You can try hardwoods for a more ornate look.
From time to time, the composer hinted that the horrors of the twentieth century, and in particular the Holocaust, had made other, more ornate kinds of musical expression impossible for him.
To that end, the film begins at the beginning, back on Krypton where Jor-El (Mr. Crowe) attempts to persuade its council, wearing dour expressions and ornate headdresses evocative of Gothic tracery, that their planet is doomed.
The first stage of actor training is often reminding students of this innate capacity, scraping away all those creaky ideas of Acting with a capital A: the affected voices, stiff walks, earnest expressions and ornate intonations which aren't acting at all but just Doing Something (To Mask Our Embarrassment).
And Mr. Robbins draws heavily on the inmates' lives in training them in the commedia dell'arte style that is the heart of the Actors' Gang method, with its ornate costumes and makeup, exaggerated expressions and comedic movements, focusing on four basic emotional states: anger, fear, happiness and sadness.
Media and constructions that used recycled or low-cost materials in the celebration and expression of simplicity rather then ornate refinement and extreme detail stood out in numbers at the exhibition.
His gift for pithy, straightforward expression could not be further from the ornate vacuity of official Vatican speak.
The centers of most of the show's galleries are given over to the stunningly ornate suits of armor topped by even more extravagant helmets and by face masks whose open-mouthed expressions seem locked in an eternal battle cry.
The expressive facial expressions and stylized movements of the singer Yan Wang, clad in an ornate costume, helped convey the story of a woman stood up by her lover in selections from "The Drunken Concubine," a traditional Beijing opera.
