Elaborately Sentence Examples

The interior is elaborately decorated.

The great hall, with elaborately carved music-gallery, is mainly the work of the first earl.

They range from rude menhirs a few feet high to elaborately sculptured monoliths of too ft.

In this case the central court is roofed over, and has an octagon lantern in the centre; the recesses are covered with horizontal ceilings carried on great beams, the whole being elaborately carved, coloured and gilded; the tomb is covered with the later type of dome, built in stone, and elaborately carved outside with delicate conventional patterns in relief.

In Hachiroemons time and during the twenty years following the date of his innovation, many beautiful examples of elaborately decorated Kutani porcelain were produced.

Fragments of Norman work areleft; the interior is elaborately adorned with sculptures and stained glass.

The houses are generally well and elaborately made, but nearly all the ornamentation is put on the inside of the roof.

The exterior and interior are elaborately adorned with sculptures.

On the other hand, he is wholly without originality, and his poetry, though free from glaring defects, is artificial and elaborately dull.

The elaborately carved chair of the lieutenant-governor in the senate chamber, made of wood from the historic Charter Oak, and the original charter of 1662 (or its duplicate of the same date) are preserved in a special vault in the Connecticut state library.

The hilts were often elaborately ornamented and sometimes these weapons were of considerable value.

Some of the quaint old houses which have escaped the numerous fires that have visited the town are elaborately adorned with wood-carving.

The Public Library building is Romanesque and elaborately ornamented; the building was presented to the city by James P. Baxter; in the library is the statue, by Benjamin Paul Akers (1825-1861), of the dead pearl-diver, well known from Hawthorne's description in The Marble Faun.

The sesqui-centennial of Pittsburgh, elaborately observed in 1908, marked the beginning of a new period of corporate, educational, social and material development.

Among these, in Africa, South America, Australia and so forth, where clothing is at a minimum, the men are always more elaborately ornamented than the women.

The question was once more elaborately argued in May 1899 before an informal tribunal consisting of the archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Temple) and the archbishop of York (Dr. Maclagan), at Lambeth Palace.

These, now almost sixty in number (excluding seals), are all in a pictographic character which employed symbols somewhat elaborately depicted in relief, but reduced to conventional and " shorthand " representations in the incised texts.

In the north-east corner of the city is the Nestorian church which was noted by Marco Polo, the façade being " elaborately carved and the gates covered with elegantly wrought iron."

Both gateways and railing are elaborately covered with bas-reliefs and inscriptions.

Thus the diocese, hitherto a simple unit, became an elaborately articulated whole.

Guadalajara is an episcopal see, and its cathedral, built between 1571 and 1618, is one of the largest and most elaborately decorated churches in Mexico.

Hobson, in John Ruskin, Social Reformer (2nd ed., 1899), has elaborately discussed his social and economic teaching, and claims him as "the greatest social teacher of his age."

Some of the larger canoes are ornamented with rude carving; and in some islands they are somewhat elaborately decorated with inlaid mother-of-pearl.

The Pulmonata are, like the other Euthyneura, hermaphrodite, with elaborately developed copulatory organs and accessory glands.

In 1827 Wagler brought out the first part of a Systema avium, in this form never completed, consisting of forty-nine detached monographs of as many genera, the species of which are most elaborately described.

Both pillars and cross-bars were elaborately carved in bas-relief, and most of them bore inscriptions giving either the name of the donor, or the subject of the bas-relief, or both.

This investigation was first published in 1824 and in abstruse and difficult form, and afterwards (1826) more elaborately in the first volume of Crelle's Journal.

He occupied his leisure by writing a rhymed translation of the Odes of Horace, and preparing an elaborately annotated edition of Butler's Analogy and Sermons.

The scene represents St George and the Princess after the conquest of the Dragon, with accessory figures, the sea, a mountainous landscape and an elaborately painted city in the background.

Most of the artists, whose main work was the designing of broadsheets, produced elaborately illustrated books; and this series includes specimens of printing in colors from wood-blocks, which for technique have never been excelled.

The town hall, which took ten years to build (1525-1535), has after that of Louvain the most elaborately decorated facade in Belgium.

The elaborately carved choir is also enclosed by tumbago railings made in Macao, weighing 26 tons.

Two richly and elaborately carved chimney-pieces in the hotel de ville merit special notice.

It is preceded by a rich portal in the Gothic style with elaborately carved doors, and is flanked on the north by an uncompleted tower.

It was formerly the church of a Cistercian nunnery, and in modern times has been elaborately restored.

This process was, moreover, hastened by the substitution of costly and elaborately embroidered materials for the simple stuffs of which the vestment had originally been composed; for, as it became heavier and stiffer, it necessarily had to be made smaller.

Giovanni Fuorcivitus (so called because it was outside the line of the earliest, pentagonal, enceinte of the middle ages), with one of the long sides elaborately adorned with small arcades in the Pisan style, in black and white marble, also with sculpture by Gruamons (1162) on the facade.

At the main entrance is a beautiful gateway (of elaborately wrought brown stone), 142 ft.

The massive and elaborately ornamented cathedral was built in the Renaissance style between 1746 and 1774; a Dominican church in Subtiaba is little less striking.

The excretory system is highly developed; the larger collecting ducts are elaborately looped and open posteriorly by a single terminal aperture.

The pottery accompanying the remains is often elaborately ornamented, and the mound builders were evidently possessed of a higher development of taste and skill than is evinced by any of the modern aboriginal races, by whom the mounds and their contents are regarded as utterly mysterious.

There is in the museum at Basel a wood-block of St Jerome executed by him and elaborately signed on the back with his name.

A pavilion projects into the court at each extremity, with filigree walls and light domed roof, elaborately ornamented.

This settlement was made in 1788, on an elaborately laid out town site, and was named New Madrid by its founder, Colonel George Morgan (1742-1810), 1 who, late in 1787, had received a grant of a large tract of land on the right bank of the Mississippi river, below the mouth of the Ohio, from Don Diego de Gardoqui, Spanish minister to the United States.

The antiquities are the Bell Tower, with a huge bronze bell dated 1468, a marble pagoda elaborately carved, but not of Korean workmanship, seven centuries old, and a "Turtle-Stone" of about the same date.

He found that while the front lines had been elaborately fortified, in various sectors the reserve lines which he had indicated as the " battle positions " were almost untouched, and parts of the front line were unsuitable for prolonged resistance.

Within the town the arcades (or Lauben) on either side of the main street, and the numerous elaborately ornamented fountains attract the eye, as well as the two remaining towers that formerly stood on the old walls but are now in the centre of the town; the Zeitglockenthurm (famous for its singular 16th- century clock, with its mechanical contrivances, set in motion when the hour strikes) and the Kdfichthurm.

At Shiraz it is often of fine cotton, and elaborately ornamented with black embroidery.

All three are Gothic edifices and are notable for their elaborately carved doorways, in which free play has been given to the exuberant fancy of the Gothic style, and all three enshrine valuable treasures of art.

In dealing with atheism Cudworth's method is to marshal the atheistic arguments elaborately, so elaborately that Dryden remarked "he has raised such objections against the being of a God and Providence that many think he has not answered them"; then in his last chapter, which by itself is as long as an ordinary treatise, he confutes them with all the reasons that his reading could supply.

The elevations and platforms of the mountain are covered with elaborately sculptured shrines, temples and tombs.

The men invariably, wear an onstarched shirt of cotton, sewn with white silk, often, particularly in the south of Persia, elaborately embroidered about the neck.

Juvenal can paint great historical pictures in all their detail - as in the famous representation of the fall of Sejanus; he can describe a character elaborately or hit it off with a single stroke.

The prefecture occupies the buildings of the famous abbey of St Aubin; in its courtyard are elaborately sculptured arcades of the 11 th and 12th centuries, from which period dates the tower, the only survival of the splendid abbeychurch.

The Friedrichsbau, which is decorated with statues of the rulers of the Palatinate, was elaborately restored and rendered habitable between 1897 and 1903.

To understand this and other anomalies it is necessary to bear in mind that the church is not, like the established Protestant churches of Germany, an elaborately organized state department, nor is it a single corporation with power to regulate its internal polity.

This latter contains actually 540 columns, most of them elaborately carved, arranged in twenty rows.

Several of the varieties are cut into gems and ornaments, balance weights, pivot supports for delicate instruments, agate mortars, &c.; or used for engraving, for instance, cameos and the elaborately carved crystal vases of ancient and medieval times.

In the native bazaar the houses rise three or four storeys in height, with elaborately carved pillars and front work.

Its lofty clerestoried nave has an elaborately carved timber roof, and the south porch, though repaired in 1612, preserves its Norman mouldings.

The wonderful mosaics, the wooden roof, elaborately fretted and painted, and the marble incrustation of the lower part of the walls and the floor are very fine.

Few military expeditions have been more elaborately organized, or have achieved a more brilliant success.

Planck's views were elaborately developed, but his method of exposition told heavily against their acceptance.

They knew well that the centre of gravity in their own belief lay elsewhere than in the elaborately detailed scheme of relations within the Godhead or in the Theanthropic person.

Thus, Hugo of St Victor (1077-1141) argues that all love is necessarily so far " interested " that it involves a desire for union with the beloved; and since eternal happiness consists in this union, it cannot truly be desired apart from God; while Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153) more elaborately distinguishes four stages by which the soul is gradually led from (I) merely selfregarding desire for God's aid in distress, to (2) love him for his loving-kindness to it, then also (3) for his absolute goodness, until (4) in rare moments this love for himself alone becomes the sole all-absorbing affection.

He shows elaborately how the pleasures and pains of " imagination, ambition, self-interest, sympathy, theopathy, and the moral sense " are developed out of the elementary pleasures and pains of sensation; by the coalescence into really complex but apparently single ideas of the " miniatures " or faint feelings which the repetition of sensations contemporaneously or in immediate succession tends to produce in cohering groups.

On the contrary, he tries to prove elaborately that they (as well as the pleasures of imagination, ambition, self-interest) cannot be made an object of primary pursuit without a loss of happiness on the whole - one of his arguments being that these pleasures occur earlier in time, and " that which is prior in the order of nature is always less perfect than that which is posterior."

They occupy the extreme east limits of Papuan territory and are usually classified as Melanesians; but they are physically superior to the pure examples of that race, combining their dark colour, harsh hirsute skin, crisp hair, which is bleached with lime and worn in an elaborately trained mop, and muscular limbs, with the handsome features and well proportioned bodies of the Polynesians.

Dionysius, in reply, admits that Demosthenes does at times depart from simplicity, - that his style is sometimes elaborately ornate and remote from the ordinary usage.

Their religion had its fine lucid intervals, but their mythology and ritual were little better than savage ideas, elaborately worked up by the imagination of a cruel and superstitious priesthood.

Eliduc is more elaborately planned than any of these, and the action is divided between Exeter and Brittany.

It was flat, square or round, sometimes with edges that could be turned up or down according to convenience, and was often elaborately decorated.

The decoration of some of the rooms is gorgeous, the walls being covered in part with mosaics and in part with carved work, while the ceilings are rich in arabesque ornaments, elaborately gilt.

The outer surfaces of the walls are usually divided by a horizontal moulding into two unequal zones, the lower one plain with a band of sculptured ornaments at the base, and the upper elaborately sculptured.

The buildings resemble each other in the arrangement of their rooms, and their elaborately ornamented facades face inwards upon the court.

After that, more elaborately he rises on the loftier buskin of Tragedy... .

The first story consists of two large whitewashed bedrooms with stone chimney-pieces, less elaborately carved than those in the rooms beneath.

The roof in both nave and aisle has open painted panels elaborately decorated in blue and studded with gilded bosses.

Set into the eastern corner is the sacred stone, covered by an elaborately embroidered black drape.

October's Object of the month is a large sideboard, elaborately carved with scenes from Scotland's past.

Geoffrey Swindell, whose many interests range from the beach to science fiction, produces small elaborately finished porcelain vases.

Yet even now Sigismund, at the head of his Magyars, thrice (1422-1424, 1426-1427, and 1430-1431) encountered the Turks, not ingloriously, in the open field, till, recognizing that Hungary must thenceforth rely entirely on her own resources in any future struggle with Islam, he elaborately fortified the whole southern frontier, and converted the little fort of Nandorfehervar, later Belgrade, at the junction of the Danube and Save, into an enormous first-class fortress, which proved strong enough to repel all the attacks of the Turks for more than a century.

Continued fractions, one of the earliest examples of which is Lord Brouncker's expression for the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle (see Circle), were elaborately discussed by John Wallis and Leonhard Euler; the convergency of series treated by Newton, Euler and the Bernoullis; the binomial theorem, due originally to Newton and subsequently expanded by Euler and others, was used by Joseph Louis Lagrange as the basis of his Calcul des Fonctions.

In the north-east corner of the city is the Nestorian church which was noted by Marco Polo, the façade being " elaborately carved and the gates covered with elegantly wrought iron."

One of the finest buildings is the modern Jain temple of Hathi Singh outside the Delhi gate, which was built only in 1848, and is a standing monument to the endurance of Jain architectural art The external porch, between two circular towers, is of great magnificence, most elaborately ornamented, and leads to an outer court, with sixteen cells on either side.

The style is Gothic, very elaborately decorated, but it shows many peculiarities, for the work was continued through several centuries and after many designs by many masters, notably by Amadeo, who carried out the octagonal cupola (the pinnacle of which dates from 1774), and by Tibaldi, who laid down the pavement and designed a baroque facade.

These are protected at frequent intervals by towers, and can be entered only by two gates, one to the east, the other to the west, both of which are themselves elaborately fortified (see Gate).

No clearer proof could be desired of the utterly uncritical spirit of the age in which the Hexateuch got its present form than that this detailed account should be immediately followed by two short paragraphs in palpable contradiction of the whole plan of camp and march so elaborately worked out in the preceding narrative.

Thus, in the Parmenides, with the paradox of likeness and unlikeness for his text, he inquires how far the cur14nt theories of being (his own included) are capable of providing, not only for knowledge, but also for predication, and in the concluding sentence he suggests that, as likeness and unlikeness, greatness and smallness, &c., are relations, the initial paradox is no longer paradoxical; while in the Sophist, Zeno's doctrine having been shown to be fatal to reason, thought, speech and utterance, the mutual Koevwvia of Elan which are not abra KaO' abra is elaborately demonstrated.

October 's Object of the month is a large sideboard, elaborately carved with scenes from Scotland 's past.

The Regal estate agents, in a 17th-century merchant 's house opposite the Spar has elaborately swagged curtains.

Hanging up fern plants on a front porch makes a home lookwelcoming without being too elaborately decorated.

Hanging up fern plants on a front porch makes a home look welcoming without being too elaborately decorated.

Also, you'll probably want to keep a price range in mind - from charmingly homemade to elaborately store bought, the sky's the limit with holiday ideas you can use to always remember the very first Christmas of your special little someone.

They can be elaborately carved and decorated, or spare and streamlined.

These items include elaborately decorated skulls and skeletons.

What could be more traditional than a holiday portrait in front of an elaborately decorated Christmas tree?

Scrapbookers often dream of elaborately embellished pages, but for most, fast and easy scrapbooking is the order of the day.

Traditional civil ceremonies are followed by dining and dancing in the property's elaborately designed Mizner Center.

It's considered improper etiquette to have elaborately engraved cards printed up, as the recipient can become confused as to whether it's an announcement or invitation.

Some candles are intricately carved and elaborately beaded, while others are more simplistic.

From the traditional kwa or qi pao to the bridal crown, each item is elaborately decorated with a phoenix and dragon embroidered on red material.

Uchikake are elaborately patterned wedding kimonos that are a bright red or other color, such as green, yellow, or purple.

Keep in mind that cakes for Halloween don't have to be elaborately decorated or heaped with colorful frosting.

These cake pans make it easy to prepare elaborately shaped cakes, but there's a greater chance your cakes will turn out successfully if you keep a few tips in mind.

While you can certainly purchase an elaborately designed dress at a local department store or online, your child may want something that is more unique.

Individual claddagh designs can vary from simple, plain styles to elaborately detailed pieces, and there is just as much variety in the different types of claddagh silver bracelets.

It's the more elaborately styled variations that lend themselves better to dressy occasions.

Manufactured by The Madame Alexander Doll Company, the Kitten Doll was meant to be used as a play doll and was less expensive than the more elaborately designed and dressed display dolls sold by the company.

For an outdoor day wedding, or if as the bride you're the only one that wants her hair to be elaborately styled, having the bridesmaids sport waves will make your bridal party look polished and not overdone.

These elaborately priced jeans are designed to accentuate your curves and give you all the style you desire while offering the comfort of traditional maternity wear.

It looked close to a wedding dress with its white lace and elaborately ruched skirt embroidered with gold bullion.

Whether a live evergreen or a modern synthetic version, the tree is elaborately festooned with lights, ornaments and garlands.

A Cinco de Mayo blouse is elaborately ruffled at the neck and has short or long full, ruffled sleeves.

Many promise rings bear a striking resemblance to popular engagement rings such as diamond solitaire engagement rings or more elaborately accented styles.

Unless the band of the ring is elaborately engraved, it's usually very easy for a jeweler to resize the ring for you.

While it's far simpler than a pave-set diamond band or an elaborately engraved design, it's also quite a bit fancier than a plain gold band or a simple solitaire.

For example, an elaborately knotted Celtic design done in gold and platinum conveys an air of elegance and refinement, while a textured or hammered swirl can emit more casual vibes.

Whether you love simple, modern jewelry or elaborately engraved designs, there's a wide wedding band perfect for you.

No matter how elaborately you decorate your child's birthday cake, it will only be unforgettable if it's something your child gets excited about.

The Malecon - This downtown promenade is elaborately decorated with public art from one end to the other.

These plans are elaborately illustrated, but keep in mind that an actual business plan doesn't need full color graphics or photos.

Step shows are elaborate performances in which sororities and fraternities create elaborately choreographed routines that feature a combination of clapping, stomping, and chanting.

In the most general sense, lingerie is any type of woman's undergarment, from plain underwear and cotton nightgowns, to elaborately seductive lace bras, panties, and shifts.

Remember, a cake can serve as your centerpiece as well as your dessert so feel free to make or order an elaborately decorated cake.

Of course, if you want to go all-out for a very special birthday celebration, the same bakers who make wedding cakes also make birthday cakes, which are made with the same recipes but are smaller and less elaborately decorated.

Of course, if you want a more elaborately decorated area, consider visiting a rental store in your area that stocks party supplies, or you could always find lots of cute beach themed items online at Oriental Trading Company.

He only goes to work at his job in an elaborately constructed virtual reality, much like the Trek franchise's holodecks.

In this series, the computer had a female digitized voice which interacted with the captain and crew much more elaborately than in the earlier series.

In the Armenian and Coptic rites the vestment is often elaborately embroidered; in the other rites the only ornament is a cross high in the middle of the back, save in the case of bishops of the Orthodox Church, whose sticharia are ornamented with two vertical red stripes (7rorayof, " rivers").

Passing now to the later schoolmen, a bare mention must be made of Thomas Aquinas, who elaborately argues for the absolute creation of the world out of nothing, and of Albertus Magnus, who reasons against the Aristotelian idea of the past eternity of the world.

The numerous objections made by eminent scholars in past centuries to the ascription of these twenty-five canons to the synod in encaeniis have been elaborately stated and probably refuted by Hefele.

It is probable that the face, neck, arms and feet were of ivory, while the rest of the figure was draped in gold, Like the Olympian Zeus of Pheidias, Hera was seated on an elaborately decorated throne, holding in her left hand the sceptre, surmounted in her case by the cuckoo (as that of Zeus had an eagle), and in her right, instead of an elaborate figure of Victory (such as the Athena Parthenos and the Olympian Zeus held), simply a pomegranate.

He himself was elaborately educated at Caen, at Paris, at Heidelberg and at Basel.

The grand old patrician houses of the days of its Hanseatic glory, with their lofty and often elaborately ornamented gables and their balconied windows, are the delight of the visitor to the town.

Among them may be mentioned those illustrated by Gustave Dore, first on a small scale (1854), afterwards more elaborately (1870); that of the Collection Didot by Burgaud des Marets and Rathery (1857 and later); the Bibliotheque Elzevirienne edition by MM.

In the centre was the serai, occupied by the king and his retinue, with an extension towards the north, opening on a large inner court, containing the public reception rooms, elaborately decorated with sculptures and historical inscriptions, representing scenes of hunting, worship, feasts, battles, and the like.

There is a wide range of engagement ring designs available, from three stone rings and classic solitaires to elaborately styled art deco and vintage designs with swirls, filigree, and other distinctive accents.

Birds can be designed easily by making small V shapes for the body, or, for the more experienced, birds can be styled more elaborately with intricate wing designs.