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And so on, down to the prostitute, the virtuous embellisher of the city, who must display impartiality to all her customers.

The inker (also sometimes credited as the finisher or embellisher) is one of the two line artists in traditional comic book production.

Researcher's Note "Be a storyteller, an embellisher, a liar; they'll call you that and worse anyway."

Torbin suspected the commoner of being a great embellisher, and further questioning proved him correct in that assumption.

If he found Colletta's name - especially as Kirby's embellisher - he would make a point of putting the comic back, or even in a wastebasket.

The person before you," continued Chou-hu, "is a barber and embellisher of pig-tails from the street leading to the Three-tiered Pagoda of Eggs.

Mr. Stein asked would-be students, repeating one of several assertions about Mr. Gore that helped stoke his reputation as a serial embellisher.

Frazier is the Bill Stern of basketball analysis, an embellisher blindly dishing and swishing his Lesser Word Power in 20 Minutes approach to broadcasting.

(In those cases, the penciler was usually credited with "breakdowns" or "layouts," while the inker was credited as the "embellisher" or "finisher".)

Critics seized on this clumsy assertion, made during a March 1999 CNN interview, to lampoon Mr. Gore as a brazen embellisher taking credit for the innovation.

And they say that portraying Mr. Gore as an embellisher helps them raise doubts about Mr. Gore's assaults on Mr. Bush's proposals.

He's not an improviser but an embellisher, adding a trill or a passing tone while clinging to a melody; his band surrounds him with bell-toned electric keyboard chords and wind chimes.

While often a proud, ambitious risk-taker and, occasionally, a self-absorbed embellisher of the truth, he was also a skilled, courageous and resourceful warrior who served his nation with great distinction in two world wars.

Mr. Gore, in an interview today with a television station in Grand Rapids, Mich., sought to deflect accusations that he is an embellisher by turning the tables on Mr. Bush.

We meet Malcolm the serial embellisher, who talked up the extent of his criminal background as a young man in Detroit to better shape his public persona – going so far as to appropriate the criminal histories of others.

When the NSA leaker insisted that low-level employees like him could spy on just about anyone, administration officials and NSA supporters in Congress were quick to call him an embellisher, if not an outright liar.

Put a drop of foundation on the edge of your palm, along with a drop of what Quinn calls an "embellisher," in this case Armani's Fluid Sheer, which is a champagne-colored highlighter that gives a glow to the face.

The scientist, the engineer, the constructive man in every department of work, use the imagination quite as much as the artist; for the imagination is not a decorator and embellisher, as so many appear to think; it is a creator and constructor.

He was indeed, as he had stated, a barber and an embellisher of pig-tails, and for many years he had grown rich and round-bodied on the reputation of being one of the most skilful within his quarter of the city.

But Mr. North is shown as a zealot too busy to devote attention to his wife and children, as an inveterate bootlicker in the presence of his superiors and as a habitual embellisher of his background and exploits.

In the end, said Ms. Cleary, 41, president of a market research company, she could not overcome her discomfort with Vice President Al Gore as "an embellisher" and with Gov. George W. Bush of Texas as "not very smart."

Bill Sienkiewicz, who inked the last five issues of that run, recalled Buscema's pencil work as "the sturdiest foundation an inker or an embellisher could possibly hope to build on, and their beauty was not in their attention to fastidiously rendered minutiae, but instead were marvels of deceptive simplicity."