The craving for excitement and for elaboration has ruined that blessing.

He defined the nature and crime of treason with elaboration and circumlocution.

It was an elaboration of the theories contained in his earlier book.

The system represents a series of compromises, not the elaboration of a theory.

A youth of this kind is raw material in its first stage of elaboration.

These theories merely an elaboration of one method of wage payment.

A second version contains only an elaboration of this last motif.

It is splendid in colouring and wonderful in the elaboration of detail.

She saw the entire purpose of creation to be the evolution and elaboration of the soul.

No elaboration could have equaled, in effect, the virtue of this restraint.