#elaborate

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. ↗

— Robert Welch

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A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior. ↗

— Will Wright

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But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal. ↗

— Asa Gray

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

— Sergio Aragones

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We're quite into graphics that are simultaneously two- and three-dimensional. But I can't really elaborate any further because it's not something - we haven't really perfected it. ↗

— Sean Booth

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I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work. ↗

— Andres Segovia

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There's a great argument about how many men he actually killed. People would tell stories and then as we all know as stories get told over and over again, they get embellished, facts get changed, elaborated upon, exaggerated. ↗

— Keith Carradine

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