How to pronounce “embellished” in English

But it's always perplexed me-- a wealthy silk merchant.Why wouldn't he have insisted on having his wife embellished in beautiful silks rather than in a frumpy, green, wool housedress? Well, the mysteries of the "Mona Lisa" continue.

Mm-hmm. I would have been like, tell me all the stories.What is true, and what is embellished?

enthusiastically agreed they crossed into North Korea and when they got into the village she turned in uh missionaryLee saying he's a spy working for the US government not true but she embellished her story maybe she got paid more moneyand uh um she we found out later that she was a refugee spy huge problem is

juries, not to be presented in the courtroom. And the argument that they're giving is that not only was the book co-written and he claims that he had aghostwriter so he didn't exactly know what was in there. But he also embellished or fictionalized elements of the book to help sell copies. But thejudge shot that argument down.

And so he made himself, I think, look more heroic in his story and, I think, as a result, developed this false memory.Every time he told the story, it probably became more and more embellished to add more of these details of an event that never took place.Wow.

Well, there was a rather strange person-- Matthew at Princeton who was some kind of administrative assistant.And I told him some story-- I forget which one it was because I have a number of stories that just get embellished over the years until theybecome totally false.

Easter Island statue. And that is, by the way, all exactly how Big Craig looked.I had assumed that that was-- one of the tricky things about David Foster Wallace is that the non-fiction is often embellished.The fiction's often actually reported.

Mm-hmm. I would have been like, tell me all the stories.It takes me out because I have to just remember, OK, this is embellished at the end of the day.

You wrote, "I like to think of memory as less like a photograph and more like a painting.Most paintings typically includes some mixture of details that are faithful to the subject, details that are distorted or embellished,and inferences and interpretations that are neither absolutely true nor entirely false, but rather, a reflection of what the artist's perspective.

Now, why do we have the imagination to perceive and foresee and look out and see an evolution in things like computers and online and virtual reality but we don't have the imaginationWhen I was there, there was a girl named Jacqueline and it's actually in the book, a little bit of her story but then I embellished and invented a lot of it, but she was 14.