Emma Brown is properly placed at the center of this elaborate construct.

-the result of an array of elaborate constructs that we refer to as 'desiring machines.

"They are of an elaborate construct," Dr. Todt pointed out.

By the same token his music is always characterized by extremely contemplated development, and contains elaborate constructs that don't impede the direct musical statement.

Finally he froze an elaborate construct and simultaneously shot a blast of mathematical esoterica at the minds of Kramer and Van Wyk.

Inducted into the Big Band Hall of Fame in Palm Beach, Fla., in 1993, Mr. Lanin built a legacy that The New York Times that year called "an elaborate construct built from scratch each night."

Aschenbach's ruminative vocal lines are often accompanied by orchestral writing that incorporates 12-tone elements, which subliminally suggest that his notions of idealized beauty are elaborate intellectual constructs.

In early spring, baseball teams are all theory, statistical projections and elaborate constructs of the heart.

Art critics hailed him as "a 20th century Piranesi" for his dramatic and elaborate constructs.

"Strong Motion," like "The Twenty-seventh City," is an elaborate construct, with the stuff of several books crammed into one long, dense narrative about contemporary urban America.