You couldn't call the library beautiful, but it rose above Main Street handsome and tall, all planes and angles, lacking ornamentation.
The differences in appearance between the sexes result from a process known as sexual selection, in which individual males with extreme ornamentation have a higher breeding success; they pass on the genes that form the basis for these features at a faster rate than those individuals lacking ornamentation.
They lack ornamentation — by design, of course — and seem cheaply made, which they are.
Suitable for his often otherworldly settings, Mr. Vance wrote a stylized, attention-getting prose, not baroque exactly but not lacking in ornamentation or eccentric music, and full of vivid, sometimes lurid imagery.
The holotype consists of an articulated partial skeleton characterized by a broad, well-ossified skull lacking dermal ornamentation, eight procoelous presacral vertebrae, and posteriorly deflected, cylindrical sacral diapophyses; these features, together with the possible presence of a discrete palatine, are consistent with neobatrachian affinities.
Some tubes are smooth and lack ornamentation.
Although such bivalves lack ornamentation, the shell is typically thick and dark.
His style was simple, nearly monumental; unlike the printwork of goldsmiths, his engravings lack ornamentation.
Both genera lack ornamentation such as spines and carinae, but are thought to have reached that state independently, through convergent evolution.
Like tracheids, hydroids are elongated cells with oblique end walls, however they lack secondary ornamentation characteristic of tracheids.
In the article, the Sony designer discussed Sony portable electronic device designs that lacked excessive ornamentation such as buttons, fit in the hand, were square with a screen and had corners [which] have been rounded out.
