Dropping to my feet, I gave her an overelaborate bow.

It would have been overelaborate even for the grandest of grand balls.

In part this has been due to budget reformers making overenthusiastic claims for overelaborate systems.

She can also hem herself in with overelaborate arrangements and songs unworthy of her.

She spread her hands in overelaborate bafflement.

Amid the fretting Shapers in their overelaborate finery was a growing minority of others.

"Miriam, on the large assumption that this isn't an overelaborate joke, let me try to enumerate the objections.

The movie is as overelaborate as the criminals' scheme, and similarly doomed from the outset to fail (Scott).

A tall young man dressed in the sort of overelaborate cowboy outfit you would only see on the stage or in a technicolor musical film.

Harris gets this type of filthy rich wannabe perfectly right, down to the preposterous food served at his overelaborate dinner parties.

The scheme was overelaborate.

Gersen thought harsh thoughts concerning Ben Zaum and his overelaborate secrecy.

Quebar offered an overelaborate shrug.

The dark, ominous commercials were dense with clashing images and overelaborate special effects: a frightening carnival, angry animals, remote mountains.

Loudness, gaudiness and overelaborate stage machinery have taken over hit musicals whose melodic style seems indistinguishable from one show to the next.

A second query: What source was there back then, save for our overelaborate nervous circuitry, for the evils we were seeing or hearing about simply everywhere?

This contained his first critical attack, following the current practice of vituperation between writing-masters, on the overelaborate style of 'his brother Quills'.

At a time when overelaborate clothes are in disrepute, Mr. Klein makes one of his strongest statements in favor of simplicity.

And playing a premium-priced show at a club this small may give her the opportunity to shrug off her overelaborate concert arrangements and let her voice soar.

Though designers have pulled back from the overelaborate designs of last spring, they seem to have uncovered a new lode of creativity; the clothes look fresh without looking strange.

Therefore the clocks also did without the excessive ornamentation and overelaborate designs of the preceding Rococo style so typical of the Louis XV reign.

Sylvia's affectations - the plummy voice, the predatory gait - match her armor of overelaborate clothes, which include an outlandish hat that looks like a serving of profiteroles.

He and the screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have deftly rearranged some elements of the plot, unkinking a few overelaborate twists and introducing others that keep the action moving along.

Correction: December 2, 1999, Thursday An article yesterday about the art of food presentation in restaurants misspelled the surname of the artist whose paintings are recalled by some overelaborate dishes now falling out of style.

Denno looked at her in surprise, but she knew it was useless to tell him, just as it was useless to tell the French ambassador that his overelaborate bows and flowery speech were annoying rather than impressive.