Betraying (as usual) no nervousness about the place of re-creations in nonfiction programming, the History Channel flaunts a huge and talented, if barely credited, cast; elaborate set design; music cues; and makeup that convincingly suggests scurvy, among other New World transformations.
As long as the deaths went quickly and smoothly, the cruelty appeared to be justified (just barely) by the elaborate ritual, which turned the bloodshed into a catharsis for some spectators.
If anything, the early-bird dinner crowd has been an inspiration to a generation that can barely afford anything more elaborate than Chipotle.
This fish-out-of-water sitcom about a pair of guileless New Zealand musicians bumbling through life in New York has a formula and sticks to it: stretches of surrealist, deadpan comedy, so minimal as to be barely there, alternate with comparatively elaborate, Michel Gondry-style fantastical musical numbers.
Matheson's script freely devised an elaborate narrative that barely resembled Poe, with only the finale having any similarity at all to the original short story on which the film was based.
Many wore elaborate costumes, many wore barely anything at all.
She barely stopped between songs to address the crowd or elaborate on the vague meanings of her empty-vessel lyrics.
The initial scenes of Fantasy are an almost perfect mix of drama and game, alternating so seamlessly between action sequences and elaborate animated cinematic scenes that you can barely distinguish between watching and playing.
Research by economist Steve Levitt and sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh found drug gangs in America are often organized as elaborate pyramid schemes where most drug dealers barely make minimum wage, but are exposed to extreme violence.
Journalist Kaveree Bamzai elaborated, "She hardly looks into the mirror, barely even glances at the set monitor, usually the crutch of every insecure actor, puts on make-up only under extreme duress, and never watches her old movies".
