Inbar Lavi

I used to just go up to strangers and tell them really elaborate stories about who I was and where I was from and try to spice my story, which I didn't think was very exciting at all. That gave me a sense of life, a sense of excitement - but I don't do that anymore.

Israeli Actress

Leonard Cohen

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

Canadian Singer

Yngwie Malmsteen

People - myself included - expect a certain standard from me. I always have to elaborate or improve on my playing. My success hasn't made me at all laid-back. That relentless drive is still there.

Swedish Musician

Joel Coen

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

American Director

Gordon B. Hinckley

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.

American Clergyman

Peter Morgan

People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.

British Writer

Sergio Aragones

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

Spanish Cartoonist

Roddy Llewellyn

The last thing in the world I want to do is marry. I am too selfish, but I won't elaborate on that.

British Journalist

David Chang

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

American Chef

Mel Gibson

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Actor

Used to describe something well-planned with attention to a lot of details, often in written projects or events.

Context Matters

While 'elaborate' means detailed, it doesn't necessarily mean overly decorative or exaggerated.

Not Overdone

Often gives a positive connotation of thoroughness and effort, suggesting admiration.

Positive Impression

Requesting someone to 'elaborate' means asking for additional clarity or more information.

Clarification

Consider if extra details are necessary; over-elaboration can confuse or bore the listener.

Not Always Needed

When using 'elaborate' as an adverb, it's about the visual complexity and aesthetics.

Visual Detail

Usually implies human effort and creativity rather than nature's work.

Not Naturally Occurring

Speaks to a level of beauty through careful and intricate design.

Beauty in Complexity

Connotes that significant time and effort were invested in creating something.

Time Intensive

 it led to further elaboration of the theory and helped launch research into subjects like quantum information, now a thriving field with the potential to develop computers of unparalleled power. Unfortunately, the randomness of the measured results prevents science fiction scenarios,

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 Or worse, we seek revenge, in all probability thereby triggering the next phase in an escalating cycle of counter-revenge, which we see, of course, all over the world today. In short, when we're thinking like academics, we regard people as elaborate and complicated machines,

Why the universe seems...

 something from this simplicity of simple lines I went into a little bit of more elaborate subjects like we're actually making drawings accumulating thousands of yards of thread over a single surface from lines I went to dots now this is a

Finding the transformativ...

 here is the extraordinary way in which it uses silk the female usually builds at night and constructs this very elaborate web it's not just wide it's deep to make it she needs two flat surfaces one beneath the other and

Red Back Spider PIPE...

 after the rulers passed away ancient egyptians believed they then became gods to prepare their journey into the afterlife the rulers constructed elaborate tombs including the great pyramids at giza and underground

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 also an older patient a study done on hair cuttings buried with the girl revealed that her hair was elaborately braided just before she died perhaps as part of the sacrificial ceremony let me

Mummified Child...

 What bird has the most elaborate, the most complex, the most beautiful song in the world? I guess there are lots of contenders but this bird must be one of them.

Attenborough: the...

 An elderly woman named Rosalie was sitting in her nursing home when her room suddenly burst to life with twirling fabrics. Through the elaborate drapings,

How much of what you see...

 what bird has the most elaborate the most complex most beautiful song in the world i guess there are lots of contenders but

10 TOP Natural History...

 what bird has the most elaborate the most complex most beautiful song in the world

Elaborate

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