They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds - cooled - and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path.
Quotes about elaborately (9 Quotes)
And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.
I think the 'Star Wars' analogy is a very good one. It's beyond time and yet it's a sort of historical time. And also there are the levels of how elaborately he's constructed this world, and how consistent he remained with the cosmology he created, over such a long time -- and at the end to have everything be believable within the world of that novel.
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
This approach was radical in 1938 when the play was first produced. Audiences were accustomed to realistic plays that often elaborately emphasized the specific details of time and place and, for Wilder, lacked the quality of universality and theatricality.
Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
Time elaborately thrown away.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
I think the secret to the guy was that he was very simple, not stupid, but not a genius, and he ended up being something like an elaborately clothed emperor in a kingdom full of people with no clothes.