The latest acquisitions, part of an elaborate water clock designed around the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac, would fit right in. |
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Yet we hate the aching knees, ankles and Achilles tendons, the elaborate warm-up and warm-down times, the endless stretching. |
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He had emerged from his fairly elaborate morning ablutions looking ashen-faced. |
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How could it have avoided becoming just another part of the whole elaborate web of half-truths, misinformation and spin? |
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When her judgement failed, she had tried an elaborate process of trial and error. |
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He uses an elaborate mast step bridge which elevates the mast shoe so the mast base is never in the bilge water. |
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As the Union Pacific Railroad was being constructed, an elaborate trestle bridge was built across a large canyon in the West. |
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The priests process round the church, swinging clouds of incense, carrying their elaborate silver Ethiopian crosses and richly bound bibles. |
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Funnily enough, he feels the same about my precious bibelots, but I have an elaborate rationalisation for my tendency to accrue. |
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In other teachings the doctrine of transmigration went with an elaborate view of the spiritual cosmos within which transmigration occurs. |
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The ocean surrounding Australia is home to several species of sea urchins, which form elaborate exoskeletons made from carbonate minerals. |
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The only elaborate aspect of the many churches is the Dutch tradition of bell-ringing. |
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Without literary traditions, rural folk share elaborate cognitive maps with others through the use of toponyms that give geographic orientations. |
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He seems to be just as good at bringing mathematics to life, especially rather elaborate topological constructions. |
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After you've gotten the knack of making a simply topiary shape, you can try more elaborate shapes, such as animals and giant birds. |
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The remainder of the murders are set pieces, built on elaborate contraptions and ridiculously fun set-ups. |
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Did you ever pay attention to the manual toothbrushes with the elaborate handles? |
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Yes, there is method in her madness, a classroom run on an elaborate system of second chances, rewards and discipline. |
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On November 26, 1950, First Baptist Church staged an elaborate sesquicentennial celebration. |
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Renovation and redecoration of church property was followed by an elaborate sesquicentennial celebration. |
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Instead, they transfer compounds from their tongues into two elaborate sensory receptors known as the vomeronasal organs. |
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From the late Middle Ages onward, Italian churches were increasingly filled with an abundance of elaborate family tombs. |
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Finally, elaborate megalithic art in Ireland is found only at passage tombs. |
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The day was the climax of elaborate festivities to commemorate, and befittingly so, Zambia's peaceful journey of 40 years. |
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He was at the same time working on a series of children's books to elaborate for children how the different races came to Guyana. |
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The molars tend to interlock with their mesial and distal neighbors in ways which become more elaborate and precise in later forms. |
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In response, Creole women used their sense of style to devise elaborate tignons or head wraps, which emphasized their attractiveness. |
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The simple melodic pattern of psalmody is often embellished, varied, or extended to generate more elaborate forms. |
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Collars were another category of clothing often decorated with elaborate beadwork on the Northwest Coast. |
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And the involutions of plot become if anything more elaborate than in the first half of the poem. |
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The patterns are usually large geometric medallions and are heavily quilted with elaborate designs such as feathered scrolls and cables. |
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Higher plants have developed several elaborate mechanisms to ward off pathogen attack. |
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They are made from papyrus root, bast fiber, and banana leaves and are decorated with mud dyes in elaborate patterns. |
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The drawing room marries a huge, oxblood marble fireplace with an elaborate segmented plaster ceiling. |
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Throughout the world, Messianic congregations hold elaborate and well-publicized Passover Seders. |
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Mitchell senior went on a vast spending spree in the house, adding elaborate plaster ceilings including a barrel vault in the dining room. |
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The city rose to this challenge, not with banks of sterile oven-slot tombs but with dazzlingly elaborate mausoleums. |
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Stainrigg, a baronial house in the heart of the Borders, has a facade of crow step gables, a pepper pot turret and an elaborate entrance porch. |
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After an elaborate boat chase, the scene fades out and into the crew celebrating in a secluded area in the Alpines. |
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Paradoxically, considering the elaborate strategies for secluding the house, privacy disappears at night. |
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Call them artificial purgatories, but Welch's bare-bones constructions are at least as moving as any of Wilson's elaborate mini-symphonies. |
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This gave rise to variations culminating in the michelada, with a spicy base as elaborate as a secret barbecue sauce. |
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These colonies soon boasted yacht clubs, fox hunts, formal dinners, and elaborate banquets. |
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The elaborate floral displays of bikes and tricolours which many French villages put up were conspicuous by their absence. |
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Yesterday he vehemently denied deliberately hatching the elaborate scheme to trick Mrs Fretwell out of her home. |
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The traffic bandobast seemed quite elaborate and it amazed us that this was done four times a week up and four times a week down. |
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The northern tribes on the Northwest Coast, such as the Tlingit, wove the most elaborate textiles. |
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In style, portable furniture imitated stationary pieces but often lacked omamentation such as marquetry, inlays, or elaborate mounts. |
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In addition to elaborate marquetry panels and inset porcelain plaques, much of this furniture was accented with bronze mounts. |
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She had placed some diamond pins in her hair and was dressed in an elaborate black and white ball gown. |
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The Balinese thrive on custom and ritual, and they've crafted elaborate costumes and buildings to support those rituals. |
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The terse statement issued by both parties today didn't elaborate on the deal. |
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Vincisgrassi is a rich, wonderfully elaborate lasagne from the Marche region in Italy, which is to the east of Tuscany. |
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Laurie's hand automatically moves to cover the silver brooch, fingers tracing the elaborate curling leaves encrusted with marcasite. |
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The coat of arms with its elaborate rococo style mantling has almost no identifiable Chinese precedent. |
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The table makes use of the Japanese mortice and tenon joint, which is an elaborate and exacting piece of carpentry. |
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Other themes that arise out of basic science fiction are the elaborate medical thrillers. |
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They committed themselves to elaborate codes of behavior that included respect for women and a certain mannerly decorum. |
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My understanding is that this will involve countless man-hours and an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys, so it could take a while. |
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Keiley most often does it with elaborate choreography and striking acoustic and scenographic effects. |
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It was rather an elaborate military uniform, with golden tassels on the edge of its golden epaulettes and gold trim on the cuffs and collar. |
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More than 30 elaborate scarecrows are peering from hedgerows, fields and chimney pots, as part of the annual scarecrow competition. |
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As such, a department in the suitor's role often finds itself expending time, energy and self-esteem on what turns out to be an elaborate tease. |
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California uses both an elaborate report card and a school ranking based solely on test scores. |
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And to ensure uniformity in preparation, the restaurant used about 160 different pre-mixed spices in the elaborate preparation of the savouries. |
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The maker of this elaborate snowshoe has created geometric designs in the babiche weaving using black and red paint. |
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He went on to claim that she had made the whole story up to frame him in an elaborate ruse as revenge for his affair. |
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The sounds of children playing spill out onto the street from houses covered in elaborate patterns of azulejos. |
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The elaborate knit work on cotton and silk sarees from Dacca takes at least 12 days to complete. |
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I began learning to speak Kellian, a very elaborate language, similar in style to ancient Sanskrit, with great difficulty. |
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Whether in strophic arias, simple canzonettas or elaborate madrigals, Kiehr's singing is effortlessly lush and nicely emotionally understated. |
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Mountbatten gratified his ambition by staging an elaborate victory parade, at which he took the salute in Rangoon on 15 June. |
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Though chapter 4 does provide information on ancient Persian medicine, it would have been better if it had covered more elaborate information. |
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Gone were the artificial and outmoded divisions into three or four acts with scene changes and elaborate tableaux. |
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Above are four statues of the queen, set in elaborate canopied tabernacles. |
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He attaches a slightly more elaborate PDF document telling me what's wrong with the government's plans. |
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Contrary to their plain and simple overtones, I could imagine the dishes being used in elaborate Lucullan feasts. |
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A tall Atlantan man with a handsome physique and an elaborate mask spoke to them. |
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Surely it makes sense to avoid five rushers than to tease all eleven defenders on some elaborate option play. |
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It has a steeply pitched octagonal roof, drawing smoke and steam upwards from the great corner fireplaces to an elaborate central louvre. |
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The women had dresses that weren't too elaborate and the men wore lounge suits and long ties. |
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I am now running the bath, planning an elaborate meal for one and deciding whether to read, watch a film, go out or write something. |
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The result is a lordless, man-centered religion supported by an elaborate biblical system. |
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It's a grand pageant set in elaborate 17th century costumes of wigs, breeches, tights and ruffs. |
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A trip to a Leeds theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff. |
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More elaborate fare is on offer back up the path at Hotel la Portilla, where the restaurant looks out over the sea. |
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Most ethnic groups make big efforts at funerals, but Ashanti funerals are the most elaborate and expensive. |
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As documented in my earlier-cited works, there exists an elaborate Orwellian language for routinely dealing with unwanted dates. |
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His elaborate diction and exquisite articulation have since become a positive work of art. |
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The elaborate arrangements for the event extended to the provision of viewing facilities for the thousands of people who would come to the race. |
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Sheeshas are the big attraction here, elaborate glass and brass pipes filled with water and aromatized tobacco. |
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Her face was done up in elaborate shades of red and layers of red lipstick and gloss coated her lips. |
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The motives and ornaments of the sumptuously flowing white lace rochets were of the most elaborate and delicate kind. |
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During the ritual ceremonies and dances, Hopi men wear elaborate costumes that include special headdresses, masks, and body paints. |
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There was no elaborate ritual to follow, no waiting by the phone until Wednesday for a Saturday night date, no guessing whether he'd call at all. |
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Indonesians expect foreign executives to act out elaborate rituals of etiquette as a precondition for establishing a good working relationship. |
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Preceded by elaborate communal rites and rituals, its end is to restore harmony and reinforce the social fabric. |
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Isn't it obvious that such an elaborate grooming procedure would be left to after one has washed and dried one's hair? |
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Not wanting to blow my cover, I gave her an elaborate gang sign using both hands and most of my fingers. |
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This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc. |
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The members start wearing fancy dress and talking in riddles and inventing elaborate codes of conduct. |
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The large vases, jars, and bowls displayed are all richly decorated with delicate and elaborate blue underglazes. |
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A rhyton is a drinking vessel typically taking a horned animal shape in a metonymous gesture to its function as an elaborate drinking horn. |
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The founder of Stoicism, Zeno of Citium, developed a systematic and elaborate metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology. |
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Now, emperor is a royal title, bringing to mind divine bloodlines, elaborate coronations and incest. |
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Because the leverets are active at birth, elaborate nests are usually not built. |
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Hopelessly naive, Velma quickly learns to play the game, concocting ever more elaborate lies to fan the flames of her notoriety. |
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Note that the letterforms are slightly more elaborate than those in the early manuscripts. |
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A physical barrier can be as elaborate as a wood-framed cage of window screen, or as simple as a length of row cover. |
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Dogtown Skates introduced boards with elaborate graphic designs on the bottom. |
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A board fastened to your feet enables jumps and elaborate tricks to be carried out. |
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Each is topped by an elaborate zinc roof with wide overhangs intended to reduce insolation. |
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Their elaborate fabrics, woven on looms from cotton and alpaca wool, are known today because they were used in a type of mummification process. |
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But she wasn't ready to accept him yet, it could be an elaborate trap laid by one of the Four. |
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A second-story balcony is adorned with elaborate wrought-iron railings and windows framed by elongated pointed arches. |
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A new royal barge, emblazoned in silver and gold and with elaborate wainscoting, was commissioned, and trimmed with the king and queen's regalia. |
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In 1674, Shivaji elevated himself to kingship and in an elaborate ceremony in Hindu tradition proclaimed himself as a true Kshatriya. |
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She collected their gifts from the back of her car, two boxes with elaborate bows and ribbons and textured wrapping paper. |
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Anyway, this Professor Butz character has invented an elaborate electronic beer mat that sends out signals when the glass needs a refill. |
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Is it worth setting up an elaborate structure without knowing the commercial value of its intended output? |
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In India, the most colourful and elaborate celebrations take part in Bengal, where huge idols of the goddess are worshipped. |
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The parade is a riot of elaborate costumes and clothing with many of the get-ups real works of art. |
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This is manifested in the elaborate defensive works of banks and ditches erected to fortify dominating hilltops. |
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Civil emergency plans were repeatedly redrawn and elaborate dress rehearsals staged to cover every conceivable crisis. |
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He used to have a goatee like mine, and suddenly his wobbleboard sounded like some elaborate mating call. |
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Erin, Kelli-Ann and Marnie with their long flowing hair, just begging to be arranged into elaborate ponytails, braids and bunches. |
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Thousands of e-mail users have wiped a legitimate Windows file from their computers in the past week following an elaborate hoax virus alert. |
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Some people are only up for an elaborate piece of mime, also known as air-kissing. |
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You don't need an elaborate set-up to paint your window box before planting it. |
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With characteristic quarrelsomeness Janet responded rebukingly to an elaborate compliment. |
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Plants have developed elaborate mechanisms to protect themselves from invading pathogens and aggressors. |
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Jewelry is another Kenyan art form, and includes elaborate silver and gold bracelets and various forms of colorful beadwork. |
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Northern Ireland were the last winners of this sadly defunct competition and the elaborate silver cup is in their keeping. |
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Exchange or ransom was to be strictly according to rank, as specified in elaborate tables. |
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Two boys suddenly exploded into the square on their bikes, performed some elaborate wheelies and were gone. |
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On the other hand, the action is much more elaborate and the entertainment factor is ramped up a good bit. |
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Throughout history, Africans have imported glass beads and used them for adornment and elaborate beadwork. |
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Some languages, such as Japanese, have elaborate systems of pronouns to mark the relationship between addresser and addressee. |
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Like other radiolarians, Acantharea have an elaborate mineralized skeleton. |
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The ceremony is followed by an elaborate dinner with multiple speeches and the formal cutting of a Western-style wedding cake. |
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The other main form of visual art is silk and cotton woven cloth with elaborate and subtle patterns and colors. |
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Every young girl was supposed to be able to weave cloth and do elaborate embroidery. |
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These establishments feature swimming pools, spas, or elaborate water parks for their clientele. |
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Cameos and intaglios were often mounted as rings, worn as amulets or brooches, and sometimes even mounted on elaborate Gospel book covers or reliquaries. |
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One of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century, Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces is an elaborate articulation of the monomyth. |
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Mother used to cook elaborate dinners, but with only herself to cook for, she doesn't bother anymore. |
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But the most fascinating sections are the germinal passages upon which agee would build and elaborate in the final version. |
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Another piece might cause people to come up short is an elaborate green Burmese Buddhist alms bowl on a stand covered in gold. |
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On September 17th, the elaborate home will be auctioned off at a bancruptcy auction run by Fisher Auction Company. |
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It seems inevitable that after the elaborate opening service, the tower will still be known as Big Ben. |
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The majority of this album is built up around similar ambiences as the trio elaborate poignant melodies and impressive arrangements, complete with guitars, strings and horns. |
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A lot of the hip people represented by her agency, Artists by Chloe, also smoke these elaborate digital devices. |
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Instead, the report details an elaborate scheme to circumvent campaign finance laws. |
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You can set up a quick-and-dirty test to generate ballpark values, or a more elaborate test to discriminate between populations that may be very similar. |
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Like many African communities, the Acholi believe that deep social rifts are caused by killings and require elaborate reconciliation mechanisms to restore fractured relations. |
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Other superbly enamelled and jewelled reliquaries were on display, too, including the hugely elaborate casket of the 12 th-century Abbot Boniface. |
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Freeman has imagined an elaborate narrative set in a fantastic world, but he creates it from the easily overlooked sections of our quotidian existence. |
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The shirts are comfortable and elaborate and the suits feel relaxed yet durable. |
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Along with their other accessories, the warriors' elaborate dress suggests that they brought both wealth and pageantry to combat, which Donnan likens to medieval jousts. |
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Sponging, rag-rolling and verdigris are some of the more popular faux finishes, but elaborate techniques such as wood-graining and marbleizing also are catching on. |
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His most elaborate camera maneuvers seemed almost diabolical in their complexity. |
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The work is done purely by hand, and through a series of 10 whetstones, the blade is filed down, sharpened, and finished with an elaborate wavy pattern. |
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He values all of his customers whether they are shopping for an elaborate piece of box topiary priced in the thousands, or a couple of pot plants. |
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Among the myriad rebuses on the aforementioned double-sided sheet at Windsor, there is an elaborate one on the verso that includes an image of a black yarnwinder. |
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With their stately stature, wingspreads as broad as eight feet, loud calls, and elaborate courtship dances, cranes are among the most impressive birds in the world. |
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If a 14-year-old with a Net connection could move markets and make a killing, all that supposed training and experience of financial analysts was an elaborate fiction. |
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Though this could easily be the elaborate set up for one of your dad's dinner-table knee-slappers, this is the true-to-life plot of a theatrical venture called Oh No, A Condo! |
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Her hair was twisted in an elaborate knot at the back of her head. |
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Consequently, more elaborate beadwork, such necklaces, wristlets, anklets, aprons, vests, hats, and chest pieces, came to be associated with the status of a married man. |
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After all, we have digestive systems accustomed to processing foods far more elaborate than blood. |
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It's here where Oldham's audience is forced to decide whether or not this whole project is just an elaborate joke to frustrate and alienate his fans. |
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He was in the kitchen, preparing an elaborate plate of kibble for Beryl, a scarred alley cat he had recently acquired while searching an abandoned house for valuables. |
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You'll notice yourself doing a double-take when you read this because it sounds like an elaborate prank from the Onion. |
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For the happiness and the amour propre of the people living within it, in order to make them proud, the great city requires the elaborate display of otherwise useless emblems. |
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Oil from its tanks is still seeping out and threatening local wildlife, despite elaborate efforts by the Ministry of Defence to contain the leaks. |
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In that year she traveled to Venice and commissioned the Salviati company to design the elaborate interior and exterior mosaic decoration for the church. |
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The commission attempted to elaborate on the legal side of reunification. |
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Clothes came down the runway in a variety of splashy colors, with elaborate brocades and farfetched inspirations. |
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Overall, it was a somewhat average show, bolstered by plenty of eye candy in the form of an elaborate set and extravagant lighting and special effects. |
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He declined to discuss why the RDIF chose his firm or to elaborate on the specific media services provided to the fund. |
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The elaborate April Fool hoax pulled in more than 100 intrigued visitors to the village of Weeley as they flocked to see Essex's answer to Stonehenge. |
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Along with his gang of loyal criminals, he commits daring daylight robberies and elaborate heists that anger the police while stirring the public's imagination. |
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The arbours were wooden dining halls, surrounded by a hedge and ditch with an elaborate entrance, that were used as places of entertainment and feasting. |
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Being premillenialists, however, they were not Biblical literalists and had no problem constructing elaborate symbologies from, for example, the book of Daniel. |
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Artists in both movements were social realists, with the Romantics known for recovering older forms and the Victorians known for highly elaborate language. |
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She had several ropes of long black beads around her neck which she absent-mindedly played with in her hand, and her thin hair was done up in an elaborate style. |
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German authorities are investigating an elaborate art-forgery ring that fooled the funnyman and even Christie's experts. |
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Onstage, a trio of dancers in elaborate underwear sway lazily to generic synth beats. |
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We feel the artificiality of the political experience and the politician, who finds his way to us only through elaborate staging and multiple lenses. |
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The occasion was of a grander scale, of course, and a much more elaborate production. |
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Some of these early reptiles had elaborate sails on the back. |
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When the nayika has decided on dedicating her life to Tyagesa, the squares and circles are too elaborate and she seeks a diagonal route straight to the deity in the sanctum. |
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Particularly notable are an early nineteenth-century Windsor armchair with an elaborate fretwork back and a rare early eighteenth-century silver tankard. |
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The babirusa's elaborate upper tusks are the upper canine teeth, whose sockets are reversed, so they grow vertically up through the skin of the snout. |
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Everything zips along at a brisk and comedic pace for the first half hour, with an elaborate scam to rip off a load of smuggled goods being set up. |
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It was first applied in the Theatre of Dionysus at Athens in the second half of the 5th century BC, when drama began to require more elaborate scenic arrangements. |
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He resisted all the temptations embraced by most modern travelers and explorers to carry elaborate equipment, study the area in detail and learn the language. |
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It appears as an overly elaborate annex or perhaps a sci-fi installation. |
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All this elaborate housing would still be neat, but nonetheless inconsequential, if it didn't match the music it housed, though, and on that score, it succeeds again. |
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Hand-held scraps of sandpaper are the best option for pressing into elaborate cornicing and mouldings, leaving your hands crying out for Vaseline afterwards. |
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She remained in the infirmary after returning to jail, and Carter declined to elaborate on the nature of her medical condition. |
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When the persistent passive-aggressive Nice Guy act fails, do they step it up to elaborate Steve-Urkel-esque stalking and stunts? |
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This brief description of the plot of Cabaret does not really describe the story of the film, since it fails to elaborate the film's themes, ideas and morals. |
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Medieval physicians created even more elaborate theriacs to dose a plague-dreading populace, for whom the possibility of a cure-all didn't seem too wild a notion at all. |
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We sat on a sofa next to one of the actresses who played a bar person, and I struck a conversation with her regarding her elaborate costume jewelry. |
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One cannot but be awed to consider how the crowded mural of Bleak House or the elaborate tapestry of Little Dorrit were held together on semi-monthly basis. |
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I would elaborate further but college beckons, so bring it on! |
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They are often provided with sentry boxes to protect them against inclement weather, and the posting and relief of sentries is often the subject of elaborate ritual. |
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He is buried in an elaborate tomb in New York, a place he never liked. |
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For starters, most of the antislavery content dropped out of the stage shows as producers concentrated on elaborate set pieces that could entertain or enthrall audiences. |
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I spent years writing a novel in which three characters get pulled into an elaborate and tentacular conspiracy. |
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Each track is a deliberate layering of textures and elements, with every microtone sounding as fussed-over as the sculpted icing on an elaborate wedding cake. |
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Lyman admitted that his friends were skeptical about his motives but he denied suggestions that this was an elaborate ruse. |
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Man and Superman is a tough play to mount, for its length, its changes of scenery, its elaborate Shavian philosophizings and unremitting cascades of iconoclastic wit. |
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And in both countries, U.S. major-league teams have set up an elaborate and formalized recruiting network. |
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Cole discusses such sensitive topics as female impersonation and minstrelsy in order to deconstruct and elaborate on the many nuances of the concert party theater. |
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It was not until the spring of 1918 that angel rumours were again spread through the elaborate grapevine that had developed in the trenches of the Western Front. |
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The State Opening is an elaborate ceremony showcasing British history, culture and contemporary politics to large crowds and television viewers. |
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Minoan pottery was characterized by elaborate painted decoration with natural themes. |
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The king's son, Charles II, later planned for an elaborate royal mausoleum to be erected in Hyde Park, London, but it was never built. |
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On special occasions, various other lamps may be used for puja, the most elaborate having several tiers of wicks. |
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However, it was reliably learnt that elaborate efforts were made to refloat the submarine. |
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His English coronation took place on 25 July, with elaborate allegories provided by dramatic poets such as Thomas Dekker and Ben Jonson. |
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The shortage of labour also helped advance the transition from the Decorated style of building to the less elaborate Perpendicular style. |
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They have a wide discus, a narrow shoulder and no handle, elaborate imagery and artistic finishing, and a wide range of patterns of decoration. |
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This lone relic was reburied in 1642 with a new marker, which was replaced 100 years later with a more elaborate monument. |
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An elaborate court ceremonial developed, and obsequious flattery became the order of the day. |
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The Church of St Nicholas and St Magnus in Moreton is noted for its elaborate engraved glass windows designed by Laurence Whistler. |
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No surprise, then, if Barbier's reflection on the contemporary body involves an elaborate reformulation of sculpture. |
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Calvinists rejected ornamentation in places of worship, seeing no need for elaborate buildings divided up for the purpose of ritual. |
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In his Abrams dissent, Holmes did elaborate somewhat on the decision in Schenck, roughly along the lines that Chafee had suggested. |
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He claims a variety of evidence suggests memories of this were preserved in later Irish tradition, and also makes an elaborate linguistic case. |
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These can be seen in the elaborate ritual coronation at the Stone of Scone at Scone Abbey. |
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Congregational psalm singing replaced the elaborate polyphony of trained choirs. |
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The use of silk increased, and courtiers of the later Empire wore elaborate silk robes. |
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However, her cute and breathless girliness was an elaborate cover up for a very clever young woman who was both ambitious and ruthless. |
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Most species create somewhat elaborate nests, which can be cups, domes, plates, beds scrapes, mounds, or burrows. |
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Some mediums have spoken in elaborate pseudolanguages while in a state of trance. |
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In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe. |
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The dino belongs to the chasmosaurine ceratopsid family, which are defined by elaborate frills on their skulls. |
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One of the most elaborate extant examples of this genre is a speech by Libanius, an ethopoeia of Medea as she is about to kill her children. |
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The greater Dionysia were held at Athens in March or April, and were celebrated with elaborate performances of tragedies and comedies. |
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East Cowes Castle was notable for its Gothic towers and turrets, and elaborate castellation. |
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For example, the Nuer of Sudan have an elaborate vocabulary to describe cattle. |
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Central to the activity of cosplay is elaborate costuming, though some cosplays are enacted using a game system. |
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Bull fixed the claw under a batten, strained like a sailor at the capstan, shirt off, arms chevroned by elaborate tattoos. |
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These decorative elements consisted of geometrical patterns, stylized plant motifs, and in more elaborate examples, human or animal figures. |
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I see now that her behavior was all part of an elaborate plan. |
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If I had any more room in my stomach I would have tried their Sumbul Malai Kofta or something from their elaborate dessert section as well. |
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Parallel to the military developments emerged also a constantly more elaborate chivalric code of conduct for the warrior class. |
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Isabel Wilkinson on the stunts, performances and elaborate contraptions. |
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It includes Kerala sadhya, which is an elaborate banquet prepared for festivals and ceremonies. |
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A Mughlai course is an elaborate buffet of main course dishes with a variety of accompaniments. |
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Late medieval Scottish churches also often contained elaborate burial monuments, like the Douglas tombs in the town of Douglas. |
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These males cluster around females and try to attract them with elaborate courtship displays and vocalizations. |
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The Weddell seal has perhaps the most elaborate vocal repertoire with separate sounds for airborne and underwater contexts. |
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The earth's interior is somewhat on the order of an elaborate amusement-park tunnel of love. |
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It included elaborate illustrations of seaweed and marine algae on folded leaves. |
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Italian cooks rely chiefly on the quality of the ingredients rather than on elaborate preparation. |
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White embroidery, lace, delicate tuckings, and elaborate ribbings rioted across the white of his short doubtlet, breech, and tight stockings. |
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Rieber proposed a more elaborate scenario, which included the animals dying of thirst or starvation, and being concentrated by mudflows. |
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Notable festival often feature processions which may include elaborate floats. |
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Females with altricial young typically build elaborate nests before they give birth and maintain them until their offspring are weaned. |
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Many species have elaborate courtship displays on the ground at dawn and dusk, which in some are given in leks. |
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The dinner was a parade of courses, each featuring foods more elaborate than the last. |
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The rockhopper penguin has distinctive feathers around the eyes, giving the appearance of elaborate eyelashes. |
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Nevertheless, the force of this message seems less powerful in the more elaborate pieces of the second half of the century. |
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Designs ranged from elaborate peacockery to sexy sheaths of black sequins, to puffs of lace topped with sparkling rhinestones. |
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Try the sliders stuffed with soft belly, wraps, spring rolls, elaborate salads, rabbit pie and lamingtons. |
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As the region developed, new organizations and political forms, pottery became more elaborate and varied. |
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An elaborate Venetian Gothic loggia of ogee arches and quatrefoils in circles served as an entry porch at street level. |
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Since the late 16th century, large polder areas are preserved through elaborate drainage systems that include dikes, canals and pumping stations. |
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It is particularly known for the elaborate Wagah border ceremony that happens at the border gate, two hours before sunset each day. |
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Most works were replicated with elaborate means involving collotype printing and pochoir coloring. |
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Within the next millennium, wares were decorated with elaborate painted designs and natural forms, incising and burnished. |
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Since the 10 century, rulers of Kilwa would go on to build elaborate coral mosques and introduce copper coinage. |
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The procedure to get a work permit is quite elaborate since the applicant should prove that no French jobseeker fitted the position. |
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When James came to the English throne, some elaborate pageants were staged. |
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Talented young men were selected through an elaborate process of imperial examination. |
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The largest and most elaborate examples display multiple human heads, with minor heads sometimes branching off from larger one. |
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Little is known of Maya merchants, although they are depicted on Maya ceramics in elaborate noble dress. |
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Rococo art was even more elaborate than the Baroque, but it was less serious and more playful. |
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Baroque art was particularly ornate and elaborate in nature, often using rich, warm colours with dark undertones. |
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Currie and Stuart focused on the elaborate gardens of the leaf-cutter ants, which use bits of foliage they collect to nourish their fungi. |
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Also, this stomate type may coexist on the same leaf with more elaborate types. |
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Many concerts showcased elaborate lighting and individualised screens reminiscent of U2's Elevation Tour and Nine Inch Nails' Fragility Tour. |
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The superfirms tend to become elaborate bureaucracies, with special patterns of recruitment, in-service training, and so on. |
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Traditionally, women wear elaborate flamenco dresses and men dress in their best suits. |
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She uses no assistants, light meter, fancy lighting rigs, nor elaborate studio sets. |
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At the first wind of adversity, its elaborate pretensions collapsed like a house of cards. |
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Following the signature in this case would be an elaborate monogram, the signatures of any witnesses, and then the seal. |
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Mechanical pencils have more elaborate casings which are not permanently bonded to the core. |
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Display books of the Gothic period in particular had very elaborate decorated borders of foliate patterns, often with small drolleries. |
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The company had a very elaborate number called Peron's Latest Flame, which musicalizes the opposition to Eva as she begins her climb to the top. |
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He would draw up elaborate plans for reorganizing the bureaucracy, which Emperor Wen of Han put into effect. |
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These pointers are often just simple points, but depending on the skill of the craftsman can be very elaborate and artistic. |
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On Saturday, elaborate altars lined the streets, paintings hung from underneath a tent and impeccably painted lowriders stood along the avenue. |
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Emphasizing knowledge of the Fa among the people, he proposed an elaborate system for its distribution to allow them to hold ministers to it. |
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The art form reached its peak in the late 8th century with the Book of Kells, the most elaborate Insular manuscript. |
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Choose a recipe like a traybake or sandwich cake which is easy to do and will give you confidence, then move on to more elaborate cakes. |
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