Meanings of elaborate theory in English

The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter.

With the patient this became an elaborate theory about an Egyptian custom or Egyptian influence.

Quite an elaborate theory, you observe; but the difficulty was to fit it to the individual.

A much more elaborate theory was advanced by Dr. Croll, and is still entertained by many.

The prosecution devised an elaborate theory that the Chamberlains had killed Azaria and faked her disappearance.

And yet it did not entirely satisfy him, so superior is the absolutely unknown to the most elaborate theory.

In constructing his elaborate theory of the Sonnets, Mr. Massey has committed many grave offences against the rules of criticism.

Here, he puts forth his elaborate theory of music and what it represents, and discusses Transcendental philosophy and its relation to music.

It wasn't the first time, however, that the chief inspector had an elaborate theory end up as nothing more than just that: an unsubstantiated theory.

All sorts of elaborate theories were advanced by some Garda sources to cast doubt on this second confession.

The fine-spun, elaborate theories about sex, so current twenty years ago, have fallen into almost complete desuetude among scientists.

In those pre-computer days, Reep's elaborate theories of match analysis were expounded in the old News Chronicle in an infinity of squiggly diagrams.

We find in the Avesta, and in the oldest portion of it, the tendencies which resulted afterward in the elaborate theories of the Bundehesch.

The concept of some massive reservoir beneath the ground was much preferred, and there were elaborate theories as to how it might be tapped.

Dust filters, they were generally believed to be, and elaborate theories concerning the atmosphere of the Overlords' home had been constructed on this slender foundation.