Paul W. S. Anderson

The way it works in commercials is they come to you with the script, and then you do the visual, you do the storyboards, and you give your vision of it, but it's very much their baby. You just kind of put your polish and sheen on it and your interpretation of it, but it's very much the agency's idea.

English Director

Claire Foy

With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They're distant; you can idealize them. But there's room to have compassion for people and see them as human beings. Just because they're royalty, it doesn't mean they don't love or feel loss or feel pain.

English Actress

Jose Garces

If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that's baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you'll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas.

American Chef

Jeanne Damas

I use M.A.C. Brow Gel to bring out my eyebrows, then I curl my eyelashes every morning and apply M.A.C. Sheen Supreme Lipstick in Venomous Violet with my fingers - I use it as a lip balm multiple times throughout the day because I hate having bare lips.

Author

Chester Brown

Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.

Canadian Cartoonist

David Leavitt

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.

American Novelist

Jessie Buckley

It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.

Irish Musician

Pankaj Mishra

Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.

Indian Novelist

Kailash Kher

Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

Indian Musician

Sheen implies a soft, subtle shine, not a glaring brightness.

Subtle Luminosity

Sheen often describes a smooth surface that reflects light gently.

Surface Texture

Use 'sheen' to describe natural or understated elegance, not extravagance.

Natural Elegance

Use 'sheen' to talk about an impressive quality that makes something stand out.

Attractive Quality

'Sheen' can describe non-physical traits like talent or skill that shine metaphorically.

Non-Physical Sheen

Sheen suggests a perception of high quality or superiority.

Perceived Excellence

 sheen and it's a time machine and everyone in this room has to get into it and you can go backwards you can go forwards you cannot stay where you are and I wonder what you'd choose because I've been asking my friends this question a lot lately and they all want to go back I don't know they want to go back before there were automobiles or

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 ingest a few sand grains to work in the gizzard for the breaking up and the crushing of the seeds but they're able to see the difference in the reflection of a seed versus a sand grain because obviously the sand grains are bit more shiny they're very very small but they do have a sheen to them and so they're

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 but indeed it is a very very blue color and then it's from the carotenoids in the feathers there's also a lot of melon in there which keeps it strong and protects it from the Sun but at different angles of light provide that beautiful blue sheen that you find on the bird and the greater blue eared you

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 plant being called the silver cluster leaf terminalia sericea and it's very characteristic tree that we do you get and why it's called the silver cast leaf is because of that Sheen on the back a hairy color giving it a silver

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 without lots of practice. Trust me on that one. Also, those very sounds tend not to be represented by the characters that are available in European languages. Here's one of the culprits. This is the letter sheen,

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 While the amazing tail goes into the pot, Shane serves up some crayfish sashimi. Look at it. A bit of soy in there. Bit of wasabi. GORDON Nice. Look at that. The sheen on that is incredible, isn't it? Yeah.

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 and as soon as you see that the glaze has melted inside, you can see that faint sheen, you turn the kiln off, and you reach in with these long metal tongs, you grab the pot, and in Japan, this red-hot pot

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 stone statues shone, and goblets glittered. He galloped through his home in a frenzy, handling each item until it took on a lustrous sheen. Soon the palace heaved with gold,

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 The foreboding sheen of an extra-large date. Do you remember wandering as a child through those dark wooden storefront galleries? Where everything was displayed

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 Lord Sun dawns on the day called 7-Monkey, his fingers slowly spreading a rosy sheen