Sentence examples for its ornaments from inspiring English sources

It is thought to have been constructed following an increase in wealth produced by the localisation of the woollen trade during a very bleak period, although, in 1552 it was noted that it had no endowment, and its ornaments were in poor condition.

At shrines it may involve bathing an icon, changing its ornaments, ringing bells, and waving lights before it (arati).

Still, Mr. Orth's reading was sharply focused at first: the Handel theme danced elegantly off the keyboard, its ornaments crisp and clean and its textures beautifully transparent.

Nicks may no longer be able to reach the high notes of Rhiannon, but the song's construction is sturdy enough to survive the removal of its ornaments.

One of its ornaments is the Oxford aesthete Guillaume de Vere-Tipple, authof of the Harold Acollection collection Feux de Artifice ("astonishing in its maturity"), from which Lancaster offers us the poem Aeneas on the Saxophone ("… Delenda est Carthago!

And well-decorated stick structures called bowers signal that a male bowerbird is able to keep other males from stealing its ornaments.

Called the I.B.M. Tower, it is a neo-Gothic campanile, refined in its ornament and satisfying in its proportions.

As time went on, Burmese brick and stucco architecture developed principally through the stiffening of masses into rectangular blocks and through the elaboration and often the coarsening of its ornament.

With a multi-arched polished steel dome agleam with spiky sun rays, streamlined eagle-head gargoyles and a wrap-around frieze of stylized cars that is replete with metal "hubcaps," this jazzy paean to the power of its automotive patron was despised by early proponents of the International Style, who saw its ornament as populist kitsch.

In the mid-1900's most of the large apartments in the Braender were cut up into smaller ones, and by the 1980's, when it was converted to condominiums, the building was in poor shape: its stone was battered and defaced, and the cornice and much its ornament had been removed.

The way in which he presented the opening aria, shedding a number of its usual ornaments, heightened the contrast with the elaborations of the variations that come later, while some of his changes of registration on the strikingly handsome two-manual instrument he was playing (a modern copy of a German harpsichord made in 1713) made dramatic musical points.