curlicues

Hard to take this seriously with that obnoxious font that draws curlicues connecting letters like s and t.

The curlicues and flourishes on those serifs add an extra layer of warmth and richness to the sound.

People who have lived the field for long enough can ignore all the curlicues and find a beating heart.

It feels somehow wrong to post a lolcat with all those fancy curlicues around.

Sprinkling curlicues on a tired overused cliche like this will never freshen it up.

I mean, it has all those curlicues, aka sigils.

I really should read more philosophy, but I just can't cope with all the long sentences and curlicues of jargon...

The latter may be because aesthetic indifference serves today as a more effective display of power than baroque over-done aesthetics with gold leaf and curlicues.

Designers trying to be artistic resort to swooshes and curlicues.

Is your company's code complicated and full of weird curlicues because edge cases from poor planning and requirements that change on the fly 'disrupted' the original design?

Lots of big, chunky sentences with curlicues.

The pure theoreticals continue spinning off into ever-more-rarified lands of type theory that are already all but impossible to use in practice, and the practicals are stuck shuffling around the same things over and over again in the same basic languages they've had since the late 1990s, just with a few more fancier curlicues added.

Now imagine a language where smooth connections and fancy curlicues in the "right" places were essential for being seen as erudite, and where "right" depended on 5 years of learning.

You could write a very similar article about the Victorian period, maybe titled “The Age of Ornate”, filled with complaints that every field seems to be obsessed with adding a million curlicues and embellishments to whatever they’re making.