Sentence examples for excessively ornate from inspiring English sources

During a large part of the twentieth century, fu poetry was harshly criticized by Chinese scholars as excessively ornate, lacking in real emotion, and ambiguous in its moral messages.

Not anything too ornate or obsequious.

As in the book, the characters speak in ornate, excessively civilized ways — they make the characters on "Deadwood" seem plain-spoken in retrospect — perhaps as a bulwark against the uncivilized matters at hand.

"So not excessively excessive.

The rooms too, are ornate, yet functional.

The emir issued an edict banning ornate and excessively formal writing in government documents; the beginning of a modern Persian prose style dates from this time.

Everyone excessively tidy, excessively generous.

Some entrees were ornate.

Album art had become ornate.

Weeds crawled over ornate lintels.

Never ornate, it grows simpler.