Hannah Montana – mugging for the camera, all embellished denim and wide-eyed innocence to the delight of monetised tweens – needs to be a distant-ish memory (just far enough that the generation who grew up watching her will want to spend money on her music, of course) for Cyrus and her record label.
All the best stories about his eccentricity - and there were many - were first told, and no doubt embellished, by Longford himself.
The SNP line was reinforced through skilful rhetoric and soundbites, embellished and repeated until questioning it became almost pointless.
The First Lady cleverly chose a silk shift dress by Mumbai-born, New York-based designer Naeem Khan, deftly combining a western silhouette with a skirt embellished in exotic silken embroidery that would not have looked out of place on a Rajasthani maharaja.
This season, with the same manager and a squad embellished only by a handful of free transfers, they won 34 more points and came fourth (there is a new chairman, ice cream magnate Andrew Howard, though he is yet to sprinkle the club with his hundreds and thousands).
In the past seven decades it has been dusted with Hollywood magic, embellished by those who were not there, immortalised in history books and carved into local legend.
A freestanding claw-foot bath, embellished with numerous Victorian nozzles, is surely more suited for a night of decadent trysts than a quick solitary dip.
"I said my concern was the announcement - beaten up and embellished - would make us look like a continental US aircraft carrier with B52s roaring out of our airstrips, headed in all directions north," he writes.
But even Tories who could not care less about Mr Portillo's sexuality disapprove of the public display he has made of it.Although Mr Portillo has never embellished his original confession, he has woven this part of his biography into a tedious narrative of personal self-discovery.
Though they convey a deliciously fruity flavour of the times, Lees-Milne sometimes conflated, embellished and even fantasised after or during the event, albeit often unconsciously.
SPORTING blazers embellished with little acorns and oak leaves, the pupils of the first new school to open as a result of the Conservatives' flagship education policy will enter the classroom on August 30th.
