He was an elaborator, a story teller, a veritable entertainer.

She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

An early elaborator of this idea was John Locke, from whom the expression "all men are created equal" can be traced.

The great elaborator: Obama gives 17-minute answer to health-care query in N.C.

And Enberg is an elaborator.

Elaborator: Picks up on other's suggestions and amplifies with examples, pertinent facts, and probable consequences.

He was one of the major figures of the Renaissance, an elaborator of mathematical perspective and theoretician of art.

Mr. Walden is an elaborator: he works over ideas, adding and subtracting notes from phrases, repeating them or cutting them off.

All erstwhile elaborations turn out to be only further repetitions of the (ruled) discursive practices routinely engaged in by the language community in which the elaborator was trained.

A famously gifted elaborator, Mr. DeLillo still said about this book: “I did tell myself I can’t elaborate here, though at certain points I might have enjoyed that.

The introduction of an (external) ROM was in an Italian telephone switching elaborator, called "Gruppi Speciali", thanks to a CSELT researcher.

An elaborator of conciliarism, he participated in the Council of Pisa and Council of Constance on behalf of Antipope John XXIII.

He's a genius elaborator when he sings; if he wasn't decorating every word with several notes or bending vowels or slapping notes percussively, he was adding trails of improvised asides to melodies.

The fact remains that they were, indeed, originals, whose technique could not always keep pace with their vision; Mr. Amenoff is a generous appreciator and loving elaborator of their originality, but nostalgic and synthetic just where they were anticipatory and disjunctive.