ornateness

It was a work of art, almost grotesque in its ornateness.

Then as now, not everyone found the style's ornateness and asymmetry appealing.

The ornateness of the room's furnishings seemed intensified by the glare.

The Hollywood factor undoubtedly contributed to the ornateness of the clothes.

Keeping time and playing the right notes seems basic, but many virtuosos become lost in their own ornateness.

Their apparel was distinctive too, because of its ornateness.

Indeed, the marriage of ornateness and spareness strikes an original pose.

Yet in its delirious ornateness, it is intensely artificial, like Baroque music.

Anna Oliver's costumes reflected the ornateness of the period.

Nevertheless there were writers who eschewed this ornateness and wrote in language easy to be understood.

I remembered being moved by the music, and astounded by the ornateness of the theater.

By 1883 brick boxes were being built to a plainer design, although 1884 saw some ornateness returning.

The curators stress the Victorian-era's ornateness of this boat.

Scientists have long debated the reasons for such ornateness of penile shape, or morphology.

He led the way unhesitatingly down deserted corridors that lacked the polished ornateness of the ground floor.

Maneki-neko come in different colors, styles, and degrees of ornateness.

Overwhelmed by its own literary ornateness, the work is nevertheless a window onto the exciting no man's land between popular and classical cultures.

The revival of interest in the style, beginning in the mid-1960's, followed the same path from simplicity to ornateness.

Vaux, he felt, had evolved toward the architectural ornateness associated with the City Beautiful movement.

Though these are ready-to-wear collections, they often assume the lavishness and ornateness of made-to-order clothes.

It is said that Salvador has a church for every day of the year, each one apparently built to outdo the previous in ornateness and luxury.

The architecture of the 1886 railway station is of note for its ornateness and excellent state of preservation.

After the ornateness of The Towers, the simple lines of the Hall always seemed to her a little ordinary, but nice.

But without ornateness.

They competed with each other in the ornateness of their headstones, the way jealous neighbours might compete in life.