Similarly, narrow strips of wood separate the glass channels that run across the gallery floors from the window frames, which makes the incisions feel decorative rather than like a clean surgical cut.
Certainly, several of the pictures that I saw in UBS's London offices felt decorative, timid and even downright mediocre.
What I think my colleague detests is the very subtlety of the sound, which he feels becomes decorative and pretty, whereas, to me, it's as if a new light glows from the very heart of the piece.
These scattershot parts hold your attention but feel like decorative fills between the real scenes.
Yet its use in his productions of Molière's "Misanthrope" and Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," both staged at the New York Theater Workshop, felt more decorative than analytical.
Likewise the visual counterpart to Ms. Prestini's radiant, folk-inspired "Cut Him Into Little Stars" felt more decorative than integrated.
But at other times extended dance interludes felt like decorative padding, or they were awkwardly hemmed in by the child-friendly approach, as with a suggestive duet for "Little Red Riding Hood" and that Big Bad Wolf.
Flowers are one of Mr. Surls's current primary motifs, and he arranges, them, blown up like Mr. Henderson's design objects, carved from wood and attached to bronze armatures, in configurations that feel blandly decorative rather than mysterious, intriguing or ingenious.
It certainly wasn't a negative in this show, but here those moments felt merely decorative, not integral to the work or revealing of any emotional undercurrent.
Cut another felt with decorative edgings by craft scissors; sew it at the reserve side along the edge.
Where the trilogy often felt like a decorative soap, this is a more slyly political piece.
