Sentence examples for elaborate affairs from inspiring English sources

Hindu funerals are elaborate affairs.

Some are elaborate affairs with gilded frames that came from Ms. Lewis's father's house.

The celebrations, which have been relegated to a Moscow highway for the past 23 years, were traditionally elaborate affairs celebrating Russia's military might and the Bolshevik revolution.

Parents nowadays are indulging their offspring with much more elaborate affairs, from movie-themed parties to speciality sporting events, and they are prepared to pay for it.

Divorce ceremonies run the gamut, be it elaborate affairs witnessed by friends and family or vows spoken by the former couple (or half of the former couple) and, sometimes, their children.

While there are no reliable statistics on how many families have reunions each year, there are plenty of indicators that such events are proliferating and becoming increasingly elaborate affairs.

And the wedding was this extraordinarily elaborate affair.

Of course, it could have been a much more elaborate affair.

For that, Mr. Perry had planned an elaborate affair at a restaurant in Montclair, N.J.

The Xerox PARC mouse was an elaborate affair, with an array of ball bearings supporting the roller ball.

It was replaced in 1866 with a much more elaborate affair, by the greatest of all the pier designers, Eugenius Birch.