The number of dishes available, and the elaborateness of their preparation, has been increasingly curtailed as labour costs have risen and the availability of skilled labour decreased.
The degree of elaborateness of the display is governed by a number of factors.
These feasts were of varying degrees of elaborateness, depending on the circumstances.
The number and elaborateness of the meetinghouses were greatest in Palau and Yap.
The other night in Chicago, I had one of the best meals of my life at Alinea, where I had seventeen or so courses, all small, all done with a kind of rococo elaborateness that delighted me.
Her response was to nod politely at the perilous elaborateness of it all; to nod in the knowledge that she would never be able to get where she wanted to go.
With their Rube Goldberg-esque ingenuity, their elaborateness directly proportional to their preposterousness, these can end up looking suspiciously like madness.
Despite the elaborateness of the décor, Ms. Tober worked strenuously to avoid a look that seemed ripped from the pages of a shelter magazine.
How can we enjoy one another's company without getting bogged down in the obvious disparities in vacation plans, gifts given to children, elaborateness of meals and other things that are luxuries for some and everyday for others?
His very employers sometimes seemed confused by the elaborateness of his journalistic imper sonations.
The costumes and acts vary in accuracy and elaborateness, and the comedians being imitated range from past favorites like Eddie Murphy and Woody Allen to modern stars like Kathy Griffin and Louis CK.
