Some ornamental bokken are decorated with mother-of-pearl work and elaborate carvings.

The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe ( 2003-4 ), which includes The Phenomenon of Life, The Process of Creating Life, A Vision of a Living World and The Luminous Ground, is Alexander's latest, and most comprehensive and elaborate work.

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

Puccini had been considering an opera on this theme since he saw the play Tosca by Victorien Sardou in 1889, when he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

Fux applied the term " species counterpoint ", which entails a series of steps whereby students work out progressively more elaborate combinations of voices while adhering to certain strict rules.

Its features included isolation of victims from the outside world, elaborate roll calls and work details, the use of force and executions to extract obedience, and a strict disciplinary code for the guards.

Following the publication of Mysterium and with the blessing of the Graz school inspectors, Kepler began an ambitious program to extend and elaborate his work.

Nor is his work an attempt to elaborate normative criteria for " art.

* The Delani / Sonnabend Halls-recalling the intertwining story of an ill-fated opera singer, Madalena Delani, with a theoretician of memory, Geoffrey Sonnabend, whose 3-part work Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter suggests that memory is an elaborate construction that humankind has created, " to buffer ourselves against the intolerable knowledge of the irreversible passage of time and the irretrievability of its moments and events.

It comprises most of the work ( including his " Jesus among the Teachers of the Law ") of Jean Ingres, the celebrated painter, whose birth in Montauban is commemorated by an elaborate monument.

Geoffrey's story spread widely, appearing in more and less elaborate form in adaptations of his work such as Wace's Norman French Roman de Brut, Layamon's Middle English Brut, and the Welsh Brut y Brenhinedd.

This tradition of Solomon's control over demons appears fully elaborated in the early pseudographical work called the Testament of Solomon with its elaborate and grotesque demonology.

Wallace is an inveterate inventor, creating elaborate contraptions that often do not work as intended.

They were favored primarily as a way to show the world that the bride's family was so wealthy and so firmly part of the leisure class that the bride would choose an elaborate dress that could be ruined by any sort of work or spill.

More recent studies have demonstrated that most of the magistrates ' legal work was in civil disputes, and that there was an elaborate system of civil law which used the criminal code to establish torts.

On 7 May 1889 he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

Participants and their families work year-round to prepare their elaborate and humorous costumes, masks, decorations and floats.

In Rudraṭa's Kavyalankara ( 5. 15 ), a Sanskrit work on Poetics, the pattern of a knight's tour on a half-board has been presented as an elaborate poetic figure (" citra-alaṅkāra ") called the " turagapadabandha " or ' arrangement in the steps of a horse.

Leighton House, built for the artist Lord Leighton, has a conventional facade but elaborate Arab-style interiors, including original Islamic tiles and other elements as well as Victorian Orientalizing work.

This work reiterated and amplified the arguments in Bloody Tenent ; but it has the advantage of being written in answer to Cotton's elaborate defense of New England persecution, A Reply to Mr. Williams his Examination ( Publications of the Narragansett Club, vol.

While some jazz musicians had played at Carnegie Hall before, few had performed anything as elaborate as Ellington ’ s work.

Jane's needlework was reported to be beautiful and elaborate ; some of her work survived up to 1652, when it is recorded to have been given to the Seymour family.

Japanese chests are known as Tansu, known for elaborate decorative iron work, and are some of the most sought-after of Japanese antiques.

The company is never clearly defined in Road Runner cartoons but appears to be a conglomerate which produces every product type imaginable, no matter how elaborate or extravagant-none of which ever work as desired or expected.

As official chronicler of his order, he compiled the elaborate Historia de la merced, which occupied him till December 24, 1639, and still survives in manuscript.

He described the string construction of the ellipse and he wrote a book on conic sections, which was excellent preparation for designing the elaborate vaulting of Hagia Sophia.

An elaborate lottery is described as giving the maximum amount of chance in appointing patricians to particular offices, and care is taken to point out if two of one family are standing for similar posts.

Their live sets culminated in what they later described as " auto-destructive art ", with the band destroying their equipment in elaborate fashion.

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

Tora Bora was variously described by the western media to be an ' impregnable cave fortress ' housing 2000 men complete with a hospital, a hydroelectric power plant, offices, a hotel, arms and ammunition stores, roads large enough to drive a tank into, and elaborate tunnel and ventilation systems.

Kandinsky sometimes used musical terms to identify his works ; he called his most spontaneous paintings " improvisations " and described more elaborate works as " compositions.

Murasaki described his daughter's court activities: the lavish ceremonies, the complicated courtships, the " complexities of the marriage system ", and in elaborate detail, the birth of Shōshi's two sons.

She took to wearing elaborate veils and heavy makeup, which was described by gossips as having her face " enamelled ".

The back-story of the Snitch is the most elaborate of all the Quidditch balls, and its introduction ( so it is described in Quidditch Through the Ages ) came as the direct result of a game played in 1269 in Kent.

A particularly elaborate masque, performed over the course of two weeks for Queen Elizabeth, is described in the 1821 novel Kenilworth, by Sir Walter Scott.

Taught by his educated father, Statius was familiar with the breadth of classical literature and displayed his learning in his poetry which is densely allusive and has been described as elaborate and mannerist.

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

After his death, a huge collection of elaborate drawings were discovered, many in the form of maps and architectural renderings that described a highly personal fantasy exposition, including portraits of his mother as a neo-baroque building.

" Apelles seemed to have had a taste for elaborate allegory and personification, which he carried far in his rendering of Calumny, described by Lucian, in which an innocent youth is falsely accused by Ignorance, Envy, Treachery and Deceit.

In 1389 he wrote his Songe du Vieil Pèlerin, an elaborate allegorical voyage in which he described the customs of Europe and the near East, and advocated peace with England and the pursuit of the Crusade.

The mud brick and wood structures at first sight have been described as crude and simple in appearance, but a closer inspection reveals elaborate and delicate patterns on casements and doors, elegant pillars and pillar supports, and a very comfortable and airy living environment.

At the Osiris Temple in Abydos, these re-enactments are described as involving hundreds of priests and priestesses in the roles of the gods and goddesses, with 34 papyrus boats carrying the gods, a sculpture of Osiris inside an elaborate chest, 365 ornamental lamps, incense, and dozens of djed amulets.

In 1990, American soldier Teddy Temish was described as a Walter Mitty-like figure by a panel of Army psychiatrists who examined him after he was suspected of committing espionage for the Soviet Union, when his self-created persona as a spy was discovered to be an elaborate fabrication.

Even more scathing was Augustus Moore in the May edition of Time: A Monthly Miscellany, who declared: " In Mr haggard's book I find none of the powerful imagination, the elaborate detail, the vivid English which would entitle his work to be described as a romance ... it seems to me to be the method of the modern melodrama ".

Poseidon's horses, which were included in the elaborate sculptural program of gilt-bronze and ivory, added by a Roman client to the temple of Poseidon at Corinth, are likely to have been hippocamps ; the Romanised Greek Pausanias described the rich ensemble in the later 2nd century CE ( Geography of Greece ii. 1. 7 -. 8 ):

Originally, a Chinese-inspired legal system and constitution known as ritsuryō was enacted in the 6th century ( in the late Asuka period and early Nara period ); it described a government based on an elaborate and theoretically rational meritocratic bureaucracy, serving under the ultimate authority of the emperor and organised following Chinese models.

Automatisms are quite elaborate and may consist of combinations of the above described movements or may be so simple as to be missed by causal observation.

Either Henry VII or his son and successor Henry VIII may have caused a somewhat more elaborate version of the imperial crown to be made, which is first described in detail in an inventory of royal jewels in 1521, and again in 1532, 1550, 1574, and 1597, and was carefully depicted in a painting by Daniel Mytens of King Charles I in 1631.

He was crowned on July 8 of that year inside a large log " tabernacle " built by his followers, in an elaborate ceremony that featured a crown ( described by one witness as " a shiny metal ring with a cluster of glass stars in the front "), a red royal robe, a shield, breastplate and wooden scepter.