Sentence examples for foreign adornments from inspiring English sources

But Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil power of the lot, has few foreign adornments to its name.Gulf countries disclose scant details about their sovereign-wealth funds (SWFs), but Saudi Arabia is the most cautious investor, says Michael Maduell of the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, an American outfit which tracks them.

That ad is mentioned by Tony Judt in "Reappraisals," his exhilarating new collection of essays, by way of another rebuke, this time to liberals who "acquiesced in President Bush's catastrophic foreign policy," but then he is himself one of the latest adornments of that engaged tradition.

Foreign, foreign, foreign.

Body adornments generally belong to the wearer.

Adornments are no longer exclusively handmade.

The most common body adornments are paint and feather ornaments.

Magical and religious ideas are usually expressed in these adornments.

Elizabeth's parsimony did not extend to personal adornments.

But these episodes are adornments rather than lasting revelations.

Nevertheless, I have always hankered after shiny adornments.

But opening the stadium on time took precedence over adornments.