Adjective : elaborate preparations; elaborate care. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to elaborate upon a theme or an idea. From Dictionary.com.
A cynic might find his unelaborate prescriptions almost reminiscent of Chauncey. From Wordnik.com. [Humble Dalai Lama Simply a Superstar] Reference
Since those quaintly simple and emphatic statements which, under the name of Froissart's Chronicles, seem to perpetuate the instinctive notion of History, as an honest and earnest, but unadorned and unelaborate narrative of military and political facts, -- not only has there been a continual refinement of style and enlargement of scope and art, but a greater complexity and subdivision in the historian's labors. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
It is the unelaborate magic of the Celtic temperament. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
In the following pages, the writer for the most part deals with small subjects in an unelaborate manner. From Wordnik.com. [manybooks.net] Reference
His writings, few and unelaborate as they are, have won admiring praise from the judges whose verdict is fame. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendships of Women] Reference
On the one hand is the plain style now in vogue, characterized by unadorned vocabulary, directness, unelaborate syntax, and earthiness. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3] Reference
It is reasonable, necessary even, to begin with the Soul of the All. Notice that if we are to explain and to be clear, we are obliged to use such words as “entry” and “ensoulment,” though never was this All unensouled, never did body subsist with soul away, never was there Matter unelaborate; we separate, the better to understand; there is nothing illegitimate in the verbal and mental sundering of things which must in fact be co-existent. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
New York Times food writer Peter Meehan), struck me in a similar way: The recipes are organized from simple to knuckle-busters, but the process in which he arrives to the finished plate is appealingly unelaborate. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
Call forth the unelaborate sounds. From Wordnik.com. [In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)] Reference
Rather we feel that we are receiving her thoughts into ourselves, and that, in certain receptive hours, we are, by some avenue simpler and profounder than reason, made aware of certitudes we cannot formulate, but which nevertheless siderealize into a faith beyond the reach of common doubt -- a faith, indeed, unelaborate, a faith, one might say, of one tenet: belief in the spiritual sublimity of all Nature, and, therefore, of our own being as a part thereof. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
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