Boulle's style is characterized by elaborate adornment with brass (occasionally engraved) and tortoiseshell marquetry.
They are presenting some of their most recent pieces, including "Passages and Outtakes" and "Woman Without Adornment," with Ms. Davis reciting the texts, Ms. Speach at the piano, Alva Rogers as vocalist and Jeffrey Schanzer on guitar.
I yearned to feast in splendor at the Kona Kai, which looked like a huge, dark stockade, studded with blazing torches and guarded by giant tiki statues that seemed to demand adornment with the skulls of conquered enemies; inside were said to be waterfalls, orchids, fiery drinks, and barbaric skewers of meat.
The Müller-Lyer effect, the apparent difference in the length of a line as the result of its adornment with arrowheads or arrow tails, is the best known and most controversial of the classical geometrical illusions.
The Aztecs, Mayans and Incas wore gold septum rings for adornment, with the practice continued to this day by the Kuna of Panama.
These adornments conflict with the sobriety of his dark suit and, especially, with the delicate, fine kid of his obviously handcrafted shoes.
The amazing array of male adornments – along with the ways they show them off – have become more extreme through the generations, purely and simply because they are the ones the ladies find most attractive.
Sixty-five necklands adornmentsents incorporated with old and modern materials are also on display.* "Emblems of Ethereal Grace," Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1201 W. Malvern Ave . Fullerton.
Equally an adornment and with little conviction are occasional references to Kate's poetry.
It is also heavy with flashy adornments, among them a trident with a staff made of three heads representing the three kayas, or expressions of the Buddha.
