Word: ornamental
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...there is almost no colour so that the paintings might be called "symphonies in white light," are extraordinary examples of a technique which though fundamentally the old one, seems new on account of the new treatment of the subject matter. Many scenes are of interiors, where the tiling and ornament allows for a full polychromatic display...
...Only ornament: large shell comb...
Anita Colombo is everything that a Latin feels a woman should not be. Instead of being a voluptuous ornament to couch and fireside, mother of many, she is a spinster, an energetic, athletic, "emancipated" woman. Half-German, Jewish, she has a mop of un-waved blonde hair, a keen, sculptured face which powder & lipstick never have touched. Born in Milan some 35 years ago, she wanted first to be a tomboy. When Italy entered the World War she hurried off to the front, did Red Cross work, behaved (for a woman) preposterously: for gallant conduct she won the Bronze Medal...
Eden Tree is written in uneven rhymed lines that look jerky on the page but read easily. A parabolic narrative, its language stripped of ornament, it has few memorable lines (one of them: "There are always mornings and only some of them are good") but its cumulative effect is one of honesty, shrewdness, controlled emotion. It is better than most novels, which is more than can be said for most long poems...
...Post is a stablemate of the Hope diamond in the sense that it has been dangled as an ornament to its owner. In fact it has been said that the McLeans were credited with three social attributes in Washington: their huge estate, '"Friendship"; the Hope diamond (variously evaluated from $114,000 to $2,000,000) and the Post. The Post and Cincinnati Enquirer were part of the vast estate left by his father John R. McLean, who made a fortune in natural gas. But Ned's father had so little confidence in him that all real control...