Sentence examples for elaborate world from inspiring English sources

GENEVA — The elaborate world of art auctions includes two dominant international auction houses, dozens of sometimes-struggling smaller operations and a growing set of players operating exclusively online.

The rules, in the often baroquely elaborate world of N.C.A.A. regulations, also permit athletes free meals on other occasions — say, when they are traveling to a game or when they are practicing with their teams during vacation periods.

I imagine most writers of novels begin with such a fragment, a shard of experience so compelling, so troubling and unavoidable -- always there, on the periphery of consciousness -- that around it he or she must construct an elaborate world.

The ambition of realism was put aside; instead the intention was to create an elaborate world with its own regulations and peculiarities that the player would probe, gradually discovering its secrets.

China has spent $45 billion — even more than it devoted to remake Beijing for the Olympics — to mount an elaborate World Expo, inviting 189 countries to showcase a polished, vibrant Shanghai that it envisions as a financial capital for the region, even the world.

Even in this regard, the Farrellys have been left behind by such directors as Wes Anderson and Jared Hess, whose comic imaginings may not be as mechanically pure and efficient as those of the Farrellys but whose over-all sense of cinematic style is vastly more comprehensive and complex, and whose carefully composed humor — as well as their elaborate world view — is integral to that style.

After making albums of elaborate world-music fusions, Mr. Blades sounds relaxed and frisky as he returns to the familiarity of the rumba.

There's her brother Jude, who's just 15 months older than she is, and with whom she shares a passion for Action Man games involving elaborate world-war-two scenarios.

Instead, he came up with a massive undertaking of visually elaborate worlds and stunningly complex characters and ideas".

The children, with few material resources, will invent elaborate worlds, not knowing from one moment to the next where their actions will lead.

Anxious about the cold war, prone to unhappy dreams about nuclear holocaust, Mr. Mitchell immersed himself in elaborate worlds of his own creation, drawing on huge artists' boards intricate mazes and sprawling continents peopled by imaginary characters.