"decorative without" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is lacking in decoration or adornment. Here is an example: "The minimalist style of the room was striking, with its clean lines and neutral color scheme, yet it still felt cozy and inviting, remaining perfectly decorative without overwhelming the space."
Decorative without being overly frivolous.
Plants are not just beautiful and decorative; without them we simply couldn't survive.
Jeff Greene, the founder of EverGreene Architectural Arts, which restored the Roosevelt murals, pauses at the thought, and says they would almost certainly be purely decorative, without narrative content.
Instead, Hodge selects a chartreuse glass ice bucket by Reed & Barton, marked down twice, from $40 to $14.99 to $6. "This is an example of how something streamlined can be decorative without having too much ornamentation," she says, admiring a silhouette that tickles her fancy for midcentury Danish design.
Each can indulge in extreme decorative artifice without weakening, because the tension between them is constant and eventful, full of jangling and caressing surprises.
Film music might then be turned to more constructive instead of merely decorative purposes, without the dramatic license of the British film director Ken Russell's treatment of extensive passages from Tchaikovsky's music in his film The Music Lovers (1971).
The Doric frieze is a good case: its origin (i.e., an imitation of the effect of alternating beam ends and shuttered openings in archaic wood construction) remained evident, but it came to be treated as a decorative sheath without reference to the actual structural forms behind.
Many times, however, unsuspecting bidders at auction have bought artworks or high-priced decorative objects without a genuinely contending bid in sight.
Similar styles to woodburning are suitable, however, there are many decorative screens without mesh that work too.
"I say to her, 'Oh, please.' " Still, the house was not without decorative details.
BCBG, both the store and the compliment, should be directed toward a very young lady, after all; one still on her journey toward a suit without decorative zippers, and not yet possessed of serious hair.
