The church was lavish baroque . . . gilded walls and altars.

The room, a huge arabesque monstrosity with golden ceilings and gilded walls, was meant to resemble a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Lake Las Vegas Resort.

Smoke filtered through tiny openings in the gilded walls.

He was smiling as he turned into the foyer with its gilded walls and sweeping marble staircase.

He has created a fevered dream of a restaurant, with dense fabrics, opulent colors, lacquered woodwork and jeweled, gilded walls decorated in Klimt's most flamboyant manner.

His mind roved with lightning speed through rooms of state with gilded walls and soaring arched ceilings, through banquet halls and council-chambers, through corridors wide as plazas.

Looming over it, mounted on a vast gilded wall, was the circular U.N. logo梩he two wheatlike garlands beneath a stylized view of the globe.

The outbursts of the splendid Met chorus during the famous "Anvil Chorus" stirred the dust from the house's gilded walls.

Huge, jewel-paned windows in the walls and ceiling let in the natural blue light of the Ankharan moon, making the gilded wall murals spark and glisten.

The sophistication and manners observed inside the Winter Palace were greatly at odds with the grim reality of life outside its externally gilded walls.