Word: ornamented
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There is no denying that "the world is still deceived with ornament"; consequently, the world is full of "smart writing." It is easy to arrest interest by the statement of extremes by pointing in humid, blesrre colors: every back writer known this. But what is the worth of all this dilettante writing which delights in dressing up half-truths in racy jargon and in tickling the fancy by turning commonplaces into paradoxes by standing them on their heads; the latter requires only a bit of sophistry which comes easily. For my part, I heartily disapprove of attempts of English instructors...
With a capacity of two and a half quarts, the crude cup is of silver and devoid of ornament. Its rim has been turned to make a smooth surface for drinking. It rests in a loose silver filigree holder of elaborate workmanship which shows, in a framework of vine leaves, birds and flowers, two figures of the youthful and the mature Christ and ten Apostles and Saints. All the faces are individual portraits. Though there is no way of dating the inner cup, most experts seem to agree that the large outer holder was made not later than the last...
...brick covers a multitude of shades, and the red of Virginia is softer and warmer than that of Massachusetts. The alternating long-and-short pattern of the bricks ("Flemish bond") is accentuated by the deeper-burned color of those laid head outward (the "headers"). In short, without "applying" sculptural ornament of any kind, a less Puritan, more decorative effect has been achieved...
...standards of value have changed since the Victorian are, the utility and structure guild replies. We so longer build colleges, or anything else, in the "General Grant" Goths of the dark and stuffy interiors, then fronts tortured with ornament...
Machine age esthetic stimuli are found in straight forward, business like buildings, where our Victorian grand parents insisted on gingerbread ornament from which to drape their tendrils of memory and affection." The sentimental Victorian distinction between "architecture" and "Building" no longer prevails for the modernist...