But these soon gave way to color and feather embellishment and fantastically dizzying prints.
Clearly embarrassed of his potential sexiness, Phillip left the embellishment to his vocals onstage.
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The idea that Atlantis was also an advanced, utopian society may also be an embellishment.
Contemporary materials are lighter, with synthetic blends, stretch, embellishment and texture all of which make clothes look modern.
Such descriptions as they left of their work are as shorn of embellishment as the granite stonework.
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The handles boast another embellishment meticulous pierce-work around each flower, calculated to lend not just complexity but visual lightness.
It uses silver light-fixture pull-chains and safety pins, not as embellishment but as structural elements in a fairy-tale transformation.
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Plato also reports that volcanic activity sank Atlantis, but this may have been a case of embellishment, says Collina-Girard.
Mr Zedillo reformed pensions, switching from a pay-as-you-go system to Chilean-style individual capitalised accounts for new workers, but with one embellishment.
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While it's sometimes hard to know whether Fenn's zest for "embellishment" adds to his stories, military records emphatically back this chapter.
On Sept. 11, their hair stands on end and their eyes bug out with comic-book embellishment as they watch the disaster unfold.
They create choice points to avoid getting weighted down with fruitless rules, while also maximizing diversity, inviting embellishment, and encouraging exploration and experimentation.
The role of landscape architecture is once again one of green embellishment, adding parks here and there, rather than sustainability agenda-setting through thought-provoking design.
Embellishment can precede structure, like a tree sprouting leaves before branches.
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The propaganda value of this tale was enhanced by the fact that it is all true (apart from the bit about the ground glass, a later embellishment).
Embellishment textiles are mainly done by women thus the Project will aim at enhancing incomes of the women which was limited to spinning cotton and woolen yarn.
It is thus proposed to provide further inputs and add value by incorporating embellishment of the hand woven fabric and introduce motifs and designs to attract the modern consumer.
These incidents, embarrassing though they be, fall within the acceptable range of victimless embellishment, those exaggerations that burnish a humdrum existence, amuse our listeners or impress a potential employer.
Kristy Caylor, co-founder of fashion label Maiyet, which makes two-faced fine jewelry, said the practice of hidden embellishment dovetails with the brand's ethos of old-school craftsmanship, sourced around the globe.
It features vivid photographs of 250 versions of the Baguette in every imaginable color, fabrication, embellishment and size, plus those especially created by artists like Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Richard Prince.
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The show contains 150 examples of "the most extraordinary shoe styles of the 21st century, " which means designs from the past 12 years that are the nth degree in embellishment, abstraction and transgression.
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But last month, in a 7-to-2 decision, the Supreme Court agreed with Janet Reno's Justice Department that there was nothing in the text of the law that made it okay to lie without embellishment.
It has the approval of Mr. Marx and his predecessor, Paul LeClerc, under whom it took shape, and a 60-member board of successful business leaders with a few writers and scholars for literary embellishment.
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Then there is the surface embellishment exuberant, zealous, over-the-top.
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When Kate Winslet put Ben de Lisi on the map by walking the red carpet in 2002 in his red sleeveless dress with the flowered shoulder embellishment, the designer remained unaware until the next morning.
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Every great story, he says, deserves embellishment.
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Southern Vietnamese live large compared with the agriculturally poor central Vietnamese who eat delicate, small servings, and the hard-core traditionalists in the north who adore pure flavors and eschew the sweetness and extravagant embellishment characteristic of the south.
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