Sentence examples for perhaps embellished from inspiring English sources

Later, Landry and Jacobs tangled after another play and Jacobs, a boxing buff, went down, a fall that was perhaps embellished, for a mandatory three count.

The general has a (perhaps embellished) reputation for monk-like asceticism, eating once a day and banning alcohol from his headquarters in Kabul.

Her sheer slip (designed by Coterie of New York - a label to avoid, perhaps), embellished presumably to 'discreetly' hide her lady-bits, looks like a glitzy, oversized merkin and seems conceived entirely to showcase her lack of undergarments.

The curving, chiaroscuro effect of the spring season developed for fall into more definite colors and textures: lace, perhaps embellished with iridescent sparkles; textured velvet with leather pockets; and a flash of green at the hem, developing later as pale shades of pistachio.

The robbers "feared madness", Mr Trudeau said, "and beat an anxious retreat".For many Canadians, the story, although perhaps embellished in the telling, summed up their view of him: his daring, the power of his oratory, his originality in dealing with a problem.

Although he objected fiercely to over-intellectualism (one Cambridge anecdote, perhaps embellished, has James reprimanding two undergraduates dissecting a philosophical question with the order, "No thinking, please, gentlemen!"), his particular scholarly interests included the haunted world of the Apocrypha and early-medieval manuscripts.

Walker fell — perhaps from contact, perhaps embellishing it — earning a technical foul.

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They are characters that might be based on real-life prisoners who shared their stories with the author, perhaps embellishing their tales with the sort of flight of fancy that we might now describe as quixotic.

Perhaps we embellish our lifestyles in general.

One recent morning at Parsons, Mr. Rissanen rearranged on a swath of denim the muslin pattern for a classic five-pocket jean, showing how much fabric could be saved if the design were somehow different — fewer pockets perhaps, or adding embellished seam detailing.