Darwin is somewhat slow to set up this elaborate framework: at first, Stephen and Anna drift into position without taking much action.

Once again she was surrounded by an elaborate framework of steel scaffolding, while workers swarmed over her.

His best known creation is Moondog, a science-fantasy series notable for its sophisticated art and elaborate imaginative framework.

In "The Voyager," a half-dozen dancers stayed airborne within an elaborate framework of eight ladders.

But the elaborate frameworks in the long songs keep rolling away to reveal Ms. Keineg's voice and guitar, and these are stunning moments of contrast.

The elaborate allegorical framework was left standing.

In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.

Originally, an elaborate framework would be erected over a coffin or tomb to which memorial verses or epitaphs were attached.

Blending theory is an elaborate framework that provides a rich terminology for describing the products of creative thinking, from metaphors to jokes to neologisms to adverts.

The reason for that is that we have a very elaborate framework for financial services, as Mrs Villiers knows better than almost anyone else.