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style and elaborate
In the 18th century, Baroque Art was replaced by the more elegant and elaborate Rococo style.
By that period, the shiny armour plate was covered in dark paint and a canvas wrap covered their elaborate Napoleonic style helmets.
Known as The Hype, the band members created characters for themselves and wore elaborate costumes that prefigured the glam style of The Spiders From Mars.
The 1712 edition, retitled Le Nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois, was increased to two volumes, and was written in a more elaborate style with extensive explanations of technique.
Dutch heraldry is characterised by its simple and rather sober style, and in this sense, is closer to its medieval origins than the elaborate styles which developed in other heraldic traditions.
The Ottoman style of mosque usually included elaborate columns, aisles, and high ceilings in the interior, while incorporating traditional elements, such as the mihrab.
A sense of tense controlled emotion expressed in elaborate symbolism and allegory, and elongated proportions of female beauty are characteristics of his style.
" This concentration rejected the elaborate style characteristic of the classical oration.
He also moved away from the International Gothic style and elaborate ornamentation of artists like Gentile da Fabriano to a more naturalistic mode that employed perspective and chiaroscuro for greater realism.
They had elaborate expressionist design sets, and the style was typically nightmarish in atmosphere.
The white wedding style was given another significant boost in 1981, when three-quarter billion people — one out of six people around the globe — watched Charles, Prince of Wales marry Diana Spencer in her elaborate white taffeta dress with a 25-foot-long train.
The style of armour that became popular during the second half of his reign featured elaborate fluting and metalworking, and became known as Maximilian armour.
The cemetery also offers a view of the changing style of death monuments in Ireland over the last 200 years: from the austere, simple, high stone erections of the period up until the 1860s, to the elaborate Celtic crosses of the nationalistic revival from the 1860s to 1960s, to the plain Italian marble of the late twentieth century.
Finally come the elaborate façades copied from the front of a Roman temple ; however, all traces of native style have vanished.
Chinese paper folding includes a style called Golden Venture Folding where large numbers of pieces are put together to make elaborate models.
* Singular Pleasures by Harry Mathews describes 61 different scenes, each told in a different style ( generally poetic, elaborate, or circumlocutory ) in which 61 different people ( all of different ages, nationalities, and walks of life ) masturbate.
The pointed arch lent itself to elaborate intersecting shapes which developed within window spaces into complex Gothic tracery forming the structural support of the large windows that are characteristic of the style.
Paarfi's old-fashioned, elaborate, and highly verbose writing is explicitly based on Dumas ', though with a dialogue style that is, at times, based on Tom Stoppard's wordgames in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ( according to Pamela Dean's introduction to Five Hundred Years After ).
A very elaborate style that she sometimes used was the thirteen-line sonnet.
Language is also important in relation to Tranio and Lucentio, who appear on stage speaking a highly artificial style of blank verse full of classical and mythological allusions and elaborate metaphors and similes, thus immediately setting them aside from the more straightforward language of the Induction, and alerting the audience to the fact that we are now in an entirely different milieu.
Most of these churches and basilicas are built in the Romanesque style, even though the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato is built in a rich and elaborate Baroque style.
Some suggest the title " Grammaticus " refers not to his education but rather his elaborate Latin style.
The style of the 1980s hardcore scene contrasted with the more provocative fashion styles of late 1970s punk rockers ( elaborate hairdos, torn clothes, patches, safety pins, studs, spikes, etc .).
The Durbar Room was built for state functions and decorated by Bhai Ram Singh in an elaborate and intricate style, with a carpet from Agra.

style and plots
In addition to the relatively looser constraints on character and message at lower budgets, the nature of B production lent itself to the noir style for directly economic reasons: dim lighting not only saved on electrical costs but helped cloak cheap sets ( mist and smoke also served the cause ); night shooting was often compelled by hurried production schedules ; plots with obscure motivations and intriguingly elliptical transitions were sometimes the consequence of hastily written scripts, of which there was not always enough time or money to shoot every scene.
Robert B. Lloyd makes the point that “ albeit the two prologues introduce plays whose plots are of essentially different types, they are almost identical in form …” He goes on to address the specific style of Plautus that differs so greatly from Menander.
For example, in his classic study Aspects of the Novel ( 1927 ), E. M. Forster harshly criticized Scott's clumsy and slapdash writing style, " flat " characters, and thin plots.
Several strong themes link the works in the Pym canon, which are more notable for their style and characterisation than for their plots.
The purpose was to divide up communal tribal land into individual allotments by household, to encourage a model of European-American style subsistence farming on individually owned family plots of or less.
It has three plots, the subplots being in the swift Latin or Italianate style with several disguises.
Yet, more often than not, though the setting was grittier, the violence more likely to be on-stage, and the style more colloquial, the plots were, as often as not, whodunits constructed in much the same way as the " cozier " British mysteries they were written in reaction to.
The early commercials were built on an upbeat, bubble-gum style tune, and featured a narrator ; many had plots that involved various villains trying to steal a corresponding food item, foiled by Ronald.
Although strongly influenced by Carr and Agatha Christie, he has a unique writing style featuring original plots and puzzles.
This is first seen in Russian Formalism through Victor Shklovsky's analysis of the relationship between composition and style, and in the work of Vladimir Propp, who analysed the plots used in traditional folk-tales and identified 31 distinct functional components.
Maeda was picked because of his artistic style which paid incredible attention to detail and for his ability to tell rather good stories with complex plots, unlike most erotic manga artists at the time.
During the 1880s, houses were built on small plots for Irish and Scottish immigrant labourers coming to Toronto ; Much of the housing is in the style of Victorian architecture row houses, which are moderate in size and exemplify true Victorian architecture.
The similarity in production, style and plots can be considered evidence of this intent.
His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.
It retains the style of The IPCRESS File — multiple plots twists, Gauloises cigarettes, grimy, and soot-stained British winter.
The company has been criticised for repeating plots, the inevitability of their happy endings, and a simple writing style, while fans have cited predictability as a key reason for reading.
They are responsible for creating and managing all aspects of a show's characters, style, and plots.
The dialogue is humorous, and the story is told in the trademark Altman style, with multiple plots and overlapping dialogue.
Richard Kelly's style is composed of Steadicam based tracking shots and camera movement in general, satirical elements ( as seen sparsely in Donnie Darko and much more prominently in Southland Tales ), comedy, drama, and enigmatic plots.
It was similar in style to the studio's considerably more successful The Flintstones, and it used several of the same essential plots and voice actors.
The neo-noir sub-genre refers to crime dramas and mysteries produced from the mid-1960s to the present that, while they are generally shot in color and do not always emulate the visual style of classic film noir, often borrow the themes, archetypes, and plots made famous by the film noir genre.
As he didn't want to get stuck with the same style and expectations he cancelled what was going to be his next project, with the script half-way finished, and skipped a couple of other ideas for plots he had previously planned to realize.
Smith's work is characterised by intricate, sometimes obscure plots and an interest in taboos and the occult, told in an elliptic, fractured narrative style reminiscent of Iain Sinclair or the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs.
The Gardens consist of several lawns with flowering plants, ponds with lilies, beds of flowers and ferns laid out in an Italian style, several plots of flowering plants, a variety of medicinal plants.

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