Modern ornamentation is a burlesque of the beautiful, as pitiful as it is costly. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan] Reference
Writes the author: Manners, here, impose passivity and constraint; ornamentation is taken care of by the oddity of our being served dinner at all in such circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Rituals of Dinner] Reference
Gold ornamentation is to be seen in the rafter work and the entire length of tunnel has 33,345,567,863,426,875,678 stained wooden steps of which five are in need of repair. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: March 9, 2003 - March 15, 2003 Archives] Reference
The glossator, Aldred, states that the ornamentation was the work of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
The ornamentation, which is in mother-of-pearl and vermilion, is set on. From Wordnik.com. [The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise] Reference
These are worn by both sexes and are so worn for the sake of convenience as much as with the idea of ornamentation, for the Negrito has no pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Negritos of Zambales] Reference
The reason for the divergence of drawing and ornament is doubtless the original motive of ornamentation, which is found in the clan or totem ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
'' I understand that you have no ornamentation which is not symbolic. From Wordnik.com. [do you ever read writing?] Reference
The ornamentation is rich and original. From Wordnik.com. [Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893] Reference
We are all familiar with the kind of ornamentation on clothes called Van Dyck -- pointed lace, or trimmings -- and pointed beards. From Wordnik.com. [Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People] Reference
The former kind of ornamentation is found also in Lower Chaldaea, and has been already represented; the latter is peculiar to this building. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
The altars and the sarcophagi in the crypt present beautiful specimens of the interlaced ornamentation which is characteristic of Irish art. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
The volumes in the library were all handsomely bound; mostly in red morocco, and tooled with a distinctive kind of ornamentation, which has since been known as the Harleian Style. From Wordnik.com. [English Book Collectors] Reference
"ornamentation" and mutilation to a critical examination we find in nearly every case that they are either not at all or only indirectly. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference
A species of hard pottery used in building; ornamentation. From Wordnik.com. [Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois] Reference
Only the finished artists should be invited to its ornamentation. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
This is used upon almost everything for which ornamentation is required, such as. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
I'm not a great improviser on the baroque style but all the ornamentation is mine. From Wordnik.com. [David Russell: Of Guitars and Pingpong Balls] Reference
It ought not to receive in the way of ornamentation any thing which is not a work of art. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Each pen has themed decorations including flowers, Christmas, Easter and Halloween ornamentation. From Wordnik.com. [Recall alert: CPSC pulls lead-tainted teeth and pens] Reference
Modernist houses, with their clean lines and lack of ornamentation, seem to defy easy commercialization. From Wordnik.com. [People Who Buy Glass Houses] Reference
It is of brick, four stories in height, thoroughly fire-proof, simple in design, and tasteful in ornamentation. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
This form of ornamentation, so much used by Signorelli in these frescoes, adds greatly to their decorative beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
The columns surrounding these rooms were profusely decorated with glass ornamentation, and the effect was startling. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Alexandria strictly interdicted the use of gems for personal ornamentation, with evident allusion to the Abraxas stones. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Gold ornamentation requires heated tools, and in the hands of a practised finisher beautiful designs can be worked out with quite. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
The boat houses were being decorated, and in some cases elaborate schemes of ornamentation were under way for the boats themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
The foundation or back of this had dissolved into dust, but careful unwrapping of the cerements revealed the priceless ornamentation. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
But it involves being able to kind of slide between notes, and this ornamentation is kind of - like you won't play a note directly on it. From Wordnik.com. [Saxophone Stylings, With A South-Asian Flair] Reference
To answer that, evolutionary biologists followed bird flocks for generations and measured how reliably males inherit their father's ornamentation. From Wordnik.com. [The Science Wars] Reference
Day's workshop produced sofas, dressers, bookcases, tables, chairs, also architectural ornamentation: fireplace mantels, scrollwork along doors and moldings. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Day: A Master Craftsman, With Complications] Reference
"Crown: Works by David S. East" East's installation-based work was inspired by architectural ornamentation, real estate images and search engine responses. From Wordnik.com. [Art exhibitions, current and upcoming, through January] Reference
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