Sentence examples for much ornament from inspiring English sources

Handbags, too, are not sprouting as much ornament as in the past or demanding their own place on the sidewalk.

"We try to show that luxury has so much ornament, that now the next wave is 'simple is beautiful' and 'simple is luxury'".

On her own Ms. Holland loaded so much ornament in the song that it sounded like three people singing at once; she ran lines together in slurs and dropped 50-pound accents on nearly every line-ending vowel.

He used the regular techniques of later Roman historiography rhetoric in his speeches, ethnographical digressions in descriptions, such as that of the culture of the Huns, and biographical conventions in character sketches along with fondness for literary allusion, overabundant metaphor, and much ornament.

Here, books were as much ornament as the architecture itself.

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.

At this point, if you're anything like my sister, Lynne, you'll want to know how much the ornament actually cost.

We know objectively how much the ornaments overwhelm the tree, but we don't really grasp it until we try and look at the tree without the occluding ornaments.

Outstanding examples are found on the elaborate relief-carved doors of Sumatran Batak houses; "flying" roof finials in many parts of Indonesia; and in much Borneo Dayak ornament, from tattoos to carved bamboos and bronze body ornaments.

Cole explained that its design "had as much beauty and ornament as is consistent with cheapness".

Its head was a much sought-after ornament among settlers and Indians.