Are you approaching your NBC drama, "The Gilded Age," differently for an American audience?
We have seen them standing in the middle of a warm room, and adorned with all sorts of beautiful things,—honey cakes, gilded apples, playthings, and many hundreds of wax tapers.
" Ceilings are painted plaster, which have been gilded with 24ct gold leaf, while the chandeliers feature £100 worth of Swarovski crystals.
While buyers should brace for another year of high-stakes bidding wars, residents of the city's far-flung neighborhoods (I'm talking about you, Grand Concourse) should be ready for an onslaught of prospective residents seeking bargains — bargains, that is, relative to the gilded ZIP codes that are out of the reach of most mortals.
Sunlight from the window gilded her shoulder-length blonde hair.
" Three short years went by,and a day came when the man sat shivering in a mean garret;and he was gaunt and wan and hollow-eyed,and clothed in rags;and he was gnawing a dry crust and mumbling:"Curse all the world's gifts for mockeries and gilded lies!
3 The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
" Three short years went by, and a day came when the man sat shivering in a mean garret; and he was gaunt and wan and hollow-eyed, and clothed in rags; and he was gnawing a dry crust and mumbling:"Curse all the world's gifts for mockeries and gilded lies!
He drew it quickly out again, but saw that it was quite gilded, and whatsoever pains he took to wash the gold off again, all was to no purpose.
" And so the whole work disappeared; but the candles round about in the church became great bouquets, and the gilded stars on the ceiling of the church sent out long, clear beams, and the organ played of itself.
I would imagine myself riding along in a gilded coach, with footmen in fine livery.
"The family is extinct, the house has been pulled down, and where it stood is now the stately poultry-house, with gilded weathercocks, and the old Poultry Meg.
Incense floated through the lofty painted and gilded aisles, where a solemn twilight reigned.
They look toward the castle, now so still and empty, but where formerly there were torch dances in the gilded halls; they look at the balcony from which King Christian so often gazed out over the 'court bridge' and down the narrow court-bridge street to his dovelet, the little Dutch girl he brought from the town of Bergen.
It had carved wood-work, like the Norwegian church; marble pillars, like the Grecian temple; bells in every story; and was crowned with cupolas, green and gilded, like those of the Kremlin of the Czar.
"He shall sing in the church, and stand among the beautiful gilded angels who are like him!
Her mother is the highborn, academy-trained emigrant' s daughter, with gilded rococo reminiscences.
Then the noble lady drove by towards the baron's mansion with her three daughters, in a gilded carriage drawn by six horses.
One had contained a gilded carriage and noble horses, and the other beautiful clothes; all of these Christina would now have in her new home at Copenhagen.
Rouge-pots, scent-boxes, and old cards, so large and so richly gilded, that none are ever seen like them in these days.
