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Word: embellished (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...fireplace happens to be from London's Barclays Bank, he says so, and an Oklahoma City developer is pleased indeed to buy it for $32,500. But at a preview Wilson has also eagerly explained that a particular "pub" was actually taken from a church and rearranged. "We embellish, combine, try to keep the period," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...laziest form of journalism imaginable," Raiffa said. The original story didn't present the course in the proper light. These other papers are willing to repeat it and embellish it without doing their homework and checking out the facts...

Author: By Cecily Deegan and Stephen R. Latham, S | Title: The B-School vs. The Wall Street Journal | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...even Falk can't save it--his antics are inspired but predictable. Friedkin tries to enliven the end of the film by dragging in J. Edgar Hoover for a little fun. But Hoover comes off as the same old commie-hating tyrant everyone has seen before. Friedkin fails to embellish this stock figure in any way. It isn't terribly original and it's not funny to boot...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: It's Been Done Before | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

These magnificent works reflect far more about Cro-Magnon man than his artistic ability. Indistinguishable from modern man either in brain capacity or physical appearance, he was clearly using his artistic skills to embellish a culture of a richness and complexity that is only beginning to be plumbed by scholars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Treasure from the Ice Age | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...first place as an imaginative way to conjure up reality, for, as the South African novelist Nadine Gordimer says, "The facts are always less than what really happened." But many novelists now find truth not only stranger than fiction but easier to write; it takes less effort to embellish a character the reader already knows than to create a new character in the round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Playing with the Facts | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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