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

That ornateness is perfectly suited to “Once on This Island,” a fable of love and death and temperamental gods set in the French Antilles.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2017

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

The panel has a fine Olympian dignity and an ornateness that becomes simplicity through grace of handling, and does not mar the correct mural flatness of surface.

From The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition by Perry, Stella George Stern