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  • How his art's authority as a disrupter of artistic norms survives the burnishment his works will now receive from the smoothest, most powerful art operation in the world will be something to watch.

    How Will the Future Judge Him? Richard B. Woodward 2012

  • It did not glitter in gaudy burnishment, as does our aquarium gold-fish, for example, but gleamed and melted and glowed as though fresh from the mould.

    The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

  • It did not glitter in gaudy burnishment, as does our aquarium gold-fish, for example, but gleamed and melted and glowed as though fresh from the mould.

    The Mountains 1904

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