What is "intricate"

Usage examples of "intricate".

Mark took a step left to the low table on which Abram had lovingly laid an intricate battle scene full oflitde metal soldiers.

Cornwell and Whyte rationalize the appearances of magic in their stories, and provide mundane sources for the stories that have become our Arthurian legends, Attanasio places his retelling in a context rife with actual sorcery, living gods, angels, demons, elves, dwarves, and an intricate mytho-cosmology that encompasses the history of creation.

Intricate plasterwork adorned the ceiling in a flowered medallion style that matched the thick Aubusson carpet on the floor.

Her collection of beargrass, cattail leaves and stalks, reeds, willow switches, roots of trees, would be made into baskets, tightly woven or of looser weave in intricate patterns, for cooking, eating, storage containers, winnowing trays, serving trays, mats for sitting upon, serving or drying food.

Gute wore a pendant necklace, anklets, and headband of intricate metallic beadwork, and worn but serviceable shoes.

Tiny wires and internal pieces of intricate boxwork had been reduced to toothpicks.

It never ceased to fascinate her, the intricate beauty of space, the bold brushstrokes of worlds while approaching a star system, the grand perspective of galaxies when one drew back.

It was an intricate piece of cypress cabinetry with bronze fittings, originally the property of her far-traveling father.

Great gleaming metal ribs stretched from its titanium nosecap to the more intricate cagework of the tail fins.

By the time he was handed the last of his diplomas, Terry Fossino was a high-level Camorra drug operative, making six-figure buys and moving the cash through an intricate system that went through six different banks in five countries before settling in as clean money in a Camorrista account in Rome.

Those walls were more intricate than the castles of Canberra -- in many places it looked like there were little mazes or caves built into the base.

The rooms were generous, sumptuous with woven carpets and pillows, all wrought in intricate designs.

The Ascension depended on an intricate string of chants and songs that would lead the soul of the one ascending into the Long Sleep in perfect harmony with the One Voice.

Back inside, she examined the intricate tapestries that lined the pink scrubbed walls and admired the heavy cherrywood table adorned with golden candelabra.

Edmond, simple Cordula, fantastically intricate Lucette, and, by further mechanical association, a depraved little girl called Lisette, in Cannes, with breasts like lovely abscesses, whose frail favors were handled by a smelly big brother in an old bathing machine.