Word: embellish
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...Laurin and Tweedy, a victory in the Derby would embellish what has already become an unusual success story. Now 60, Laurin reportedly was on the verge of retiring to his native Quebec in 1971 when Tweedy hired him "on an interim basis" to replace his son, Roger, who had moved to the stable owned by Ogden Phipps. The elder Laurin promptly produced the stable's first Derby winner, Riva Ridge, which took last season's Belmont Stakes as well...
...most ancient civilizations, jewelers made little use of precious stones-and when they did, they used them to embellish essentially sculptural designs. It was only in later times that gems themselves became jewelry's raison d'être: partly because craftsmen learned to cut them to reveal their undeniable beauty, partly because they were believed to possess and emanate magical powers. As late as the 15th century, emeralds were prescribed as cures for epilepsy, dysentery and failing eyes, as guards against evil spirits and sure protectors of chastity. By the 20th century, says English Jewelry Expert Peter Lyon...
...statues, still covered with some of the decorative paint used by the Greeks to embellish their marble carvings, were found only eleven inches below ground in a field 25 miles southeast of Athens by a team of diggers headed by Archaeologist Efthymios Mastrokostas. After discovering some ancient burial urns, they came upon the figures of two young people, lying side by side facing each other. Such treasures, Mastrokostas is convinced, could only have been placed in the earth for safekeeping in a hour of peril...
...darker, more malevolent Satanists give only rare and tantalizing hints of their existence, and none at all of their numbers ?probably for good reason. Sociologist Marcello Truzzi of Florida's New College at Sarasota observes that one variety of this underground Satanism consists primarily of sex clubs that embellish their orgies with Satanist rituals. A larger variety, he says, are the drug-oriented cults, whose members improvise their Satanism as they go along...
James Taylor plays guitar and sings backup on much of Willard, but because of Stewart's refusal to embellish his powerful songs with either violins or vague emotional symbols, Willard maintains a hard-edged integrity missing on Taylor's own albums. Stewart even managed to write a sensible rock song about Jesus Christ, making the simple claim. "I do believe I'd of been a friend of Jesus in his time...