garlanding

Words as such were so much garlanding, designed to mislead as often as not.

Decorative garlanding hangs across the tops of the four poles, bearing summer fruits, especially grapes and peaches.

Individually and as a group, the dancers made clear the garlanding, teasing progression toward the ballet's haunting final moments, with their hint of fate.

The rifling of the oyster Life, the garlanding of London's rarer flowers which kept colour in her cheeks, seemed stale, unprofitable.

Most of all, though, it caught all the ceaseless garlanding and sweetness of its Schubert score, and was sensitively rendered by Anne Lall, Murray Kelley and Mr. Hayes, a performer with a grave elegance and purity.