Crossword-Solution: ELABORATION 11 letters, 52 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The building was American in its sky-scraping altitude, and American also in the oiled elaboration of its machinery of telephones and lifts.

The physical well-being of the one race has such a conspicuous influence upon that of the other that the subject requires no elaboration.

Delaney had arrayed himself with painful elaboration, determined to look the part, bent upon creating the impression, resolved that his appearance at least should justify his reputation of being “bad.” Nothing was lacking--neither the campaign hat with upturned brim, nor the dotted blue handkerchief knotted behind the neck, nor the heavy gauntlets stitched with red, nor--this above all--the bear-skin “chaparejos,” the hair trousers of the mountain cowboy, the pistol holster low on the thigh.

She seemed to have a great deal of hair: it was arranged with peculiar elaboration and done over the forehead in what she called an Alexandra fringe.

And the nature of the songs is itself characteristic of these idle later years; for they are often as polished and elaborate as his earlier works were frank, and headlong, and colloquial; and this sort of verbal elaboration in short flights is, for a man of literary turn, simply the most agreeable of pastimes.