Significats de ornateness en anglès

He was well-clothed, but with a shade too much ornateness.

I remembered being moved by the music, and astounded by the ornateness of the theater.

Apologists for the building say that the profuse ornateness rightly suggests the richness of California's horticulture.

His English was a marvel of ignorant ornateness, like his vest and his watch-chain and rings.

Naivete is to be desired rather than ornateness.

He is also known for a series of rules on writing that, like those by George Orwell, stress clarity over ornateness.

The ornateness of it, the mannered swoops and swirls, surprised him- areactionthat the landlady apparently divined, for she said, Uh-huh.

The ruptured dome, graven and blackened by its own encrusted ornateness, pushed fatly at the towers that buttressed its enormous weight.

The taxicab surprised her by stopping suddenly before a brown-fronted residence adjoining an apartment-house of (more or less literally) meretricious ornateness.