ornateness

Example Sentences

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It was about simplicity, in contrast to the excessive ornateness of the Victorian interior—but also about a sort of a pride in America, the American past.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2021

Two long aisles are chock-full of 125-pound cash registers, which have varying degrees of ornateness.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2019

On Friday night Tiler Peck, in a debut, retained an inward sensibility while bringing a theatrical ornateness to the lovely filigree flourishes of the arms and upper body in her solo.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2011

“It was very ornate,” says Burrows, “and we took the ornateness out.”

From Architectural Digest • Apr. 1, 2010

Hence the work can be called a complicated ordering of the figures, but it is also a sincere attempt to provide in English those figures which would lend ornateness to the expression of an idea.

From A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes by Hildebrandt, Herbert William