Sentence examples for needlessly elaborate from inspiring English sources

The plot is needlessly elaborate.

This is not to say that they are needlessly elaborate or overlong.

Consider selling surplus Bunsen burners as needlessly elaborate and dangerous candles for birthday cakes.

And a special of curried split lobster turned out to be a needlessly elaborate and messy affair.

That hostility will fall away faster should some GM food prove to be cheaper than non-GM food, which may yet happen.One reason for this is that, later this year, Europe will introduce a needlessly elaborate new scheme of labelling and tracking GM foods right through the food chain, which is meant to give consumers more choice by alerting them to GM products.

Of all the outlandish objects in Sculpture Victorious – the majolica peacock, the emu-egg casket, the lifesize electroplated figure of Elizabeth I – the most needlessly elaborate is a salt cellar in the form of St George treading triumphantly on his dragon by the English sculptor Edward Onslow Ford.

("It was considered too scary for foreign audiences, while just hitting the politically-correct spot in Sweden," reckons my neighbourhood Swede).The meddling continues: the sequel, "The Girl Who Played With Fire" in English, is faithful to the Swedish title, but in Spanish is needlessly elaborated as, "The girl who dreamed of a match and a can of petrol".

Hooper was to his left so he might have been trying to find him, but given that he was six yards out, that seems needlessly over-elaborate.

George Orwell famously wrote of the "contagion" within language to elaborate needlessly, while M&C Saatchi often spoke of the "brutal simplicity of thought" that underpins a lot of great advertising.

You don't need to elaborate and needlessly frighten them.

In this elaborate and needlessly complex and elongated little fantasy, a boy named Adam Jim Sturgesss) from Down Below climbs a mountain, which puts him within shouting distance of a girl named Eden (Kirsten Dunst) who lives Up Top and has climbed a similarly protruding peak.