Example Sentences

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We’re attracted to it, and that attraction is what makes the painting disturbing, haunting—yet without diminishing its decorativeness: quite a feat to pull off.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2012

The wave of assassinations of national lead ers underscored the need to select Vice Presidents for reasons other than ticket balancing or decorativeness.

From Time Magazine Archive

To lament their lack of poetry is to miss their admirable rhetoric; to regret their imperfect feeling for decorativeness is to miss their delightful decorum.

From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)

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.

From Just Patty by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)

The result is—instead of a pretty but chaotic decorativeness interspersed with florid and meaningless exaggerations—a complete and beautiful whole marred by no redundancy or incongruity.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various