No question, Toyota , General Electric and BP have burnished their images by publicly hugging trees.
It's a lush, cinematic rock suite, with 11 songs burnished to a lustrous shade of noir.
It's as if an Italian neo-realist drama had been burnished to a feel-good glow.
He burnished his reputation as a Republican wordsmith working for Dan Coats, a former senator for Indiana.
McCain burnished his image as a crossover candidate, while Giuliani tried to convince the party's conservative base.
Ms. Callas's legendary status (which seems only to increase with the years) has certainly burnished this recording's reputation.
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Mr Bush duly burnished this reputation for such generalship later in the week with a speech on nuclear proliferation.
But open the door this morning and behold the shiny recent German exports, burnished by strong US demand.
Dolan's credentials as upholder of the faith have been especially burnished by the bishops' ongoing conflicts with President Barack Obama.
Google has adroitly developed its technology, burnished its brand and captured public imagination with extensive road testing of its driverless fleet.
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Among Republicans, time has burnished Reagan's place in the pantheon of presidents.
The balustrades of the stairs are of burnished, darker-green terra cotta with Shakespearean heads trapped in newel posts of luxuriant, sinuous art nouveau foliage.
Green pickles, burnished Florida oranges, rich yellow cheeses, ruby red grapefruit juice and rainbow hued fruit yogurts are among our most typical everyday staples.
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Konyukhov says that Russia's snow-burnished waterways most resemble those of Canada, which is a popular sailing destination -- particularly among the Nordic and Japanese.
Lustrous burnished gold in colour, and slightly hazy (I emptied every last drop into the glass), it has a big floral aroma, slightly perfumey, almost honeyed.
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Chief among these is the big improvement in drinks options, particularly for those who order the updated spin on bottle service available in the restaurant's burnished Library bar.
It is punctuated by successive bands of matte and burnished gold, stylized four-petal molded flowers, and gilded beading, all of which demanded hours of painstaking hand application.
Inside, the cockpit is clearly oriented toward the driver, with a racing-inspired three-spoke steering wheel, a steel bar and metal cage for the shifter, and burnished metal flourishes throughout.
Ten years earlier, Bill Clinton, then a presidential candidate, had burnished his law-and-order credentials by letting the execution of a retarded man go ahead in Arkansas, where he was governor.
Lord Turner, who is due to testify in front of MPs on July 16th, may be one of the few people to come out of the LIBOR drama with his reputation burnished.
Morgan Stanley has a white shoe, burnished-mahogany image as an adviser to major corporations and the super rich, while Dean Witter was best known for its retail brokerage that appealed to Main Street investors.
Kostritzky burnished her reputation for having a gift with children at the School of American Ballet, the in-house school for the New York City Ballet, where she taught more than 300 students in 18 years.
Now the smallest working distillery in Speyside, visitors can see the traditional dunnage warehouse (where the whiskys are stored to mature), the mash tun, the burnished copper stills and the cask signed by Prince Charles.
Keri Alkema, the only returning singer in the cast (she was an impressive Donna Elvira in the company's "Don Giovanni" in 2009) brings a burnished intensity and clean coloratura to Amaltea, Faraone's wife and an Israelite sympathizer.
Mr. Sanborn starts with a deep, burnished tone (more like his customary model, Hank Crawford, than Desmond) and Mr. James interjects his part of the melody in a light, airy fashion that suggests a Desmondian approach to the piano.
For as long as I can remember I have kept a stack of cards on my desk, and I am hard pressed to think of anything that has burnished my brand more than sending hand written thank you notes.
Mr. HARRIS: Well, look, if you live long enough, almost everybody can get a little bit of a burnished, warm, fuzzy reputation, and we saw this in some of the obituaries, sort of, you know, Jesse Helms, pillar of conservatism.
Small wonder, given the personnel changes and shift in repertoire, that the orchestra has bit by bit been losing the sheer polish and uniquely burnished tone in the classical and romantic repertoire that von Karajan fostered so assiduously for over three decades.
He has burnished his reputation lately by breaking up an international vitamin cartel, being called in by a federal judge to handle a class action against Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses, and representing Napster in its fight against the record companies over copyright infringement.
Mr. CHRISTA BELL (Poet): Because your eyes remind me of watermelon rinds scraped clean of their meat by narrow teeth because today your skin is not burnished honey but a bitter herb chew to hold the grief at bay, because your lips are the purple grapes of (unintelligible).
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