Along the way, her virtuosic gospel embellishments enhance the emotion and never seem merely ornamental.

No, she reminded herself; no vegetation in the dome was merely ornamental.

Some were merely ornamental, like a bead.

They prized the practical and shunned the merely ornamental.

Through their work jewellery ceased to be something merely ornamental but attained a level of artistic and symbolic importance it has rarely equalled since.

Although some, like those on the Eggleston archway, are functional, the majority are merely ornamental.

It was functional, not merely ornamental, and that, Alexander thought,was an extravagance.

Only the four windows closest to the transept admit light; the other two are merely ornamental.

In case you didn't know it, those ration books are not merely ornamental.

It had an official look, however, and there was nothing merely ornamental to be seen.