She was born into a line of Italian goldsmiths (her great-grandfather created sacred adornments for the Vatican).

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Other unlikely adornments are the baseball-size orbs sitting atop its legs, evoking traditional Indian ball-head war clubs.

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In the white foyer, an antique settee upholstered in natural linen and a simple domed light fixture were the only adornments.

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They were made as adornments, expressions of faith and to create a mood.

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If in the end the answer is negative, the world would at least have learned something useful: that these groups' extreme claims are not just rhetorical adornments.

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Slowly, they added a blazer here, a stretch leather legging there minimal silhouettes occasionally punctuated by spot-on adornments, like the perfect button or a textured stripe on a tuxedo pant.

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This might also explain the lady's modest adornments and the more expensive jewels of her daughter, who this portrait would help to legitimise as a member of the Titian household.

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But what I found as fascinating as the gold adornments and accessories was the pure physical dexterity and ingenuity that had to go into their creation and that of other, more prosaic objects.

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Joining the staggeringly-long list of lava lamps, seat coolers, deco lights, and other curious adornments, the USB hamster wheel is yet another incredibly novel way to make a spare USB port feel appreciated.

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