Word: embellishes
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...detailed chronology of Rozanova's life, the crowning achievement of the work. Gurianova's remarks about the evolution of avant-garde styles from long-standing traditions in art and literature are insightful. In her chapter on "The Futurist Shift," Gurianova draws a connection between Rozanova's lithographs made to embellish Kruchenykh's narrative poem Game in Hell and the "denizens of the underworld" of Gogol and Pushkin. Noting how Rozanova, in one of these lithographs, "Naked Witch with a Broom," plays with physical forms, assigning a witch's head to a devil's body and vice versa, Gurianova develops...
...honest discourse. Elections are often about the energy displayed by the candidates, a sense of experience with decisions made under pressure and a perceived quality of inherent honesty. The vice president, whom I have often admired, knows this very well. It is not too late for him to embellish less, qualify less and declare more...
...that's not the story. The story is that--you always embellish the story--we were doing a stretch, and it involves your gluteus, and he said I was the least flexible, the worst he'd ever seen in his 20 years--and I told him I was overdeveloped...
...Jacko have sat down there to enjoy the duck. To eat anything that won't require taking out a second and third mortgage, try trekking over the bridge to West Palm Beach, where affordable fare is the norm. Eateries on Clematis Street, the heart of downtown, embellish standard TGI Friday's fare with sundried tomatoes, raspberries or both...
...local merchant and town official, would almost certainly have attended the Stratford Free School. And Elizabethan grammar schools offered a formidable education in Latin, including oratory and letter writing in the style of characters from classical myth and history. Students also had to be able to expand and embellish on existing literary works, much as Shakespeare did with Henry V and Julius Caesar. People shouldn't be surprised that a commoner should write so knowingly of the nobility. All playwrights wrote about aristocrats. Says Bate: "What is much harder to imagine is an aristocrat like Oxford reproducing the slang...