Sentence examples for decorative as a from inspiring English sources

Although the local painter may seek to represent "all about flowers" — to translate the show's title — her work is not as quietly decorative as a typical floral arrangement.

To present that music as if it was purely decorative – as a chocolate-box of nice tunes – seems to me to traduce everything it stands for.

Ellis Waterhouse suggested that the genre of elaborate costume pieces was as much a decorative as a plastic art.

Avoid using note cards or note paper that bear a decorative picture as well as papers bearing a scent or a fragrance.

It has a lawn with a decorative pond, as well as gardens.

They include instruments used for serious research and objects that were as much decorative as functional, like a banjo-shaped barometer.

Timber, a renewable resource readily available in Ghana has structural, non-structural and decorative advantages as a building material.

This research focusses on the implementation of decorative pictures as a prime for emotions and context-relatedness.

Mario Cortizo, a senior studying on an exchange program from Panama City, gave him a decorative cup as a gift.

Classical motifs were being read as assertions of French cultural superiority, and decorative painting as a genre became associated with a reactionary nationalism.

This eliminated the need for skilled glassblowers and the opportunity for workers to make end-of-workday decorative glass as a personal diversion.