6 uses
- Under the circumstances, the here and now, it was a gesture that lacked elegance.p. 344.8
- "You do not have an elegant mind " Elegant mind was just mathtalk, that patronizing jargon the math nerds used, but it hurt Jimmy anyway.p. 142.4
- "You do not have an elegant mind " Elegant mind was just mathtalk, that patronizing jargon the math nerds used, but it hurt Jimmy anyway.p. 142.4
- They have a really elegant delivery system — they embed a virus inside a carrier bacterium, E. coli splice, doesn't get digested, bursts in the pylorus, and bingo!p. 211.4
- They'd have said he was about to destroy an elegant concept.p. 212.8
- It was an elegant concept, said Crake, though it still needed some tweaking.p. 295.5
There are no more uses of "elegant" in Oryx and Crake.
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