8 sentences with 'elaborate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word elaborate and other words derived from it.
• « For example, among the followers of Carl Jung, the analyst helps the patient to elaborate his or her ideals of life, and the same is true in the trend following the ideas of Alfred Adler, where the therapist is also a counsellor. »
• « It was not an elaborate game: anyone who wanted to "get" something from the royal government (e.g. have a son appointed as an army officer, join an elite royal academy of scholars, secure a lucrative royal pension, serve as a diplomat abroad, etc.) had to convince the king and his officials that he was witty, poised, elegant and respected at court. »
• « During the heyday of its construction, 60% of royal revenues went to fund the elaborate court at Versailles (this later fell to 5% under Louis XVI, but the old figure was well remembered and resented), a huge ongoing expense that nonetheless underpinned royal prestige. »
• « The classic example of the latter was to take the idea that the Earth is the centre of the universe as a fact, and then try to force the observed motions of celestial bodies to make sense through elaborate explanations. »
• « Medieval astronomers tried to explain these differences by increasingly elaborate caveats and modifications to the idea of simple perfect orbits, positing the existence of enormously complex paths supposedly taken by various celestial objects. »
• « Meanwhile, the revolutionary government created a subsistence committee to develop and elaborate a system of price control, requisitioning and monetary regulation, backed by police power. »
• « As a result, there was a continuous and elaborate diplomatic dance as each power tried to shore up alliances, seize territory around the globe, and outmanoeuvre the others. »
• « Theorists such as Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida (both French) argued that the author's intention in writing was meaningless, because the text was completely separated from the author at the moment of writing. They also both worked to demonstrate that texts themselves were nothing more or less than elaborate word games, with any implied 'meaning' simply an illusion in the mind of a reader. »