As explained in an opening subtitle, "Burma VJ" contains certain embellishments, a connective tissue of sorts that sets up and links together the V.J.-shot sequences of monks, marches, police beatings and one point-blank murder of a Japanese journalist.
But even though the fiction has received certain "embellishments", Deng is a real person, his story is real, and so there is the need to stay true to those facts.
After cleansing the city to a certain extent, embellishment was commenced, and lastly, works of general public utility were undertaken.
Although faux suede can usually be safely laundered, certain linings or embellishments may not tolerate machine washing.
From this came the trope, a musical addition or embellishment to certain parts of the liturgy, as, for example, to the final syllable of the Alleluia.
Rather, he relegates these issues to the footnotes and appendixes, particularly the odd Appendix D, titled "Eidetic Memory and False Memory (and Autism)," in which he explains that a certain amount of image embellishment "no doubt happens within all of us".
One thing is certain: Call it what you will — embellishment or maybe embroidery — many foreigners seeking refuge in the United States bend the truth about their backgrounds, sometimes to the breaking point.
The paradox of these prewar structures is that, as ornate as they can be outside, the rooms within, with their plaster walls, are quite stark, with minimal embellishment, which provides a certain freedom.
"The MGM film presented the story in a certain way, and it's those things — the embellishments, the creative decisions — that Disney cannot use," explained Bonnie Eskenazi, a leading copyright lawyer with no ties to "Oz the Great and Powerful" who has successfully battled studios on behalf of theJ.
Conventional thought might dictate that an artist has two options: one, continue with the proven dynamic of the first album, but with added compositional devices or embellishments that reveal a deepening of the craft, or two, make an album that to a certain extent disregards the particular expectations brought by the debut in favor of a more liberating sonic palette.
Sometimes embellishments just come.
