Word: ornamented
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...film is black & white, not Technicolor; color feeds the senses and cloys the mind, and this is not a poem of sensuousness, but of sensibility. There is something approaching, if not quite achieving, absolute depth of focus. There is no pageantry and no ornament; the great, lost creatures of the poem move within skull-stark El-sinore-like thoughts and the treacherous shadows of thoughts. (Roger Purse's sets, as nobly severe and useful as the inside of a gigantic cello, are the steadiest beauty in the film. Next best: the finely calculated movement and disposal of the speakers...
...complained of the excessively high commissions charged by the Vatican for personal loans of $450,000 and 90,000,000 lire; he mentioned interest rates as high as 45%. Incredulous, the Pope glanced at the clock which, together with a tall white crucifix and a telephone, was the only ornament on his desk. There was just time to reach Monsignor Domenico Tardini, State Secretary for Extraordinary Affairs, before Tardini's daily siesta. Shown the letter, Tardini raised his eyebrows. "Banking and industry!" he exclaimed. In all his long diplomatic career he had never had anything to do with either...
...past when Britain's majestic liner Queen Mary had been the sleekest ornament in the luxury passenger service seemed almost like another age. For all the long war years the Mary's career had been grim and dedicated. But last week her widow's weeds were gone. After nine months of beauty treatments in drydock, she shone bridelike again as she glided away from a Southampton pier to take a two-day trial...
...there were miniatures of a lovesick youth leaning against a tree, entangled in roses; a grave young man fingering a locket against a background of flames. Their flesh tones had faded, but they still shone with immaculate drawing, clean, jewel-like color, and a fine use of lace and ornament to produce a sharp, flat pattern...
...white-mustached John Angel has been making statues for the unfinished Cathedral more than 20 years. One of a tailor's ten children, he grew up in the British cathedral town of Exeter, entered a Gothic studio as an apprentice ornament-carver when he was 14. Says Sculptor Angel: "I never went to school; I'm an ignoramus...