ornamentalism in a sentence

1. Her first book in 1989, “Keruto: Soshokuteki Shiko” (Celtic Art: Idea of Ornamentalism) (Chikuma Shobo Publishing), sparked a surge of interest in Celtic culture in Japan.

2. The effete rituals and gaudy uniforms, the ‘ornamentalism’ of a world still largely organised around hereditary monarchy, had a distancing effect on present-day recollection.

3. What both currents have in common is the overcoming of a reality-based representation and thus its origin in Greek culture (whose tradition is the representation of man, in contrast to Eastern ornamentalism).