The candy was of an inexpensive variety – Patty had discovered the ten-cent store – but the boxes that contained it made up in decorativeness what the candy lacked; they were sprinkled with Cupids and roses in vivid profusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Patty] Reference

Rules having economic value while aiming at decorativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman as Decoration] Reference

Arabic decorativeness in tinted stucco is the palace begun by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

You will by this means increase your decorativeness, and what is of more serious importance, your economic value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman as Decoration] Reference

In much of his later work there is a marked change from his earlier elaborate decorativeness to a style of vigorous strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

It seemed a sorry attempt at visual overloading in order to draw attention away from the mind-numblingly decorativeness of the actual art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buzzine » Murakami at MOCA] Reference

There are a few rules with regard to the costuming of woman which if understood put one a long way on the road toward that desirable goal -- decorativeness, and have economic value as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman as Decoration] Reference

A first glance at her work reveals a kind of obsessive decorativeness that is somewhat abject, innocent and childish A second glance deciphers a sober social and self criticism and a humor that chooses to hide inside a shell of weakness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artists: Israeli, 1970 to the Present.] Reference

His is a strange blend of realism and decorativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Peter Grimm] Reference

Far nobler and more beautiful than its Arabic decorativeness in tinted stucco is the palace begun by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

In summer uniforms of white linen with gold shoulder-straps, and shining top-boots, they rivalled the donkey-man in decorativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Junior] Reference

Zechmeister, often are designed to within an inch of their lives but without any traces of folkloric decorativeness or touristy "samba show" kitsch.    From Wordnik.com.  [latimes.com - News] Reference

Such a canvas is one which Hawthorne loved to fill up with the shadowed lights, the melodramatic coloring and fantastic decorativeness of his fancies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference

He said that if the tasteful decorativeness of the thing did not kill it with the public outright, its literary excellence would give it the finishing stroke.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference

Chandeliers and lamps may also be disfigured by obtrusive shellwork or want of all symmetry, or may amid great decorativeness be kept within reasonable limits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

He had a large wooden model (still extant) prepared by his pupil Labacco, showing a glorious vestibule and in the interior and exterior exuberant architectonic decorativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

The music of "Tsar Saltan," for instance, for all its evocations of magical cities and wonder-towers and faëry splendor, impresses one as little more than theatrical scenery of a high decorativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference

It is this scenic decorativeness which has enriched many a slim piece, accepted by him for presentation, and such a play has always been given that care and attention which has turned it eventually into a Belasco "offering.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Peter Grimm] Reference

The inner half could be shut away by folding-doors, and its highly polished sideboard, chairs, table, a silver épergne towering upon it, glimmered in a dusky element that relegated it, when not illuminated for use, to a mere ghostly decorativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fountain Sealed] Reference

No, I think decorativeness is an added value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brilliance Or Bust] Reference

Architectonic decorativeness is found nowhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference