The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

The Justice's elaborate examination of the legislative history of the provision in question suggests that Congress' purpose was merely to make unions suable.

The potters, in particular, had virtually eschewed freehand drawing, elaborate motifs, and the curving lines of nature, while yet expressing a belief that there was order in the universe.

An elaborate system of accounting and reports was worked out, and the trade was to be managed in the most scientific way.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

The idea that alternative mathematical systems might exist was very troubling to mathematicians of the 19th century and the developers of systems such as Boolean algebra made elaborate efforts to derive them from traditional arithmetic.

Mainly an architectural movement, Gothic was characterised by its detailed ornamentation most noticeably the pointed archways and elaborate rib vaulting.

In the 18th century, Baroque Art was replaced by the more elegant and elaborate Rococo style.

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.

Late in the era, elaborate barding was used in parade armour.

By that period, the shiny armour plate was covered in dark paint and a canvas wrap covered their elaborate Napoleonic style helmets.

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

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

It was a difficult shoot for Campbell who had to learn elaborate choreography for the battle scenes, which involved him remembering a number system because the actor was often fighting opponents that were not really there.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, most BBSes used ANSI to make elaborate welcome screens, and colorized menus, and thus, ANSI support was a sought-after feature in terminal client programs.

It was an elaborate production that included location shooting in the Truckee mountains with 600 extras, extravagant sets, and special effects.

He continued to refine his designs ; the most elaborate message he helped to develop and assemble was the Voyager Golden Record that was sent out with the Voyager space probes in 1977.

The larger ship was essentially an elaborate floating palace that counted marble floors and plumbing among its amenities.

The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

The war found him much too early, and its perils -- and especially its awful boredom -- were best forgotten in horseplay and elaborate practical jokes, and even now Doc had never found any stabilizing, sobering influence.

Most of the others became elaborate formal descriptions which most readers will never be able to decipher, and therefore may not stand up to automated debugging / compiling, just as a program might look good in review, but a compiler might find some interesting errors, and actually running the program written might find even more interesting errors.

Harry suggests they become friends, forcing him to elaborate on his previous rule about male-female friendships ; they can never be friends because the sex part gets in the way.

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.

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

Dave Kehr, in the Chicago Reader, wrote, " Richter seems to have invented an elaborate mythology for his hero ... but he never bothers to explicate it ; the film gives you the mildly annoying sensation of being left out of a not very good private joke ".

It is uncertain whether this is an elaborate hallucination, time travel to her personal past or an alternate universe where she was never turned by Angelus.

During the Second World War, the city of Kunming was prepared as a National Redoubt in case the temporary capital in Chongqing fell, an elaborate system of underground caves to serve as offices, barracks and factories was prepared but never utilised.

In the privacy of royal commissions, he continued to elaborate schemes for constitutions that never saw the light ; but Germany, disillusioned, regarded him as an adherent of Metternich, an accomplice in the policy of the Carlsbad Decrees and the Troppau Protocol.

But despite heavy German influence during the medieval period, the elaborate German system with titles such as Lantgraf, Reichsgraf, Burggraf and Pfalzgraf was never applied in Sweden.

An oft-repeated New York legend has it that Alva Vanderbilt had planned an elaborate costume ball with entertainments given by young society figures for her housewarming, but at the last minute notified young Caroline Astor ( Lina's youngest daughter ) that she could not participate, because Mrs. Astor had never formally called on Mrs. Vanderbilt.

During her stay in Chicago with her son, Mary spent large amounts of money on items she never used, such as draperies and elaborate dresses ; she wore only black after her husband's assassination.

He does not elaborate further so it will never be known if the Nervii were trying to entice the skirmishers onto their hidden position or holding them in play on the slopes in preparation for the planned rush.

Many of Freyssinet's designs were new and elaborate for his time — some of them so much so that they were never built, such as the Phare du Monde, a 2, 300 foot tower planned for the 1937 World Fair in Paris.

He reveals that he had never been to Boston, proving Paula's rape story to be an elaborate lie.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War in World War II, the city of Kunming was prepared as a national redoubt in case the temporary capital in Chongqing fell, an elaborate system of underground caves to serve as offices, barracks and factories was prepared but never utilized.

In order to preserve his life, he concocted an elaborate scheme by having an agent of his, a Coluan named Prin Vnok, use a time machine to travel to the End of Time itself and retrieve Doomsday, who had been left there by Superman and Waverider to ensure that he would never be a threat again, and use Doomsday as a new host body.

Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post states, " The movie never transcended its elaborate production work to achieve an independent reality.

The most notable film to use this technique was Terminator 2: Judgment Day, whose trailer featured an elaborate special effect scene of a T-800 Terminator being assembled in a factory that was never intended to be in the film itself.

The design of each site varied, but they were never very elaborate, just a magazine and storehouses for the mobilisation of troops, with limited defences.

He collected a large library and had an elaborate system of keeping common-place books, so that he could be turned on to write upon any conceivable subject with the certainty that he would bring into his article enough show or reality of special information to make it excellent reading for a not very critical public ; and his extraordinary faculty for never saying the same thing twice in the same way had a sort of " sporting " interest even to those who were more particular.

However, Julian has never revealed to Toni that his " marriage " is actually an elaborate lie concocted to keep Toni at arm's length.

Strangely, Enoch has a gun he never uses except in an elaborate hunting simulation.

In at least two episodes, Barney misconstrues information leading him to believe Andy is engaged, and involving the townfolk in elaborate schemes to celebrate an engagement that never occurred.