No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.
My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.
I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.
On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas, hold one another up, determined to make their mark, to bite back at the dreams sold to them in newspaper advertisements and on the radio. They have sores on their feet but stars in their eyes.