Sentence examples for ornate style from inspiring English sources

Byrhtferth of Ramsey wrote several Latin works and the Enchiridion, a textbook on the calendar, notable for its ornate style.

Its waiter's friends are lovely designs in an older, more ornate style than the minimalist Code-38.

Timaeus employed a pleasing "Asiatic" (i.e., rather ornate) style, of which the orator and statesman Cicero approved.

Fornasetti's ornate style seemed even more frivolous to the radical Anti-Design Movement of the 1970s than it had to the Modernists in the 1950s and '60s.

A speculative citizen of the world, he wrote in an ornate style and, as one critic said, delighted in mirroring the macrocosm in a microcosm.

His most important early work extant is the Adoration of the Kings, which is painted in the ornate style of the Antwerp school.

Stuccowork was readily adaptable to the elaborate, ornate styles of post-Renaissance architecture, and, because it was less expensive than stone and easier to model, stucco began to be applied to columns and their entablatures.

He was refreshingly detached, rather ornate in style, but capable of vivid narrative and description.

In the nineteen-fifties, Stone switched to a more ornate, embellished style.

The display includes a re-creation of the fabled toilet at CBGB, but presented in the ornate, framed style of the Met's period rooms.

Many relish his ornate, unapologetic style, while others believe the glitz has overwhelmed the skating, making his chances for an Olympic medal as slippery as the ice itself.