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  • She was an elegant bride.
  • I walked behind him, noticing the silence of my own footfalls, aware that my Keds didn't click elegantly on stone the way the heels worn by other girls did.   (source)
    elegantly = in a refined and tasteful manner
  • But she knew it was extraordinary for it was the "eyebrow" of a great blue heron, the feather that bows gracefully above the eye, extending back beyond her elegant head.   (source)
    elegant = attractive in form or proportion
  • She was in the latter stages of the novel, where the young priest was doubting his faith after meeting a strange and elegant woman.   (source)
    elegant = refined and tasteful
  • I look, as I always do in Julia's pictures, like an elegant fellow, but something is different about this drawing.   (source)
    elegant = attractive
  • All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.   (source)
    elegant = comprehensively and stylishly designed
  • Esperanza's parents, Ramona and Sixto Ortega, stood nearby, Mama, tall and elegant, her hair in the usual braided wreath that crowned her head, and Papa, barely taller than Mama, his graying mustache twisted up at the sides.   (source)
    elegant = refined and tasteful in appearance
  • She thought about the mayor, down in his room full of plunder, gorging on peaches and asparagus and wrapping his huge body in elegant new clothes.   (source)
    elegant = refined and tasteful
  • She'd permed her hair, I saw, and wore an elegant, ankle-length black dress.   (source)
  • There's an elegant glass of orange juice. ... I've only even tasted an orange once, at New Year's when my father bought one as a special treat.   (source)
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  • Dad had named me after her; Mom suggested adding the second N to make it more elegant and French. [Jeannette]   (source)
  • Eventually the bird lighted halfway up a black mangrove, squawking irritably about the high tides. The elegant company was welcome, but Roy kept his eyes fastened on the creek.   (source)
    elegant = with refined and beauty
  • A sword angled elegantly off of his hip, and circling his waist was a broad webbed belt embellished with an enormous metal buckle.   (source)
    elegantly = in a refined and tasteful manner
  • The root of the hoary, decumbent, and less elegant, but larger flowered Hedysarum mackenzii is poisonous, and nearly killed an old Indian woman at Fort Simpson, who had mistaken it for that of the preceding species.   (source)
    elegant = refined and tasteful in appearance
  • My mother had not liked the term Native Americans. She thought it sounded primitive and stiff. She said, "My great-grandmother was a Seneca Indian, and I'm proud of it. She wasn't a Seneca Native American. Indian sounds much more brave and elegant."   (source)
    elegant = refined and tasteful
  • She had moved to Sunset Towers hoping to meet elegant people, but no one had invited her in for so much as a cup of tea.   (source)
  • He held up an elegant hand.   (source)
    elegant = refined and attractive
  • "She's so elegant," Marlee whispered to me, tilting her head toward Ashley.   (source)
    elegant = refined and tasteful
  • It presented a face of definite elegance to the street, although behind that wings and ells dwindled quickly in formality until the house ended in a big plain barn.   (source)
    elegance = refined and tasteful in appearance
  • Did it seem likely that his mother, who sat so elegantly in meeting, had ever touched a choke-weed?   (source)
    elegantly = in a refined and tasteful manner
  • He was very tall, and always wore an elegant blue uniform with silver buttons and a bright white sash across his chest.   (source)
    elegant = attractive
  • Elegant mahogany furniture, a linoleum floor covered with throw rugs, a radio, a fancy lamp, everything first class.   (source)
    elegant = refined and tasteful
  • Afterward she gave me a robe, which was nothing more than coarsely woven cotton in the simplest pattern of dark blue, but it was certainly more elegant than anything I'd ever worn before.   (source)
  • It was an old two-story house, split almost exactly in half, with thin partitions dividing what had been expansive rooms; even the stairway, once wide and elegant, had been cut in half.   (source)
    elegant = refined and tasteful in appearance
  • That theatrical moment was only rivaled five years ago when an elegantly intoxicated friend sang Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."   (source)
    elegantly = in a refined and tasteful way
  • From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
    WAR IS PEACE
    FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
    IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH   (source)
    elegant = refined and tasteful
  • We hadn't reached West Egg village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored suit.   (source)
  • Boys, we done it elegant!   (source)
    elegant = very well
  • The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale.   (source)
    elegance = grace and style
  • Every now and then, one of them would sidle up to me and remark that she had known my grandmother — or, if younger, that she wished she'd known her, back in those golden days before the Great War, when true elegance had still been possible.†   (source)
  • But the Piazza did not aspire to elegance, service, or subtlety.†   (source)
  • They are elegantly dressed and made-up.†   (source)
  • A few elegantly dressed people moved indifferently among the swelling throng of visitors.†   (source)
  • I'd found his office imposing when I first saw it, but its quiet elegance had, over time, made the stronger impression.†   (source)
  • But Tally had never once realized her friend might actually run away, giving up a life of beauty, glamour, elegance.†   (source)
  • Holding it with a certain elegance, her other hand across her knees where she'd drawn them up.†   (source)
  • A large balcony packed with more students seemed to ascend elegantly into the drawings.†   (source)
  • He was very good-looking; his dark hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance neither James's nor Harry's could ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him hopefully, though he didn't seem to have noticed.†   (source)
  • "Elegantly accomplished," said Nehemiah Trot.†   (source)
  • Will's home was elegantly furnished, its decor spare and beautiful.†   (source)
  • Reynie held out the ribbons, which were indeed elegantly stitched.†   (source)
  • Williams set about restoring the house to something greater than its original elegance.†   (source)
  • Always elegantly dressed, he would meander across the room, stopping to chat with men working at different stations.†   (source)
  • Nox, who had now become her sparring and training partner, danced as well, perhaps a bit more elegantly than the others—though she still pitied the ladies who danced with him.†   (source)
  • Most of the men were shirtless, but the chief was elegantly dressed.†   (source)
  • At the door, now, is a woman in a purple satin dress with cascading brown hair, elegantly nonchalant, waving at the porter with a bejeweled hand as she glides into the foyer.†   (source)
  • Though her face is lined and her complexion a bit splotchy, she is more beautiful even than Maxine, her features more regular, the cheekbones higher, the eyes more elegantly defined.†   (source)
  • The overcast sky and the stone buildings emit the same cold elegance, but ahead of me, the Pantheon shimmers.†   (source)
  • They were tall enough to cover her elbows, and a row of seed pearls along the hems added the simplest touch of elegance.†   (source)
  • She was all in white, with an elegantly beaded headdress capping her hair.†   (source)
  • Elegantly sculpted contours, soaring pinnacles of ice, deep majestic ravines!†   (source)
  • …while Kitsey flitted from setting to setting: the gold band! no, the blue! wait …. which was the first one? is the octagonal too much? and the consultant chimed in with her helpful exegesis: urban geometrics …. romantic florals …. timeless elegance …. flamboyant flash …. and even though I'd kept saying sure, that one's fine, that one too, I'd be happy with either, your decision Kits, the consultant kept showing us more and more settings, clearly hoping to wheedle some firmer show of…†   (source)
  • Elegance, sir.†   (source)
  • The Presidential Suite, with its cold elegance, had made her feel awkward and clumsy — it was all very well to visit some restored historical building with a bedroom plaque that announced Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D. Roosevelt had slept there, but another thing entirely to imagine you and your husband lying beneath acreages of linen and perhaps making love where the greatest men in the world had once lain (the most powerful, anyway, she amended).†   (source)
  • Her velvet dress was wine red and elegantly cut.†   (source)
  • His warrior's face with its expertly carved lines speaks its elegance in a language as foreign to them as Lingala.†   (source)
  • There was an elegantly furnished waiting room but I barely had time to sit down on an authentic pre-Hegira de Kooning before an aide appeared and ushered me into the CEO's private office.†   (source)
  • Eventually he towed me out to where his family was twirling elegantly — if in a style totally unsuitable to the present time and music.†   (source)
  • There was elegance about him.†   (source)
  • The silence is probably the cause, but there is grace to a canoe—or a dog team, or a sailboat (which whales allow close to them )—a gentle elegance that seems to fit much more into nature than the roar of an outboard or snowmobile.†   (source)
  • As the wife of Potter Palmer, she was accustomed by wealth and absolute social dominance to having her own way, as she had made clear earlier in the year when she suppressed a revolt led by the board's executive secretary that had caused open warfare between factions of elegantly coiffed and dressed women.†   (source)
  • It's neat, carefully observant, fully realized, elegantly expressed, if obviously the product of a much more intense study of the text than I had asked you to undertake.†   (source)
  • The elegance of it all, the ideological purity of the Circle, of real transparency, gave her peace, a warming feeling of logic and order.†   (source)
  • Nobody would guess, I thought as the gentle press toward the door began, that Father had given up his cigars and Tante Jans the coal fire in her rooms in order to buy the silk that swished so elegantly with us now.†   (source)
  • Designed on a computer screen, but with an eye toward the elegance of things past and forgotten about.†   (source)
  • Slowly, almost elegantly, he spat his mouthful of whiskey full into Yetta's face, the liquid dripping down her eyebrows, her cheeks, her lace collar.†   (source)
  • Like her older brother, Peter, she had gray eyes and a slender, patrician elegance.†   (source)
  • She was always much more elegantly dressed than her husband, and today she was wearing a mint green sleeveless summer dress that matched her eyes, in what Sophie thought was probably pure silk.†   (source)
  • The stone facade was elegantly decorated with carved curlicues and fleur-de-lis, dark and eroded from years of exposure to polluted air and acid rain.†   (source)
  • The bachelor flat turned out to be comfortable and elegantly furnished.†   (source)
  • "Actually," Jesus started to speak but paused to throw one last skipping stone, "with her, everything is normal and elegantly simple.†   (source)
  • He is standing next to a shopping cart heaped over with all his belongings, and yet despite grubby, soiled clothing, there's a rumpled elegance about him.†   (source)
  • His wife, on the other hand, was vivacious and had a plebeian spark of sharp wit that gave a more human note to her elegance.†   (source)
  • The entire population of Phoenix had flocked to the observation deck in their finery, and the elegantly dressed crowd buzzed with excitement.†   (source)
  • It has symmetry, elegance, and grace — those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures.†   (source)
  • Mathematical solutions are selected by the subliminal self on the basis of "mathematical beauty," of the harmony of numbers and forms, of geometric elegance.†   (source)
  • And furthermore other men admired him because he was powerful and good at his work, because on the sea he was thoroughly competent and even in his rough way elegantly so; still, their admiration was colored by their distrust of his size and his brooding deliberation.†   (source)
  • If I first establish that "all living creatures are mortal" (first premise), and then establish that "Hermes is a living creature" (second premise), I can then elegantly conclude that "Hermes is mortal."†   (source)
  • Then the wrinkled man moved to reenter the shed, but before he left he turned to the elderly man, who was looking at him with a degree of disdain, and elegantly doffed his hat.†   (source)
  • She'd wound that mass of blond hair up, a touch of elegance, and wore an open black jacket over some kind of lacey top—camisole, he remembered.†   (source)
  • The watch on his left wrist is elegantly thin, his glasses Armani in style.†   (source)
  • The pigeons were denied even the elegance of a long fall.†   (source)
  • "I do not like l'elegance des femmes.†   (source)
  • The men wore suits and the women affected the severe Protestant style of the missionaries: thick long skirts and high-necked blouses, with a blanket draped over the shoulder and a scarf wound elegantly around the head.†   (source)
  • "A delightful repast, delicately prepared and elegantly served," he announced to no one in particular.†   (source)
  • Bibi wore an elegantly embroidered red-and-gold dress with a matching hijab.†   (source)
  • She holds her head high, the elegance of her neck heightened by the inky fall of her hair.†   (source)
  • 'Ah, what elegance!†   (source)
  • So they were domiciled in a ready-prepared home of elegance and beauty.†   (source)
  • The elegance of each movement!†   (source)
  • A few small prizes were handed out (Terrific Tether Management, Perfect Pickup Tool), and then Merrill moved on to the final awards: Design Elegance, Technical Report, and Overall Winner.†   (source)
  • For Ruth it was the summation of the affectionate elegance with which she believed her childhood had been surrounded.†   (source)
  • There was an elegance to it that matched the graceful way she moved, and though he hadn't planned on calling her that, the syllables had rolled off his tongue as if he'd had no choice.†   (source)
  • One combatant met his fate with supreme elegance.†   (source)
  • I lowered myself into a chair near the door and stared defiantly at the elegance around me.†   (source)
  • Without his noticing, Song Enters, dressed elegantly in a black gown from the twenties.†   (source)
  • Men made fun of him behind his back, but it was soon clear that they were imitating his elegance, his kidskin shoes, his indifference, and his civilized manner.†   (source)
  • He loved green turtles and hawk-bills with their elegance and speed and their great value and he had a friendly contempt for the huge, stupid loggerheads, yellow in their armour-plating, strange in their love-making, and happily eating the Portuguese men-of-war with their eyes shut.†   (source)
  • Barbara spots an elegantly dressed Hispanic family a half-dozen seats away, a mother and father talking animatedly to a daughter.†   (source)
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  • It is an elegant solution that will reduce complexity and save material.
    elegant = a solution that is simpler (and often more comprehensive) than most would anticipate
  • It was an elegant deception, a mental pirouette.   (source)
    elegant = simple and effective
  • But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map.   (source)
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  • "Ah," Nearly Headless Nick waved an elegant hand, "a matter of no importance…†   (source)
  • Winifred was wearing her green alligator shoes, but I no longer judged them elegant; instead I judged them garish.†   (source)
  • This was not going to be elegant, he thought.†   (source)
  • Its posture was graceful and elegant.†   (source)
  • Running along the perimeter of where the closet met the wall was an elegant molding.†   (source)
  • In his private dining room at Auschwitz, Hoess sits at an elegant table for one.†   (source)
  • He looked elegant in his gray suit and snow-white shirt.†   (source)
  • He wore an elegant black suit and black tie, and his demeanor was irresistibly cheerful, which put my grandfather at ease.†   (source)
  • His features—the broad face, the flattened nose, the narrow, pleated eyes—looked so elegant.†   (source)
  • She stood with elegant posture, holding a parasol with both hands.†   (source)
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  • She gazed up the line of elegant storefronts on Champs-Elysées.†   (source)
  • Don't worry, Tally," she whispered, putting one elegant finger to her lips.†   (source)
  • She was quite elegant in her hat and scarf.†   (source)
  • She led them through an elegant hallway smelling of flowers into an enormous room, and when they saw what was inside, they nearly fainted from delight, Klaus especially.†   (source)
  • After, the Talib closed his eyes gently, a muted and elegant gesture of gratitude.†   (source)
  • There were little elegant side tables everywhere, their burnished surfaces covered with ornamental boxes.†   (source)
  • He found the bedrooms—huge, elegant rooms with beautifully carved beds and long, mirrored closets.†   (source)
  • "It's just that, uh, you're so much more elegant than I am."†   (source)
  • The elegant guests coming up the walk in evening clothes were only a memory now.†   (source)
  • He was tall and elegant, with chocolate-colored skin and bleached-blond hair shaved military style.†   (source)
  • An elegant older man with swept-back white hair, Simpson was the world's leading authority on lizard taxonomy.†   (source)
  • He liked the more formal attire of men in Krakow and gradually purchased several elegant suits.†   (source)
  • But Dorian, tall, toned, and elegant, bore no resemblance to him.†   (source)
  • The women were especially elegant in their beautiful patterned cotton skirts, dresses, shirts, and lappei—a big cotton cloth that women wrap around their waist—and extravagant head wraps.†   (source)
  • Two hundred thousand Notes should buy you a dozen elegant dresses.†   (source)
  • Uncle Alfred was very respectful of Owen's desire to go to Vietnam, but Aunt Martha—over our elegant dinner— questioned the war's "morality."†   (source)
  • The elegant man in white, I worry, is a drug pusher.†   (source)
  • Simple, elegant, long-shafted.†   (source)
  • Though it was not as large as Shi-yi, not as elegant as Shi-yi, I was excited beyond words.†   (source)
  • What appeared among the cool trees as she approached was a brick barn of elegant dimensions, like a Greek temple, with a black-tiled roof, windows of plain glass, and a low portico with white columns beneath a clock tower of harmonious proportions.†   (source)
  • I'm not a materials engineer; my design for the bedroom isn't elegant.†   (source)
  • And the woman, a very elegant artist type with blond hair, had supposedly painted the apartment in terrible red and green colors.†   (source)
  • Cal's cycle eats up the familiar road in elegant, arcing curves.†   (source)
  • "Interested?" an elegant older saleswoman asked them.†   (source)
  • Grandma Lynn was at the mall trying to find simple yet elegant clothes that she might convince my mother to wear.†   (source)
  • Front Two: Operation Baldy: Wherein Lara flies solo in a retaliatory mission so elegant and cruel that it could only have been the brainchild of, well, me.†   (source)
  • A neatly trimmed mustache connected to a beard that covered only his chin lent him an elegant, vaguely aristocratic air.†   (source)
  • He was sporting an elegant tight-fitting suit, a top hat, and spats.†   (source)
  • It is the most elegant answer to the question of where all the Joe Floms came from.†   (source)
  • Long, elegant hands brushed his cheek, then tightened around his throat.†   (source)
  • She was tall and stately, with broad shoulders and an elegant waist.†   (source)
  • Peeta's in an elegant tuxedo and white gloves.†   (source)
  • The door to Adri's bedroom opened, and she stepped out wearing a white and magenta kimono embroidered with elegant cranes.†   (source)
  • Lady Seymour, the only other woman present, looked like an elegant spider wrapped in her black lace shawl.†   (source)
  • Behind her the elegant meal, with its many plates, goblets, glasses, and silverware, was gone.†   (source)
  • I could see it so easily, how elegant she would look with the crown on her head.†   (source)
  • In the next building, under an elegant domed copper roof, a ten-and-a-half-foot marble statue of Jesus stood, arms spread wide, holding court over what was once the main entrance of Hopkins.†   (source)
  • In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioral research laboratories running round inside wheels and conducting frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man.†   (source)
  • Musty old elegant fellows, carry their weight well, you know?†   (source)
  • Mary Breasted Smyth, elegant novelist herself, read the first third and passed it on to Molly Friedrich, who became my agent and thought that Nan Graham, Editor-in-Chief at Scribner, would be just the right person to put the book on the road.†   (source)
  • The altar in our camp was A perfect cube five feet high, topped with a triumvirate of carefully selected pointed stones, above which rose a ten-foot wooden pole crowned with an elegant juniper bough.†   (source)
  • It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress.†   (source)
  • They'd gone to Manchester for parachute training, dropping—if all went well—into the elegant grounds of Tatton Park.†   (source)
  • And with that elegant parting riposte, Root followed his squad into the night air.†   (source)
  • There were several chairs that looked comfortable but not expensive, a coffee table that had once been expensive but now had a long chip gone from the side, two bookcases (stuffed full of Reader's Digest Condensed Books and Detective Book Club trilogies from the forties, Wendy saw with some amusement), and an anonymous hotel TV that looked much less elegant than the buffed wood consoles in the rooms.†   (source)
  • The supervisor was an elegant and attractive black man who roamed all day among the aisles of typists, watching us work.†   (source)
  • AJIHAD Eragon entered an elegant, two-story study paneled with rows of cedar bookshelves.†   (source)
  • I am the smooth, elegant black cat who slips from the house as a liquid shadow after dark.†   (source)
  • Their gentle, elegant grandmother looked terrible.†   (source)
  • Johnny pointed to one decrepit but oddly elegant structure and said, "The Empire State Building."†   (source)
  • Two words were written in his elegant script.†   (source)
  • Rumors spread of half-clad women jiggling away, when in fact the dance was elegant, stylized, and rather chaste.†   (source)
  • They make a lot of mistakes: they're petty; envious, lustful, occasionally greedy as well as courageous, elegant, powerful, knowledgeable, profound.†   (source)
  • He was a memory now, obliterated by Kalden and his elegant silhouette, his strong searching hands.†   (source)
  • This window was always a great source of debate between us, I wanting to display as much of our stock as could be squeezed onto the shelf, and Betsie maintaining that two or three beautiful watches, with perhaps a piece of silk or satin swirled beneath, was more elegant and more inviting.†   (source)
  • That high elegant voice.†   (source)
  • These regulations make the business with the bathroom tissue seem as simple and elegant as the Ten Commandments.†   (source)
  • In one pilot kitchen I saw a dapper chemist, a middle-aged man with an elegant tie beneath his lab coat, carefully preparing a batch of cookies with white frosting and pink-and-white sprinkles.†   (source)
  • My plan was elegant.†   (source)
  • He became a familiar sight in Ayemenem, coasting importantly down the narrow road in his wide car, looking outwardly elegant but sweating freely inside his woollen suits.†   (source)
  • Tall, thin and elegant, the red-barked tree rose straight out of the wooden floor.†   (source)
  • She said she'd call on me when you came back, but"—an elegant shrug—"she never did."†   (source)
  • M. Dupont was a tall, elegant gentleman with a grey beard and a monocle.†   (source)
  • She powdered her face lightly before we sat down, tidied her hair and glanced in the mirror to see if she looked elegant.†   (source)
  • So elegant, so full of longing and beauty even now.†   (source)
  • He was pretty sure the elegant Miss Crowther wouldn't like being compared to an enormous screeching bird.†   (source)
  • His sword was pale and elegant.†   (source)
  • Was that the name of the boy with the strong, elegant hands?†   (source)
  • It is so elegant, so clever, that I almost laugh.†   (source)
  • She turned to me with an elegant shrug.†   (source)
  • Through almost the entire ceremony, Fermina Daza stood in the family pew in front of the main altar, as elegant as when she attended the opera.†   (source)
  • The Emperor stood poised, waiting — a slim, elegant figure in a gray Sardaukar uniform with silver and gold trim.†   (source)
  • Ishmael watched Hatsue pull sheets from the line, standing in a pool of muted porch light with her arms illuminated and elegant.†   (source)
  • You can see that the construction has a very elegant and elaborate roof.†   (source)
  • He was stocky but, when he got to his feet, elegant in his movements.†   (source)
  • She'd used festive plates, which meant she wasn't going for elegant or drop-in casual.†   (source)
  • So many big elegant houses with high walls and guardias and cars and people dressed up in the latest styles I've seen in Vanidades.†   (source)
  • A small, elegant woman walking across the local golf course when her children were too young to play alone, diligently trying to make sense of American sports so she could understand her children's milieu.†   (source)
  • A beautiful woman, elegant clothes and a cool gaze.†   (source)
  • I knew she felt elegant and glad to be there.†   (source)
  • I am convinced that it was her elegant bearing that moved him to allow two strangers into his studio.†   (source)
  • Her black hair fans out on her pillow in elegant, wordless significance.†   (source)
  • The booming voice belonged to a powerful man with dark hair and broad shoulders who sat upon an elegant brown horse.†   (source)
  • She is a tall, languid young lady with a pallid, oval face and beautiful pale-blue-gray eyes; her hands are extraordinary-long-fingered, flexible, nervously elegant.†   (source)
  • There were comfortable sofas and chairs, an elegant dining room suite, and modern appliances in the kitchen.†   (source)
  • A whole lot of elegant squares around, you dig?†   (source)
  • Winnie always dressed up for prison visits, and tried to wear something new and elegant.†   (source)
  • He had no idea what they meant, but they looked Very grand and elegant.†   (source)
  • The women follow immediately behind the hippopotamus wagon, dressed all in black and pressing elegant lace hankies to the corners of their eyes.†   (source)
  • Jeremiah scored again, and late in the second half, Bien lobbed an elegant cross across the face of the goal.†   (source)
  • More elegant.†   (source)
  • I'm Evening Elegant.†   (source)
  • The familiar landscape of ornate building:: and elegant shops had been changed into one of charred black rubble and little else.†   (source)
  • Expeditions to temples, parasailing, and scuba diving offered other diversions—the Balinese scuba instructors loved the long-finned, jeweled, and elegant blue fish that had been tattooed on my neck back in New England and eagerly showed me their own tattoos.†   (source)
  • The magus shrugged one shoulder in an elegant gesture of boredom.†   (source)
  • He was an elegant young man, tautly muscled, with a shock of supernaturally orange hair.†   (source)
  • In the firelight, Mother's elegant handwriting dances on the page.†   (source)
  • She was elegant and generous, and talked about China very fondly.†   (source)
  • There was nothing pretty or elegant about their robot.†   (source)
  • Her white hair—braided, perhaps; perhaps not—she touched as though replacing a wayward strand from an elegant coiffure.†   (source)
  • It was savage; it was elegant.†   (source)
  • Beautiful, elegant, inspiring, yes.†   (source)
  • I didn't have to be the most elegant creature at the ball; I only had to see Char.†   (source)
  • The stage is illuminated; we are now completely within an elegant diplomat's residence.†   (source)
  • I'd wear elegant gowns in colors that haven't even been imagined yet and everyone would know my name.†   (source)
  • My name was printed at the top in elegant handwriting I definitely recognized.†   (source)
  • One by one, the sons of Ordo Maas turned into cranes, beautiful and elegant, and took flight into the deepening night sky.†   (source)
  • It was meant to be mostly ornamental and has an ageless elegant face—tiny red bow lips open slightly in a two-toothed smile, clear exact eyes with black pupils in the center of the dark brown irises, tiny pinprick nostrils.†   (source)
  • No elegant escape.†   (source)
  • Its two French windows still opened onto the small balconies over the shop below, and I could see in the soft brilliance of the electric chandeliers an elegant wallpaper that would not have been unfamiliar in those days before the war.†   (source)
  • I was surprised to see how little clothing she had; I'd always thought of her as an elegant woman.†   (source)
  • The doctor stopped in his tracks with a look of elegant amazement and distaste, and the ward grew still.†   (source)
  • In this way our sons will be born with elegant and refined tastes.†   (source)
  • The page was written in another elegant script, but it wasn't the same writing, and it wasn't written in the same brownish ink, or whatever it was.†   (source)
  • They all begin looking for things, trying to find seams in the restaurant's elegant fabric to ease their discomfort.†   (source)
  • The woman wore an elegant long linen coat and a large straw hat trimmed with flowers that jounced about as she walked up to the entrance.†   (source)
  • 1 Should a human come across something written in Elysian code, it was thought, its inferior intelligence would find the elegant script a jumble, and the secrets of all of Elysia would fail to be revealed.†   (source)
  • Comparing the book to the elegant cane of the dandy is not absolutely precise.†   (source)
  • An elegant condominium complex across the river would have been my guess.†   (source)
  • And that I did not want him putting makeup on her face, not when I would never have that bonding moment between a mother and daughter in a bathroom before an elegant night on the town, when I could let her try the eye shadow, a smudge of mascara, pink lipstick.†   (source)
  • When I call up that beautiful face and those elegant cocoa-brown fingers running along the sax's keys, I am always convinced of it.†   (source)
  • Seivarden, all elegant servant's politeness.†   (source)
  • Oh, don't let me upset you," he said with an elegant gesture of self-disgust.†   (source)
  • They would be elegant and tactful.†   (source)
  • Much of the time since, he had conducted the war from established headquarters in elegant houses.†   (source)
  • He moved those elegant shoulders.†   (source)
  • In elegant script, he writes long, heartfelt letters home to Columbus, Miss.†   (source)
  • My studio isn't as elegant as it was but all the equipment's there.†   (source)
  • This was a woman who when I was a tiny child had hosted elegant parties and prided herself on her home's grandeur.†   (source)
  • The Macleans' apartment was on the eighth floor of an elegant old building on Central Park West.†   (source)
  • You could paint something simple, something elegant.†   (source)
  • The answer, when it comes, is obvious and elegant.†   (source)
  • Either I was a little slow or the language was too elegant, because I was nodding my head in respectful agreement when, suddenly, it hit me what he meant.†   (source)
  • Towering to nearly Mr. McDaniels's height, she was an elegant woman whose age Max found impossible to estimate.†   (source)
  • This is a stark change for a woman so often consumed by appearing nothing less than elegant.†   (source)
  • -the elegant Dr. Ferris of the State Science Institute, the servant of the people, with the patent-leather vocabulary-but he carried it off pretty well, I must say, only you could see him squirming in every paragraph-I mean, that interview he gave out this morning, where he said, 'The country gave Rearden that Metal, now we expect him to give the country something in return.'†   (source)
  • Miss Love had written her about "a stylish cloak that is inexpensive but will look elegant on you."†   (source)
  • And if you wanted simple but elegant, there were plenty to choose from.†   (source)
  • Abigail's arms moved with elegant grace along the shining gold strings of the harp.†   (source)
  • Tappan made sure that the men were outfitted in tailored suits and top hats, and that Margru wore simple but elegant dresses.†   (source)
  • Tell me, you are finely educated, but do you have an elegant hand?†   (source)
  • The pragmatists weighed in with equally forceful, if less elegant, expressions.†   (source)
  • This elegant little biped has long been valued as a delicacy.†   (source)
  • Good taste is absorbed through the skin, like rays from the sun, in this elegant, tasteful section of Lake Forest, Illinois, a direct quote from a newspaper article.†   (source)
  • He liked to gaze up the stairs and imagine his daughter sweeping down them, an elegant young woman in a white satin wedding gown.†   (source)
  • And more elegant-looking.†   (source)
  • An immaculate man, tidy as a photograph, soft-voiced, almost elegant.†   (source)
  • I think the most elegant, graceful duck is the pintail.†   (source)
  • The elegant red brick, however, sat on a foundation of ugly, scored concrete.†   (source)
  • 9s—if not at that exact tenth of a second, then as close to it as Mike could tell from blip tracks—elegant work, one must admit, on part of F.N. Peace Navy.†   (source)
  • Standard's headquarters is in the same massive but elegant Art Deco building, curving along Northern Boulevard, that has been its home since 1936.†   (source)
  • At length, the man in the elegant business suit turned.†   (source)
  • Not only were her fingers of an extraordinary length and shapeliness—such as, very generally speaking, one wouldn't have expected of a medium-stout woman's fingers—but they featured, as it were, a somewhat imperial-looking tremor; a deposed Balkan queen or a retired favorite courtesan might have had such an elegant tremor.†   (source)
  • He demonstrates, elegant.†   (source)
  • "I think there's something quite elegant about it.†   (source)
  • I stood at the elegant brick-and-wrought-iron gates, under thick palm trees that sheltered the school from the roaring city street.†   (source)
  • She sat before an elegant telephone and an electric typewriter.†   (source)
  • The elegant one shouted, "You can't lie to Christophe.†   (source)
  • She walked in on soft, elegant chaos. an impression of emanations, mutually interfering, from the stub-antennas of everybody's exposed nerve endings.†   (source)
  • I said fidelity would become you more, to use an elegant variation.†   (source)
  • But HELEN discarding them comes to the elegant doll.†   (source)
  • Even from downstairs, and through the cries of excited children, the elegant rush and click of the train could be heard through the ceiling, running around and around its figure eight.†   (source)
  • Even I knew I would be no ornament to this elegant and expensive pleasure dome.†   (source)
  • MARIA Dressed so elegant?†   (source)
  • They were looking for a place to camp when Peter saw them: a cluster of eight or nine long-billed, stalk-like birds, slim, silver-grey, and elegant, standing one-legged on the water's edge.†   (source)
  • I'd never seen a man who looked so elegant.†   (source)
  • His elegant red cotton shirt with the stiff, nicely shaped collar was open at the neck—it was part of the stylishness he had learned from her.†   (source)
  • She was tall, as tall as Will Jr himself, and thin, and elegant as glass.†   (source)
  • The ferryman, being astonished to see such an elegant man walking along and on foot, took him into his boat and pushed it off the bank.†   (source)
  • The Masque of Blood was quite lovely, having been written by the poet Adasay, who was noted for his elegant language, being of the anti-Morganic school.†   (source)
  • This was the most elegant car in the train.†   (source)
  • Outside the hotel entrance stood a narrow, elegant-looldng sleigh; the horse was covered with a cloth and had bandaged fetlocks.†   (source)
  • Near to the right wall, another bigger, rectangular table, also covered with papers, proofs, etc. Two more chairs stand at each end of this table—more elegant and imposing chairs.†   (source)
  • It specialized mostly in piezoelectric crystal recordings… tiny jewels mounted in elegant settings.†   (source)
  • There is graceless losing, and there is elegant losing.†   (source)
  • People in elegant suits and winter cloaks hurried to get out of the cold.†   (source)
  • They'd have said he was about to destroy an elegant concept.†   (source)
  • Jane stared at Eleanor's elegant red ball gown, the perfect flow of silk.†   (source)
  • Of course, we will be more elegant and bold than the church was.†   (source)
  • Next to her sat a beautiful gray-eyed woman in an elegant white dress.†   (source)
  • Mine should have been shinier and more elegant.†   (source)
  • All these elegant bookshelves are empty.†   (source)
  • "Oh, your Chinese is the Beijing dialect, very elegant," LuLing said.†   (source)
  • He held out a hand dressed in a narrowly elegant black leather glove.†   (source)
  • When the door opened, he found himself in an elegant, private foyer.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure you'll find some elegant way to hide it," Pari says.†   (source)
  • Above the image, an elegant headline asked Who do YOU want as Queen?†   (source)
  • We still have those long, lean, elegant skis stored in Mother's basement.†   (source)
  • He's exchanged his military clothes for an elegant, white-vested suit, and his hair is freshly cut.†   (source)
  • But she would say, 'This formula is so elegant, so beautiful.'†   (source)
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