Word: gilt
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...went to the various departments and centers to find people from different backgrounds,” Burch said. “I presented them so that they’re all on the same level and without any gilt frame, so you just see the faces, in their own element...
...posthumous publication of Nabokov’s uncompleted last novel “The Original of Laura” thus comes as an uneasy blessing. There are characteristic moments of stylistic brilliance, but admiring them is a bit like calling attention to the gilt cornices of a house left lacking a door. Roughly the first half of the book is devoted to Flora, a grown Lolita-type, bored with her marriage to a psychologist named Philip Wild and carrying out numerous affairs. Meanwhile, an obsessive former flame is writing an erotic novel about her titled “My Laura...