Letitia Baldrige

Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.

American Writer

Cassandra Clare

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

American Author

Leslie Jordan

I talk about things that happened in my life. Now, do I embellish? Absolutely. Come on, we all do it. It makes for a better story. But it always comes from a germ of truth.

American Actor

Laura Marling

I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

English Musician

Kate Smith

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

American Musician

Ashley Madekwe

I'm happy with embellishment in a chunky Prada-esque way, but I'm not into sequins!

English Actress

Naseeruddin Shah

I have had enough of an interesting life to not embellish it in any way.

Indian Actor

Miranda Lambert

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

Lindsey Buckingham

I just find things that work and embellish them.

Mike Birbiglia

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

American Comedian

Used to describe adding visual details that enhance appearance, often to make a plain object more striking.

Visual enhancement

While it usually suggests improvement, it can imply excessive decoration to the point of gaudiness.

Not always positive

Can describe improving things non-tangible, like enhancing a musical performance by adding flourishes.

Metaphoric use

It means to add interesting, but possibly untrue or exaggerated, details to a narrative.

Beyond the truth

Often used to make a dull story grab attention, not necessarily to deceive.

Creating interest

Embellishment doesn't always mean completely false, can mean enhancing the truth slightly.

Subtle exaggeration

 like the letters I used to write to my grandma when I first started university, letters I filled with funny stories and anecdotes that I embellished for her amusement. And I remembered how I couldn't articulate the anxiety and fear that filled me as I tried to carve my tiny little life

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 We might run up the stairs too quickly and we might get breathless. But the larger sense that we have of our lives, the slightly more abstract one, is indirect. Our story of our life is based on direct experience, but it's embellished. A novel needs scene after scene to build,

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 These stories may be embellished and depict Sparta at the apex of its power, so take them with a grain of salt. For Spartans, the purpose for their existence was to serve Sparta. On the day of their birth, elder Spartan leaders examined every newborn.

This is Sparta: Fierce...

 and my framework, like the newly industrialized aspirational humanity, began to alter. In the urban rush for a new, more embellished survival, things started to look a little different. I met people who had descended from all over the world,

Thoughts on humanity,...

 walls richly embellished with carvings and mosaics escaped destruction by the Black Flag army when the town was sacked in 1887 rise before dawn to witness the tradition of cybot or morning alms where devotees offer food to the procession of

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 What do you fear? What lies do you tell yourself? How do you embellish your truth and write your own fictions? What reality are you creating for yourself? In your career and personal life, in your relationships, and in your heart and soul,

Isaac Lidsky: What...

 Even if we were able to encode a memory accurately, recalling it incorporates new information that changes the memory. And when we later recall that event, we typically remember the embellished memory instead of the original experience.

How do you know what's...

 told by a very talented storyteller, Jim O'Grady. Jim So I'm banging out my story and I know it's good, and then I start to make it better -- by adding an element of embellishment.

This is your brain on...

 set about turning its cathedral square into a magnificent landmark. Workers embellished and enlarged the existing church, and added a massive domed baptistry to the plaza.

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 me, I beautify lawns, parkways. I use the garden, the soil, like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that cloth.