According to the campaign's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, and other aides who worked with Mr. Bush on the remarks, he tended to elect simple statements over ornate locutions, the epigrammatic over the elongated, words he felt comfortable saying over words that challenged him, clarity over ambiguity.
The portrait of him by Karl Anton Hickel in the National Portrait Gallery, which Taylor mentions approvingly in his essay and in which Fox's cropped hair and less ornate clothes are an overt statement of his political sympathies, is not currently on show.
By day, Turner worked in real estate and in the art world, where she defined herself by her ornate attire, never leaving her apartment without a statement toque.
In her introductory statement before television cameras were ushered out of the ornate conference room, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pleaded for both sides to make the compromises needed to end a dispute that has been unresolved for more than six decades.
Mr. Sarkozy and Mrs. Merkel later left the event, in an ornate concert hall known as the Alte Oper, without making statements.
Finally, the honey-colored wood of the hall served as a handsome backdrop for the ornate robes of the performers and the sculptural intricacy of the instruments -- individual statements of splendor in a warm, open space.
On the cover she lowers an ornate dagger into her mouth in front of a fiery background: it's a powerful statement – fantastical and oddly sensual.
A few are inflammatory statements by the artist written in a twisting script at once amusingly ornate and next to impossible to read.
Most controversially, fairy lights that for decades were strung between ornate lamposts on the promenade have been replaced by modern fixtures beaming green lasers into the darkness, a visual statement some critics have felt would be more appropriate to a resort like Ibiza.
A few of the ink-on-paper pieces are inflammatory political statements by the artist written in a twisting, squeezed-together script that is at once amusingly ornate and next to impossible to read.
