In bitter frustration, Xar slammed his hands down on the elaborately conceived rune-construct.

The most elaborately conceived, the most stately of all recorded British Coronations is past.

Richard Hull's pictures, in contrast, are all cool style, elaborately conceived and rendered, and set off by lavish white space.

Her installation-like fashion shows (for one called Run Store last fall, she invited critics and buyers to an elaborately conceived shop she had set up in the West Village) gained a cult following.

Hill villages dip down to the cactus-strewn central plains, where elaborately conceived rotunda churches and bell towers add a handsome vertical accent.

An elaborately conceived comedy seeking to celebrate the consolations of storytelling, it unfolds the tale of a Scottish tinker who dreams up imaginary worlds to keep despair at bay.

The Texas Commerce Tower has a base, a middle and a top, and the hole is an integral part of its elaborately conceived, 15-story culmination against the sky, as well as of the tower's symmetry.

Ms. Leibovitz created the apposite images - elaborately conceived and staged, technically flawless - each a testament to process.

Wagner proselytized for opera as an art in which all the elements - music, libretto, scenic design, staging - contributed to the whole, and Mr. Lepage's productions are elaborately conceived and choreographed down to the last shaft of light.

This elaborately conceived place is a cross between Atlantic City in its most rundown days and the childlike brightness of Pee-wee's Playhouse.