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Example sentences for "elaboration"

Lexicographically close words:
elaborated; elaborately; elaborateness; elaborates; elaborating; elaborations; elaborative; elan; eland; elands
  1. Marred here and there perhaps by over-elaboration and ornament, the book nevertheless remains a masterpiece.

  2. It is possible to obscure the grand and massive lines of a building by an over-elaboration of detail.

  3. An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.

  4. The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.

  5. Nyâya than an elaboration of the Buddhist principles.

  6. With the Gothic period the use of intersecting, and as a result of pointed arches, was introduced into vaulting, and vaults went on increasing in complexity and elaboration till the Tudor period, when fan-vaulting was employed.

  7. Elaboration and simplicity were both so well known to the Gothic architect that it is difficult to say that either of these qualities belongs exclusively to his work.

  8. Simplicity and elaboration are both compatible with Renaissance design; the former distinguishes the earlier and purer examples of the style, the latter those more recent and more grandiose.

  9. A tendency toward elaboration of ornament accompanies the development of form.

  10. Statuettes of men and women and of a variety of anthropomorphic figures of all degrees of elaboration abound.

  11. In the elaboration of handles, the use made of animal forms is perhaps the most notable feature.

  12. A high degree of elaboration in art products results in many cases from their connection with superstitious usages.

  13. The elaboration in these circular inclosures is very remarkable, as will be seen by reference to the three examples given in Figs.

  14. The great elaboration observed in some examples suggests the idea that perhaps they were devoted exclusively to the preparation of material (meal or other substances) intended for sacred uses.

  15. An elaboration of carving on grandfather clock cases as a rule is to be regarded with suspicion.

  16. The elaboration of enrichment, while executed in a perfectly harmonious manner, should convey a lesson to the student of furniture.

  17. The student must have acquired thoroughly the highest degree of elaboration possible in order that he may be able to judge what is proper and effective in any given case.

  18. This elaboration of particulars is somewhat out of fashion.

  19. Delivered one by one at intervals, to a large, cultivated, and critical audience, they both demanded and admitted of special elaboration of the style.

  20. He called it the Ars Magna, and devoted his whole life to its elaboration in theory and practice.

  21. The elaboration itself will have to be quite different from that of his own.

  22. To secure thus the greatest inner fullness of the programme, seemed indeed the most important task in the elaboration of the ground-plan.

  23. The multiple coil system is still used to a large extent, but an elaboration of it will be found on many of the modern cars.

  24. In order to feel there must be consciousness, and, so far as our evidence goes, it appears that consciousness only arises when a nerve-centre attains to some such degree of complexity and elaboration as are to be met with in the brain.

  25. One remarkable illustration is given by Fiske, as an elaboration of an example cited by Darwin.

  26. For these reasons a survey of the various members of the order of primates must deal largely with the progressive elaboration of the brain and the entailed effects of this enlargement.

  27. The whole was merely an elaboration of the prehistoric method of sepulture.

  28. We do not find the process of mummification reaching any degree of elaboration until the period of the New Kingdom.

  29. But such refinements of analysis, after all, cannot hide the fact that certain forms of higher intellection involve a pretty definite collocation and elaboration of special sensations.

  30. Primitive man is not, however, concerned with the elaboration of theories; nor is he consumed with vague 'spiritual yearnings.

  31. And the subsequent history of society has been such that scientific sociology is very largely the study of the growth and elaboration of an essentially psychical environment.

  32. To the mind of the barbarian, the elaboration and utilisation of what is afforded by inert nature is activity on quite a different plane from his dealings with "animate" things and forces.

  33. Manners, we are told, are in part an elaboration of gesture, and in part they are symbolical and conventionalised survivals representing former acts of dominance or of personal service or of personal contact.

  34. The proximate end of innovation and elaboration has been the higher effectiveness of the new departure in point of beauty or of expressiveness.

  35. The canons of decent life are an elaboration of the principle of invidious comparison, and they accordingly act consistently to inhibit all non-invidious effort and to inculcate the self-regarding attitude.

  36. This is not the place in which to discuss Darwin's theory of heredity nor its subsequent elaboration and amplification by his contemporaries or successors.

  37. Elaboration and fuss have gone in favour of a simplicity of service based on scientific facts; the influence of the trained worker has to some extent permeated the untrained service of home nursing.

  38. This fact, coupled with the almost absurd over-elaboration of the details of serving, incline me to believe that in the mediaeval castle servants were numerous and not overworked.

  39. She washed her face with unwonted elaboration before she went to bed.

  40. He loved ornament, and there is a touch of elaboration in his design, as though attempting to shake off the severe formality of the Brothers Adam style of design, and he strongly loved colour.

  41. I may here add that the censure said to have been directed against Betterton for the introduction of scenery is the prototype of that cry, which we hear so often nowadays, against over-elaboration in the arrangements of the stage.

  42. There have always been critics who regarded care and elaboration in the mounting of plays as destructive of the real spirit of the actor's art.

  43. He spoke freely and conversationally in his lectures, and one could almost assist at the elaboration of his thoughts.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elaboration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.