decorativeness

The candy was of an inexpensive variety – Patty had discovered the ten-cent store – but the boxes that contained it made up in decorativeness what the candy lacked; they were sprinkled with Cupids and roses in vivid profusion.

Just Patty 1911

In summer uniforms of white linen with gold shoulder-straps, and shining top-boots, they rivalled the donkey-man in decorativeness.

Jerry Junior 1907

A first glance at her work reveals a kind of obsessive decorativeness that is somewhat abject, innocent and childish A second glance deciphers a sober social and self criticism and a humor that chooses to hide inside a shell of weakness.

Artists: Israeli, 1970 to the Present. 2009

It seemed a sorry attempt at visual overloading in order to draw attention away from the mind-numblingly decorativeness of the actual art.

Buzzine » Murakami at MOCA 2008

I'm pretty agnostic about leggings, but the whole discussion which centered on the fact that it can be *really* hard to look good in leggings got me thinking about the pervasive idea that women owe it to onlookers to maintain a certain standard of decorativeness.

October 2006 2006

I'm pretty agnostic about leggings, but the whole discussion which centered on the fact that it can be *really* hard to look good in leggings got me thinking about the pervasive idea that women owe it to onlookers to maintain a certain standard of decorativeness.

You Don't Have to Be Pretty - A Dress A Day 2006

Arabic decorativeness in tinted stucco is the palace begun by

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

In much of his later work there is a marked change from his earlier elaborate decorativeness to a style of vigorous strength.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

There are a few rules with regard to the costuming of woman which if understood put one a long way on the road toward that desirable goal -- decorativeness, and have economic value as well.

Woman as Decoration Emily Burbank

You will by this means increase your decorativeness, and what is of more serious importance, your economic value.

Woman as Decoration Emily Burbank