elaboration
Example Sentences
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Thomas Crow’s “Murder in the Rue Marat” is a granular account of the making of a masterpiece and a personal elaboration on its afterlife.
“We want it back,” he said without further elaboration.
From Los Angeles Times
Lilly did not respond to a request for elaboration on the point.
From Barron's
It does not seek the new, but demands endless repetition of the same themes, merely with greater elaboration, gaudier technical effects and greater expense.
From Salon
Here repeated rhythms are overlayed by a large ensemble featuring all the festival performers in ecstatic elaborations.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
