The phrase "act of elaborating" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process or action of providing more detail or explanation about a particular subject.
Example: "The act of elaborating on complex ideas can greatly enhance understanding among the audience."
Alternatives: "process of explaining" or "action of detailing".
Appropriately, then, Ripley's game is an act of elaborate revenge on a social inferior foolish enough to insult his sensibility.
The sentencing of the accused took place at the auto-da-fé (Portuguese: "act of faith"), an elaborate public expression of the Inquisition's power.
The dynamic ideas of potency and act are thus elaborated and complicated: the idea of potency quwwa to which Avicenna adds those of preparation (istiʿdād) and specific or proper preparation (istiʿdād ḫāṣṣ)—is interpreted in the light of emanation: the potency of matter is reception in time and is in fact possibility in time.
The geometries of everyday life echo the actual proportions of the works before our eyes, reinforcing and elaborating the act of looking.
And there's Hope Davis as his bitter, sarcastic wife, Bunnie, who while Jack's at the office, acts out elaborate rituals of phony robbery and pseudorape with her next-door neighbor Simon Chi McBridee).
Krajnc could not save the young pig who sipped her water, but she transformed her legal defense into a powerful platform to not only justify her small act of mercy but also to elaborate on Toronto Pig Save's mission.
He arrives at a convincing, if tidy, explanation: his androgyny is an elaborate "act of regression," a retreat from the expectations of adulthood.
Even as he throws himself into the Liu Ying story two years later, Talese worries that it's just an elaborate act of procrastination.
As recently as last year, Fay Weldon's novel "The Bulgari Connection," written under contract to the jewelry manufacturer as an elaborate act of product placement, seemed faintly scandalous.
Would it be necessary to stage an elaborate act of ironic agitprop around 40 recycled dresses destined for a garden-party reunion of the Golden Girls to capture such a person's attention?
