It may also be undervalued in progressive curricula that emphasize so-called elaborative methods, such as concept mapping. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Usually finished with tiles or mosaics, concrete pools can be as glamorous and elaborative as wanted, with prices starting at around £35,000. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
The creative aspect, symbolized by the father and Heaven, they call Yang, while Yin is the receptive and elaborative aspect, symbolized by the mother and the Earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Balancing and Synthesis of the Opposites, by Roberto Assagioli] Reference
Member Secretary of J&K State Commission for Women, Hafiza Muzzaffar gave elaborative details regarding the women commission and its policies to ensure the welfare of women in all circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [J&K Woman Minister urged women folk to shed ignorance & play their role in eradication social evils] Reference
There is also a rather elaborative interview with a renowned Iranian-American, Professor Rahni, which is well worth reading to better understand the challenges faced by this community in the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Looking Middle Eastern? You need not apply, need not travel, and so, need not exist!] Reference
The lay of the land we are experiencing as we read this is the shape of the internal landscape of Frank's brain, the way his thoughts move in mediative, elaborative circles around certain recurring questions and themes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Occupying most of a page in the business-oriented broadsheet paper's international news section, the elaborative article surrounding the "report card" was topped by a four-column picture of President Nelson Mandela, flanked by Freedom Front leader. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
And then there was a subsequent discussion that you have in your testimony on the Senate side, and there seems to be, when you read your two statements, one was much more elaborative and contained a lot more information and background, which was not part of your answer here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Clinton Pardons: House Government Reform Committee Questions Former Clinton Aides - March 1, 2001] Reference
His elaborative touches elsewhere were of the same nature. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914] Reference
Picture-word consistency and the elaborative processing of advertisements. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Medical Internet Research] Reference
The application process is quite elaborative at each business schools websites. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The process of link building has become quite elaborative and professional one. From Wordnik.com. [SiliconIndia.com] Reference
His logic was intuitive rather than tentative, instinctive rather than elaborative. From Wordnik.com. [An Address in Commemoration of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
An elaborative template is provided where Operators can manage and use these messages effectively. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
It's hard with Janis Joplin because, with those songs, she was singing very elaborative, if that's the word. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
Their elaborative organs were formed to produce this, while proper obstacles were opposed to its further progress. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on the State of Virginia.] Reference
Those who would want to make it mere elaborative wit the help of images must ensure that their image alt tags are optimized for search as much as possible. From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
In the strategy elaborative interrogation, students ask why a fact makes sense, which helps them explain or expand text information and better remember it. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
At first, they were rusty ... and a bit clumsey, not very refined (not expecting tuxedos .... but they did not know the menu and were not very polite or elaborative on the FOOD). From Wordnik.com. [Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue] Reference
Be it presentative, conservative, reproductive, representative, elaborative, regulative, or whatever the fine Hamiltonian analysis may suggest, give it its proper place and its proper scope. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Dartmouth College] Reference
It was Haydn who began to demand of the pianoforte more of breadth, and a certain coloration of touch, which he must have needed in his elaborative passages in the middle of the sonata piece. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
Much later in the book, Cal experiences the elaborative and extending nature of words to both clarify and complicate themselves in an interconnected web of meanings when he traces synonyms through. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
Following a series of highly elaborative and successful Flight Readiness Reviews (FRRs), launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-131 mission is just three days away - as Launch Countdown (S0007) operations kicked off early on Friday morning. From Wordnik.com. [NASASpaceFlight.com] Reference
She has equally insisted on those exact studies which compel subtleness and precision of thought, which habituate the mind to long trains of controlled reasoning, which discipline alike the attention and the will, the conservative and the elaborative powers. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Dartmouth College] Reference
In the direction of the musically elaborative element we have the schools of the Netherlands and of Italy, in which absolutely everything of this kind was realized which modern art can show, saving perhaps the fugue, which involved questions of tonality belonging to a grade of taste and harmonic perception more advanced and refined than that as yet attained. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
I wud hv appreciated if u wud have been more elaborative in ur approach. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Intensive meditation practice seems to reduce the elaborative thinking that normally occurs when we evaluate a thought and meditators are able to clear their minds of distractions more quickly than those who don’t meditate. From Wordnik.com. [Choke] Reference
If we look at our modern manufactures immediately after studying patterns which enchant us with their classical repose, or after it such others as captivate the eye by their beautiful coloring, or the elaborative working out of their details, we recognize that the beautifully balanced form is often cut up, choked over with others, or mangled (the flower springing up side down from the leaves), the whole being traversed at random by spirals, which are utterly foreign to the spirit of such a style, and all this at the caprice of uncultured, boorish designers. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884] Reference
The process is called 'elaborative encoding.'. From Wordnik.com. [Memory] Reference
Besides this, elaborative security measures have been planned for other places to be visited by athletes and spectators, "he said. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
Yet to concentrate solely on the literal sense or even the psychological content of any document to the sore neglect of the enveloping facts themselves circumstantiating it is just as hurtful to sound sense (and let it be added to the truest taste) as were some fellow in the act of perhaps getting an intro from another fellow turning out to be a friend in need of his, say, to a lady of the latter’s acquaintance, engaged in performing the elaborative antecistral ceremony of upstheres, straightaway to run off and vision her plump and plain in her natural altogether, pre-ferring to close his blinkhard’s eyes to the ethiquethical fact that she was, after all, wearing for the space of the time being some definite articles of evolutionary clothing, inharmonious creations. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
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