Sentence examples for elaborate longer from inspiring English sources

Moore hoped the show would form the basis of more elaborate, longer shows.

A pragmatist who no longer elaborates on American supremacy, Obama knows he needs to rely on old allies to balance the erratic swings of globalization.

Prof. Krugman, who disputed the validity of Mr. Okrent's comments in the public editor's regular reader-letters column in The Times on Sunday, elaborated in a longer e-mail message for this Web Journal — with the understanding that Mr. Okrent's response would be posted simultaneously.

The longer, more elaborate minstrel ballads were patently meant to be recited rather than sung.

An elaborate setup is no longer necessary, because the phone already envelops us in a cloud of computing.

It must be admitted that the elaborate orchestration of a longer comic plot puts her skills under mild strain.

"These elaborate rituals are no longer fully played out in most parts of the world," Dr. Lock said.

They no longer fold elaborate fortune-tellers out of loose-leaf; instead they go online to read horoscopes or play games.

The stylized (though nonetheless frightening) standoff of the Cold War was replaced by a world in which many of the same elaborate safeguards might no longer exist, by nuclear possession on the part of countries that routinely fought one another (particularly in the Asian subcontinent), and by the development of weapons small enough to be smuggled into a country in a variety of ways.

He listed a trifecta of New York characteristics that contribute to a long life expectancy: density (you're surrounded by neighbors, and medical research proves that people with friends live longer), an elaborate system of public and private health care (your doctor is probably just down the block) and extensive mass transit (you're safer in a subway than in a car).

The majority who wish to bring change to the Church of England need no longer develop elaborate compromises to ensure that a small number can be insulated from the effects of change, as there is finally a credible ready-made alternative for them.