over-elaborate

In Britain, the baroque had been associated with papal conspiracies and over-elaborate decoration.

Borromini: the first architect 2011

How, though, did he prepare for the shoot and avoid the pitfalls of so many royal portraits: the over-elaborate settings, the empty gaze, the cliched compositions?

Thomas Struth: photos so complex 'you could look at them forever' 2011

So hour after hour passed, through which, between vain attempts to sleep, I managed to wade through many pages of Rosny's Le Termite -- a not very cheerful proceeding, I must say, concerned as it is with the microscopic and over-elaborate recital of Noel Servaise's tortured nerves, bodily pains, and intellectual phantasma.

CHAPTER XI 2010

I fell into a trap that was common in the underground scene—full of artists trying to be over-elaborate and too deep, using words they had no idea about but sounded cool, spitting out grand words like OSMOSIS!

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

How, though, did he prepare for the shoot and avoid the pitfalls of so many royal portraits: the over-elaborate settings, the empty gaze, the cliched compositions?

Thomas Struth: photos so complex 'you could look at them forever' 2011

I fell into a trap that was common in the underground scene—full of artists trying to be over-elaborate and too deep, using words they had no idea about but sounded cool, spitting out grand words like OSMOSIS!

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

I fell into a trap that was common in the underground scene—full of artists trying to be over-elaborate and too deep, using words they had no idea about but sounded cool, spitting out grand words like OSMOSIS!

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

With Warhammer the world-building has already been done, and over the past 30 years has undergone a bit of remodeling and reconstruction, leaving authors free to concentrate on telling a great story rather than having to invent over-elaborate magic systems, royal lineages, and economic models.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Christian Dunn on Black Library's New Print on Demand Book Line 2010

There are demands for the chemical fumigation of the entire second floor, but that does seem a little over-elaborate.

Diary Hugh Muir 2010

"I have seen, the plan, majesty; it is over-elaborate and unnecessary."

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010