I once heard someone offer an underassertive friend a favor and the friend said no in such a roundabout fashion that the person actually thought she'd said yes, and did it anyway.

There is the Neo-Grec roomset, a 19th-century re-creation of classical Greek ornamentation. There are roomsets in the tradition of William Morris and Walter Crane, the latter including stylized iris and moth motifs. There is the lovely Anglo-Japanese roomset, speaking to the style for all things Japanesque

Then disparate sense impressions come to disparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc.

Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?