Sentence examples for once elaborate from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ullen's virtuosity was equaled by his poetry: the Études became at once elaborate musical machines and sound poems with a Debussy-like evocative power.

Where there were once elaborate homes, ski lodges, spas, restaurants and boutique hotels, there are now just gigantic scraped rectangles of red earth, with the great shadows of charred and crippled trees falling across them.

However, beginning October 1, 2013, the site is currently in "beta" for a new, controversial redesign that looks more like typical blog websites, with the once elaborate comment system now replaced with a simpler one at the end.

It seems likely that the core experience has itself played a role in the development of belief systems relating to the spirit world in many cultures and that those very belief systems, once elaborated upon, are then capable of influencing the hallucinatory content of sleep paralysis episodes in subsequent generations.

A Harvard legend holds that Eleanor Widener, to ensure no other Harvard man would share her son's fate, demanded, as a condition of her gift, that future graduates be required to demonstrate an ability to swim (this requirement, the Harvard Crimson once elaborated, was "dropped in the late 1970s because it was deemed discriminatory against physically disabled students").

The government can no longer spray for sand-flies or mosquitoes, so insects have proliferated, along with the diseases they carry.Most of the once-elaborate array of government services have vanished.

Once the elaborate hoax was revealed, people blasted the Sun and its owner, Benjamin Day.

Holes ran the length of both ears, suggesting that she had once worn elaborate gold jewellery.

Once this elaborate structure – both multiple narrators and a back-and-forth movement in time – might have seemed disconcerting, but the huge popularity of Small Island suggests that readers have found it no special challenge.

In his first postelection news conference, he focused on tax increases on the wealthy and used the term "spending cuts" just once without elaborating.

An entire room is devoted to blown-up photographs of the Chinese zodiac animal heads that once adorned an elaborate water clock fountain designed by Benoit.