Word: embellishments
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...Merrick tells the story well, and undoubtedly it actually happened. But a listener finds himself mentally handicapping everything the producer says. The feeling arises that there may be, say, a 15% chance that the girl whacked Haigh in utter sincerity, and that Merrick merely uses the incident to embellish his reputation for villainous craftiness...
...headaches. In Chad, the Assembly wrangled for two days, and the 85 Deputies suggested 85 separate flags. In making its final choice, the government was careful to eliminate green, which for many Africans symbolizes Islam but in Chad is the color of the opposition party. Cameroun happily prepared to embellish its flag with a shrimp, since the country's name derives from the Portuguese word for shrimp, camarāo. Western observers hastily advised that world reaction might be derisive, and Cameroun settled for a prosaic tricolor...
...embellish the city, its churches and palaces he drew on the talents of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Lippo Lippi, Uccello, Luca della Robbia. The great monument to his ideal, a marriage between humanism and religion, was the San Marco convent, which Cosimo prevailed upon Pope Eugenius IV to transfer from the Sylvetrines to the Dominican Observants. Cosimo ordered his favorite architect Michelozzo to repair the building, richly endowed it with 400 rare manuscripts and classic statues of Venus and Apollo. To do the frescoes, Cosimo called on the great Dominican painter Fra Angelico...
...worry about figuring out the plot of this one; everybody has his own version, and it doesn't really matter. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall embellish the incomprehensible Raymond Chandler book with their own brand of loving, fighting, killing, and grunting, and that should be enough for anyone. William Faulkner is responsible for the scenario...
...asked for more details about his war record. Said Stringfellow: "Somewhere along the line, the idea . . . was integrated in introductions that Doug Stringfellow was a war hero . . . Like many other persons suddenly thrust into the limelight, I rather thrived on the adulation and new-found popularity ... I began to embellish my speeches with more picturesque and fanciful incidents. I fell into a trap, which in part had been laid by my own glib tongue." The facts, he said, were these: "I was never an OSS agent. I never participated in any secret, behind-the-lines mission ... I never captured Otto...