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    embellishment


    1. And annoying him more each time he thought about it was the possibility, transparently hinted at by Quarles, that he was intended only to be an embellishment to the role she was playing, and not part of the mission


    2. embellishment of goods and available products in the


    3. We both shamelessly told the same stories again with a bit more embellishment


    4. The true story needed no embellishment


    5. He spoke plainly, describing the events without embellishment, though he revealed greater detail than when he had described it to Yazadril


    6. 6 When it is not possible to worship God in the tabernacles of nature, men should do their best to provide houses of beauty, sanctuaries of appealing simplicity and artistic embellishment, so that the highest of human emotions may be aroused in association with the intellectual approach to spiritual communion with God


    7. But spirit communion is not promoted by mere massive ornateness and overmuch embellishment with man's elaborate and ostentatious art


    8. I live a simple life without embellishment; there are no grandiose, extravagant luxuries


    9. Eventually, Stan was ready to listen to their problem; Max set out the known facts and suspicions, clearly and without embellishment


    10. Venus is love in the sense of infatuation, embellishment, art, creativity, sociability, the girlfriend or female lover, art for art’s sake

    11. When Mercury is located at either one of its elongation points (within five days of exact GWE or GEE) it is furthest from the sun, so the natives’ inner dialogue is developed to a high degree of refinement, embellishment, and decadence


    12. was just dreaming up an embellishment to the story that would make it


    13. So I told her everything I remembered, no embellishment, no speculation, just the bare bones of the dream


    14. No embellishment had been necessary


    15. Too many positions, too many details of sizes, kisses and embraces, embellishment and shampooing


    16. Men posed as women, women as young girls, not to mention age deception, career embellishment, and physical appearance manipulation


    17. All of them had been kept as true as possible to their original telling, but since they could not be written down there was obviously some embellishment over the thousands of years the village had been populated


    18. Tellson's (they said) wanted no elbow-room, Tellson's wanted no light, Tellson's wanted no embellishment


    19. My wish would be simply to present it to thee plain and unadorned, without any embellishment of preface or uncountable muster of customary sonnets, epigrams, and eulogies, such as are commonly put at the


    20. Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts;-- she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray

    21. See," he added, pointing to a place where the water trickled from a rock, forming a little crystal spring, before it found an issue through the adjacent crevices; "you may easily get rid of the Sagamore's daub, and when you come back I will try my hand at a new embellishment


    22. The chisel had made three or four of these attempts at embellishment over his nose, but had given them up without an effort to smooth them off


    23. As far as the embellishment or decoration of such places is concerned, there will of course be nothing to prevent the members of the congregation if they wish from doing any such work as that themselves in their own spare time of which they will have plenty


    24. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it


    25. The churches of Saumur owe much of their embellishment to her


    26. When you talked about notching ears and slitting noses I judged that that was your own embellishment, because white men don't take that sort of revenge


    27. Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby’s deserts;—she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray


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    Synonyms for "embellishment"

    embellishment ornamentation embroidery elaboration adornment garnish ornament frill

    "embellishment" definitions

    elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail


    a superfluous ornament


    the act of adding extraneous decorations to something