

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

American Journalist

Janice Dickinson

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

American Model

Hamlin Garland

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

American Novelist

Dominic Holland

Tom has a gilded life which I have had a glimpse of. Yes, he does travel in private jets.

English Comedian

Mahatma Gandhi

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Indian Leader

Phaedrus

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

Roman Poet

Sonia Rykiel

I don't know why some women don't wear make-up. Every woman should gild the lily.

French Designer

Logan Pearsall Smith

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

American Writer

Helen Hayes

American Actress

The verb 'gild' literally involves applying actual gold, highlighting the luxurious or costly aspect.

Literal Gold

Gilding implies a thin, often decorative layer, suggesting surface-level enhancement rather than transformation.

Thin Application

Understanding 'gild' historically enriches its meaning, as it was a valued skill in ancient crafts and arts.

Historical Value

'Gild' sometimes implies misleading others by making something seem more appealing than it is.

Misleading Charm

Gilding can be used metaphorically to describe efforts to conceal flaws or shortcomings.

Disguising Flaws

'Gild' in a figurative sense can refer to adding unnecessary details or features for effect.

Figurative Embellishment

'Gild' can indicate adding a positive aspect to an experience, improving its overall perception.

Positive Spin

Used metaphorically, 'gild' often refers to moments or elements that bring joy or happiness.

Moments of Joy

When 'gild' is used in emotional contexts, it implies adding warmth or positivity to feelings.

Emotionally Charged

 it's about the whole system, the whole energy system that goes with that lightbulb, and what happened in that gilded age was the creation of an industrial system that every country around the world has now started to emulate. So to get to the appliances, you need to have power stations. From power stations, you need to have infrastructure,

The thrilling potential...

 from utilitarian rafts to the Doge's own ostentatious gilded barge. Like a modern day taxi system, gondolas were leased to boatmen who made the rounds of the city's ferry stations. Passengers paid a fare to be carried from one side of the Grand Canal to the other, as well as to other points around the city.

Corruption, wealth and...

 Everybody means everybody, means everybody here. And so maybe I'll build a gilded cage. I'll line the bottom with old notebook pages. Inside it, I will place a mockingbird for -- short explanation, hippie parents. What does a violin have to do with technology? Where in the world is this world heading?

Rives: A mockingbird...

 he said have been he could have been in a gold gilt room with a chair and you know like I personally thought he should be suspended in the air over the Sistine Chapel like right in between God and Adam and the stark but you know I come from theater so that's my idea but um my

What I learned at...

 would have been specialists the blades that they used back then were being used in reality they produce these blades using a technique known as pattern welding a process that created blades with beautiful swirling and rippling patterns to fit their golden gilded fittings

Welding a Saxon Sword PIPE...

 than the gilded roofs of any destination you could reach you were more marvelous in that simple wish to find a way than the gilded roofs of any destination you could as if, all along, you had thought the end point might be a city with golden domes, and cheering crowds,

A lyrical bridge between...

 became the most magical thing to me. It became a gilded gateway into a world full of pirates and shipwrecks and images in my imagination. So I felt like our cellphones and our fancy watches and our cameras had stopped us from dreaming.

Shilo Shiv Suleman:...

 service but that's like a seed yeah cavalry everybody see on these are rare yams are really rare it's a beautiful eagle button still has some of the gold gilt on it and the best part is in the middle of the button and

Juice from Custer's...

 Exhausted and hungry from his rampage, Midas picked up a bunch of grapes from his newly gilded fruit bowl. But he nearly shattered his teeth, for the fruit had turned to metal in his mouth.

The myth of King Midas...

 he discovers a second gild coffin even more magnificent. It has to be hoisted out of the first, revealing decorations of iridescent blue, green, and red glass inlay.