A meager description was furnished by Mr. Laurents, who refused to elaborate.

Henry Sweet did much work on the systematic description of vowels, producing an elaborate system of vowel description involving a multitude of symbols.

The post-biblical Jewish interpretations often elaborate the role of Isaac beyond the biblical description and largely focus on Abraham's intended sacrifice of Isaac, called the aqedah (" binding ").

In the beginning, Sanjaya gives a description of the various continents of the Earth, the other planets, and focuses on the Indian Subcontinent and gives an elaborate list of hundreds of kingdoms, tribes, provinces, cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, forests, etc.

Manichaeism presented an elaborate description of the conflict between the spiritual world of light and the material world of darkness.

The elaborate procedure was recorded by a 15th-century witness in an oft-quoted description: " he will lie upon his back, with his head covered and his feet, and one arm will be drawn to one quarter of the house with a cord, and the other arm to another quarter, and in the same manner it will be done with his legs ; and let there be laid upon his body iron and stone, as much as he can bear, or more ..."

It is an elaborate description that could never possibly be portrayed by a young boy actor.

The most elaborate description of his appearance comes later in the Táin:

Coming on the heels of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, the novel, widely studied in American schools, includes an elaborate description of incestuous rape and explores the conventions of beauty established by a historically racist society, painting a portrait of a self-immolating black family in search of beauty in whiteness.

The elaborate procedure was recorded by a 15th-century witness in an oft-quoted description: " he will lie upon his back, with his head covered and his feet, and one arm will be drawn to one quarter of the house with a cord, and the other arm to another quarter, and in the same manner it will be done with his legs ; and let there be laid upon his body iron and stone, as much as he can bear, or more ..."

Kropotkin's anarcho-communist writings, on the other hand, were structured logically and contained an elaborate description of the future anarchist society.

In the beginning Sanjaya gives a description of the various continents of the Earth, the other planets, and focuses on the Indian Subcontinent and gives an elaborate list of hundreds of kingdoms, tribes, provinces, cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, forests etc.

William Smith, a younger brother of Joseph Smith, and a key figure in the early Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( RLDS Church, renamed Community of Christ in 2001 ) gave several accounts of the First Vision, although in 1883 he stated that a " more elaborate and accurate description of his vision " was to be found in Joseph Smith's own history

In Tan's story, there is an elaborate description of the coming of Zao Jun.

* An elaborate fictionalized description of wootz steel manufacture is presented in Neal Stephenson's book The Confusion, part of Stephenson's three-volume work The Baroque Cycle.

According to a description written for publication by Antonfrancesco Cirni, he also designed many of the costumes for the famously elaborate wedding festivities of Ortensia Borromeo in March 1565, which were held in the Vatican and included a tournament in the Belvedere courtyard.

The following description is based on the badge coding system used before and during the early stages of the war in the Dachau concentration camp, which had one of the more elaborate coding systems.

Linga Purana and Mahanirvanatantra give an elaborate description of Batuka Bhairava in three aspects, and the results of their worship have also been explained elaborately in the texts.

An early extant prose work, the Vaddaradhane by Shivakotiacharya of 900 CE provides an elaborate description of the life of Bhadrabahu of Shravanabelagola.

There is an extensive and elaborate description of the Exposition's two famous buildings in the British journal Engineering ( 3 May 1889 issue ) with illustrations.

John's elaborate description of the New Jerusalem retains many features of the Garden of Eden and the paradise garden, such as rivers, a square shape, a wall, and the Tree of Life.

The dance follows the classical text of Hastha Lakshanadeepika, which has elaborate description of mudras ( gestural expressions by the hand palm and fingers ).

This dynamic reveals a spontaneity which many historians belonging to the functionalist school, following Hilberg's elaborate description, relied upon.

The fictional island nation was described in an elaborate seven-page supplement and has been revisited by the newspaper several times.

The Calusa were a powerful Indian nation who came to dominate most of Southwest Florida through trade and their elaborate system of canals and waterways.

An order tends to be the most elaborate of military decorations, typically awarded for distinguished services to a nation or to the general betterment of humanity.

The first major attempt was the Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects / which surveyed 2, 791 locations across the nation including 121 Wu locations ( a step up from the two locations in PKU's earlier surveys ) and led to the formation of an elaborate database including digital recordings of all locations which is unfortunately not available to the general public.

" Bibb's Annual Report on the State of the Finances for 1844 consisted of an elaborate compilation of statistics detailing the financial history of the nation since 1789.

P is deeply concerned with " holiness ", meaning the ritual purity of the people and the land: Israel is to be " a priestly kingdom and a holy nation " ( Exodus 19: 6 ), and P's elaborate rules and rituals are aimed at creating and preserving holiness.

Nevertheless, it became abundantly clear that the low scientific level of the nation could not possibly yield elaborate weapons.

Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.

The major department stores created elaborate Christmas time fantasies, using clockwork mechanisms that made people and animals appear to move.

Luthor later escapes after a whole year in prison, through an elaborate plot involving clones: first using a clone of the President to grant him a pardon, then kidnapping the real Lois and replacing her with a clone just before her wedding to Clark.

A more elaborate example is TLCE A, LOC ( read " Test Left Complement, skip if Equal "), which using the contents of LOC as a mask, selects the corresponding bits in the left half of register A.

However, Borland later decided it wanted more elaborate object-oriented features, and started over in Delphi using the Object Pascal draft standard proposed by Apple as a basis.

* Drug trafficking ; long-term and elaborate drug networks can also be prosecuted using the Continuing Criminal Enterprise Statute ;

The cotillion was a French import, performed in a square using more elaborate footwork.

This endless supply of elaborate competing explanations cannot be ruled out – but by using Occam's Razor.

For example, Euclid provides an elaborate proof of the Pythagorean theorem, by using addition of areas instead of the much simpler proof from similar triangles, which relies on ratios of line segments.

Many of them were exceedingly elaborate, incorporating subtly shaded colours, silk and metallic embroidery threads, and using stitches such as Hungarian, Florentine, tent, cross, long-armed cross, two-sided Italian cross, rice, running, Holbein, Algerian eye and buttonhole stitches.

Italian cinema went from utilizing elaborate studio sets to using the countryside and the city streets to provide a more " realistic " setting.

Stylists compete on deadline to create the most elaborate hairstyle using props, lights and other fantastic accessories.

It is a vastly elaborate social control system, using both brute force and subtle indoctrination, which disguises itself under the claims of scientificity.

However, Gondorff relents and decides to resurrect an elaborate and supposedly obsolete scam known as " the wire ", using a large number of con artists to create a phony off-track betting parlor.

* Sylvester spending the entire film using progressively more elaborate schemes or devices to capture his meal, similar to Wile E. Coyote in his ongoing efforts to catch roadrunners.

This enabled a curve to be described using an equation rather than an elaborate geometrical construction.

In 2007, an international team of researchers using satellite photographs and other modern techniques concluded that Angkor had been the largest preindustrial city in the world, with an elaborate system of infrastructure connecting an urban sprawl of at least to the well-known temples at its core.

Mesopotamian civilizations ( Sumerian, Assyrians, Babylonians, Chaldeans and Medians ) devoted great care to oiling and dressing their beards, using tongs and curling irons to create elaborate ringlets and tiered patterns.

Each week, Adam and Joe would re-create a popular current feature film using stuffed toys and elaborate cardboard sets.

Ever since demos started using complex ( as in, much more elaborate than cubes and donuts ) 3D graphics, graphicians that exclusively model 3D graphics are also around, sometimes referred to as ( 3D ) modelers.

Hafez often took advantage of the aforementioned lack of distinction between lyrical, mystical and panegyric writing by using highly intellectualized, elaborate metaphors and images so as to suggest multiple possible meanings.

The only thing he hates more than dogs are the Rescue Rangers, which he always tries to get rid of using an elaborate and slow methods, rather than killing them immediately.

In some cases, however, optimization relies on using more elaborate algorithms, making use of " special cases " and special " tricks " and performing complex trade-offs.

The Jurchen people | Jurchen army attacking the city walls using elaborate Chinese siege weapons were defeated by modern Chinese cannon artillery.

The idea of a Case Study house was to hypothesize a modern household, elaborate its functional requirements, have an esteemed architect develop a design that met those requirements using modern materials and construction processes, and then to actually build the home.