burnish

• “There is more burnish, however, on the outside than sterling silver in substance.” But this was as much as he would say, at least while President AT THE END of the first week in November, Adams's long wait for news from France ended. —  John Adams by David McCullough
• In the vivid red of the fresh berries, in the pebbled skin of an emerald lime, in the bright colors of things made to be transitory, you see the same loveliness you find in your own delicate flesh, the lines fanned around your eyes charming like the burnish of plums, your life like all the other fragile organics, your soft hand hovering over the succulent apple, you reach for it, already transforming. —  APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed
• - Canada's Environment Minister Jim Prentice used a two-day visit to Washington to burnish Canada's image as a reliable partner in developing clean energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, after a barrage of criticisms from environmentalists. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• To Franck's Sonata For Violin & Piano in A, Perlman also wrested an ever so slightly contemporary burnish to a piece that lies just on the edge of romanticism and modernism. —  Austin360 - XL Headlines
• Now it's trying to burnish its "green" credentials. —  Catholic Online > Daily Readings

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