By prior arrangement Washington went to stay at the elegant and comfortable home of David Deshler. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There are cots arranged in two straight rows, with trunks beside them for what we brought with us, and large windows with elegant curtains on the opposite end of the room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The elegant Arctic terns cut swirls in the sky, a spider crept under a stone, and the snow buntings flitted and called. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast had been brought in and placed on the table in an elegant silver chafing dish. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A man in an elegant red cardinal's robe and a high lace collar stood resting against an enormous Bible and now began to lead a hard-driving hymn which the congregation shouted in the unknown tongue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The terrifying economy of evolution had again produced the most elegant solution to gene regulation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dad had named me after her; Mom suggested adding the second N to make it more elegant and French. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her coffee-colored hands looked old, but well-manicured and elegant, so I imagined she was a grandmother who had once been a beautiful lady. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The less elegant crowded through the main entrance and into a kind of courtyard. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A tall row of elegant, lathe-turned spindles separated this table from the kitchen, allowing talk to pass from one room to the other. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore an elegant sleeveless dress of woven gold, her dark hair piled into a cone, encircled with diamonds and emeralds. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised by Dr. Cooke’s paintings, though; judging from her elegant style, I thought she’d have better taste in art. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Once again he was dressed in an elegant coat and a shirt with lace cuffs. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and elegant, with chocolate-colored skin and bleached-blond hair shaved military style. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

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. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I keep focusing on his long, elegant fingers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she noticed Mohammed’s writing, addressed to her in care of the University of Biafra, in long elegant sweeps. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had traded his elegant evening suit for a breezy white nightshirt, the collar unbuttoned to reveal the smooth muscularity of his chest. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a brand-new, limited-edition electric skateboard, sleek and light, painted in elegant black and white. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked as it had when Koffi had walked in, as old and elegant as ever, but she swallowed hard when she realized her mistake. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was an elegant villa with lakes dotted with orange fish and moon gates that led to courtyards lined with trees. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“As far as finishing and doing an elegant job . . . that wasn’t Oppie’s style.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was an elegant, or at least harmonious, cluster of yellow stucco houses with red roofs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But Dorian, tall, toned, and elegant, bore no resemblance to him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to place where he is, until he sees the elegant ivory curtains at the edge of the frame. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The food was elegant and expensive, and the aisles were overflowing with great streams of flushed and merry proprietors, all stout and balding. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I see. It’s nice to have accomplishments and be elegant, but not to show off or get perked up,” said Amy thoughtfully. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is in a perfect bun, and her earrings are sparkly and elegant. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

An elegant Parisian lady took great pleasure in this game. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long, elegant hands brushed his cheek, then tightened around his throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her jeweled rings sparkle like tiny stars caught between her elegant fingers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In its elegant simplicity, the wetu’s design would have pleased the most demanding modernist architect. than the typical English wattle-and-daub house, too. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Will shaded his eyes to watch her and the other ragged, elegant figures wheel in the air and dart up over the trees. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of myself as a little girl perched in the tree, pretending to be an elegant, beautiful indigena riding in my truck to exciting places. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

To Copernicus, his model was better than that of Ptolemy because it was, in modern parlance, more elegant. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It looked like Immie had said it would, hilly and quaint, yet expansive and elegant. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Angular and elegant, he was precariously thin, with nervous hands and a shrewd albino face and a short, fiery mop of the reddest hair I had ever seen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The elegant soldier leapt from his peak into the sky and found himself a pretty angel to swing with. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Most people were dressed in dark and rough brown clothing, but some were very elegant in bright colors and fur trim. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The only imperfection on him is his knuckles—they’re bruised, newly scarred, and surprising on his otherwise elegant hands, as if he had been in a fight. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hurriedly they went through their respective mathematics and discovered that Bill had used an elegant derivation compared to Francis’ more laborious approach. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The elegant company was welcome, but Roy kept his eyes fastened on the creek. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two words were written in his elegant script. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ignatius had bought a large, elegant, limited edition of the English translation, and all fifteen dollars of its price hit Patrolman Mancuso in the head with the force of a dictionary. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was graced with broad avenues thirty meters wide, elegant architecture and statuary, Alexander’s monumental tomb, and an enormous lighthouse, the Pharos, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claudia loved the city because it was elegant; it was important; and busy. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cook, an elegant man from Cotonou, made a groundnut stew that she loved. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A perfect cube five feet high, the altar in our camp was capped with a triumvirate of carefully selected pointed stones, above which rose a ten-foot wooden pole crowned with an elegant juniper bough. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They passed the Municipal Trade Bank, a huge, elegant fortress with marble pillars and an iguanodon-mounted guard on either side of the mighty doorway. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

White Americans have thought of it as their shame, and have envied those more civilized and elegant European nations that were untroubled by the presence of black men on their shores. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She could not think about names; she was too distracted by the glorious gowns the women wore, the elegant way they carried their fans, the colorful headpieces that perched on their heads like pet cockatoos. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I continued playing but was unable to concentrate because I kept the corner of my eye on his restless hands, the elegant fingertips that danced against the pale blue fabric of his pants. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He did not look so elegant here in a pair of grease-stained coveralls, but he walked in the same easy saunter. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We were gathered around her as if we’d never in all our fives heard of delicious food or elegant people! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The architecture was more elegant too, more modern, and I saw parks where roses and jasmine bloomed in the shadows of trees. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re so lucky, Virginia!” they say when they visit me at the hotel, ogling the indoor garden and skylight and elegant furniture. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It must have been thought of as elegant when it was built.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger than the Artificery, it had elegant lines, a red tile roof, high windows, arched doorways and pillars. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She suddenly felt shy around Diana, who seemed even more imposing away from the looms when her lovely, elegant voice was pitched rich and low like the call of a mourning dove. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The maitre d’ was a small, elegant man who looked up toward a massive, red-faced man who stood six feet four inches tall and weighed over two hundred and twenty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave orders that a damask table-cloth should be draped over the ping-pong table, and in the end it looked really quite elegant after all. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the one tipping out of alignment, the whole elegant scheme had torn, frayed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Next to her sat a beautiful gray-eyed woman in an elegant white dress. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He had no idea what they meant, but they looked very grand and elegant. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She gave her most elegant little screech of horror, just like a great lady who has seen a mouse. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most elegant and sublime of these is a representation of the creation of the universe at the beginning of each cosmic cycle, a motif known as the cosmic dance of Shiva. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Haupt passed by the store windows, he saw their displays of elegant clothing. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She's the meanest of the guards but also the most elegant, with her neatly combed hair pinned into a tight knot. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

An elegant dome punctuated the cluster of official-looking buildings in downtown Brooklyn, and there was the wide stretch of Flatbush Avenue that ran from the ferry terminal up to the top of Dactyl Hill. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His arguments were not those we use today, but they were subtle and elegant, derived from everyday life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Greek poet would never have thought of an elegant dress and coiffure for the wood nymph. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one could question his talent for divining the significance of the results produced by his elegant handmade equipment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The silver towers of the partially completed Bay Bridge rose dramatically from the water before them, elegant spires stretching with surprising grace across the bay toward Treasure Island and San Francisco. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Out of this she made herself a heavy but elegant dress with velvet collar and pockets. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His posture seemed the model of graciousness and elegant accommodation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Although the letter is unsigned, the writing is in an elegant, feminine hand. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Charles’s body had been moved from the country coffin to an elegant city casket draped in black velvet and sprinkled with white blossoms. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice gestured with her tiny hands, and what Olanna had once thought to be an elegant fragility suddenly became a self-absorbed conceit, a luxurious selfishness; Alice spoke as if she alone suffered from the war. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Merritts gave me a silver vanity set complete with brush, comb, and rotating mirror, which was the sort of elegant gift I preferred over toys. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was an elegant demonstration of how to organize applied science, and for this reason it would have been a surprise if it had not succeeded. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lincoln’s eyes roam over the elegant wood desk, which Davis had so thoughtfully tidied before running off two days earlier. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! no. You are very obliging to say such things—but certainly not. There is no comparison between them. Miss Campbell always was absolutely plain—but extremely elegant and amiable.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The ensemble he fears looks silly on himself would have looked dignified, elegant, befitting his father in a way he knows it does not him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And so they were: ragged elegant black shapes sweeping past high above, with a hiss and swish of air through the needles of the cloud-pine branches they flew on. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She had waited all these years for a place of her own, and here it was, in an elegant building where rich people lived. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waved back to everyone in elegant reciprocation and showered generous handfuls of foil-covered Hershey kisses to the rejoicing multitudes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In this way, it will become clear that even the most transformative, elegant- seeming solution, appearing by inspiration two thousand years before its time, was the result of a struggle. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Therefore, to use the expressive, if not elegant, language of a schoolgirl, “He was as nervous as a witch and as cross as a bear”. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I proceeded to draw the outline of an exceptionally elegant giraffe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael watched Hatsue pull sheets from the line, standing in a pool of muted porch light with her arms illuminated and elegant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not exactly elegant, and my hair isn’t exactly stylish—I just cut it off square around my neck. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There is to their pose an aristocratic formality, an elegant Latin hauteur. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worried that I had created an unbridgeable divide by rejecting them and choosing my uncle, with his elegant home in the promised land of Saratoga. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He opens his eyes to see Henry bringing his hand demurely up to his elegant royal mouth to spit on it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And with that elegant parting response, Root followed his squad into the night air. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He stopped by a large door set between two elegant bay windows, and knocked loudly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement—plants and animals each inhaling the other’s exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your elegant apology does not answer my question.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A couple of my coworkers— team leaders, in fact—delight in putting the pedal to the metal and terrorizing the elegant neighborhoods we serve. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mohammed’s handwriting was like him—patrician and long, with elegant flourishes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He would think she had always lived in an elegant little house on the East Side. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm wounded. I strive to look elegant every day." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe. If she does not object to it, why should we?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

From the elegant boardwalk surrounded by pine and birch trees, I looked out at these naturists and wondered what I always wonder: What is it like to feel free like that? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Earlier, while he was trying to fall asleep, Lazlo’s first thought was to make an elegant sort of parlor to receive her in if she came. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“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.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It was in Elf Ear, Nebraska, and the year was 1910, and my granny was eight years old, and her father was the most elegant and deceitful magician who ever lived.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No one will. They’ll love it. I wore one to Baba’s holiday party, and all the ladies said it was so elegant and commented on the fabric.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Lady Seymour, the only other woman present, looked like an elegant spider wrapped in her black lace shawl. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Xaro was a languid, elegant man with a bald head and a great beak of a nose crusted with rubies, opals, and flakes of jade. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Throw this on anything, and it will freeze an enemy in their tracks. Plus, it’s an excellent accessory. Perfectly understated. Very elegant. Timeless.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a wind that offered no relief from the heat, but it caught Lillian’s hair and pushed it softly back, an auburn shining pennant, a surrogate windsock, revealing a long, elegant neck. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cylinder catches the light, projecting a group of elegant men and women on the wall like glittering, colorful beads. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Penelope finally settled on a lovely blank journal that she thought would make an elegant gift. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Water was rare, but the elegant network of canals carried the life-giving fluid all over the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their dresses are of bold, forceful color; their figures elegant, long; the stance theatrical. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a tall, elegant woman who had a way of talking to pupils that made you feel good about yourself even if you were being punished. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Some of the most elegant families in Salinas today are descended from these girls. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her blond hair was precision cut, and her jewelry was subdued yet elegant. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The woman stood up in one swift, elegant movement. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The doctor stopped in his tracks with a look of elegant amazement and distaste, and the ward grew still. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As Dewey approached them, he saw that another visitor was already there: a willowy girl with white-gloved hands, a smooth cap of dark-honey hair, and long, elegant legs. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since she determined we were elegant ladies, too big to get our dresses dirty crawling around on the floor, we had to find a better spot. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I was dropped off, I had to walk across the hotel’s long and elegant veranda, where several dozen whites were sitting and drinking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it can make you look like an elegant princess trapped in time. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Behind him in the courtyard stood an elegant carriage drawn by a pair of matched white horses. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am Monsoon. I make the world elegant with a dress of water.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some people consider which more refined or elegant than that. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not a materials engineer; my design for the bedroom isn't elegant. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simple but elegant wedding took place at the home of Jimmy’s eldest sister, Helen. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Cosmos is rich beyond measure—in elegant facts, in exquisite interrelationships, in the subtle machinery of awe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now her steps are smoother—more elegant, maybe, but lacking the childish joy I associate with her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Would the doorman shout at her not to hang around the elegant hotel? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Everything’s so hip and elegant here, and no normal conversation feels worthy. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

That seems to me such an economical yet elegant way of giving praise while making a demand. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Barbarossa just shrugged impassively and reached into his elegant new jacket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Phillip was slender and elegant, his red silk shirt open at the neck. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lord Petyr was seated on his window seat, languid and elegant in a plush plum-colored doublet and a yellow satin cape, one gloved hand resting on his knee. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I lift it carefully into the air to admire the exquisite balance, the elegant design, and the curve of the limbs that somehow suggests the wings of a bird extended in flight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Bo, however, would have loved to sneak with Scipio into the city's most elegant houses to steal all the amazing things the Thief Lord always brought back from his raids. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ben started the engine and they moved out of the driveway slowly, each of them looking at the grand and elegant house for a last time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danielle is so elegant that her hair stays in place as she runs. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The elegant woman’s serene face twitched with controlled laughter. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The women follow immediately behind the hippopotamus wagon, dressed all in black and pressing elegant lace hankies to the corners of their eyes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In what seemed to him like elegant if slow motion, Milkman went to the window, parted the curtain, and followed her pointing finger with his eyes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was too slim and elegant for beauty contests. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went to one of Reykjavik’s most expensive and elegant restaurants and were said to have a long conversation, mainly about politics. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors spread of half-clad women jiggling away, when in fact the dance was elegant, stylized, and rather chaste. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She can pick up a single peanut with elegant precision, tickle a passing mouse, tap the shoulder of a dozing keeper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He’s not really elegant, but he’s hardly ever sad. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Come along, Sir James. To our bath. Bring your most elegant pajamas. The ones embroidered in gold with silver tassels will do.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burnham was a talented artist and architect in his own right, but his greatest strength lay in his ability to win clients and execute Root’s elegant designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For the first time we noted the clarity of her complexion, the length and languor of her eyelashes, the undeniably elegant armature of her hands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

As he passed each gorgeous peony and peach blossom, every elegant chrysanthemum and lily, he heard horrified murmurs. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Winnie always dressed up for prison visits, and tried to wear something new and elegant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the elegant sort of curved nose you saw in statues and paintings, and his nostrils were perfectly proportioned. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I feel like one of those saints the Doctorita is always praying to, like the Virgin of Banos in elegant robes and a giant crown who does miracles for desperate people. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute she simply stares at the name centered at the top of the resume, laser-printed in an elegant font. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I left the cafe and walked to the elegant Whitney Hotel. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Golden Gray went into the second room to change his clothes—this time he chose something formal, elegant. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His black hair was cropped close, and he had the most elegant Persian nose of anyone I had ever met. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“How nice it sounds! I wish someone would write to me so!” said Amy, who thought the old-fashioned address very elegant. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t that sound sort of elegant and rich? Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her long and elegant hair is pinned up in a golden swirl, and she reminds me of the chrysanthemum flower on the Orléansian emblem. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She looked elegant in a knee-length tan dress. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a particularly elegant structure—but maybe that was asking too much. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Gone were the elegant handmade suits and carefully knotted ties. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Extraterrestrial intelligence will be elegant, complex, internally consistent and utterly alien. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the more formal attire of men in Kraków and gradually purchased several elegant suits. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Three gleaming feathers streamed beneath her, elegant ribbons of light. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was longer and a little more elegant and more feminine. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Entering the sparkling city of Budapest, Fischer checked into one of the most romantic and elegant hotels in the city, the Gellért, right on the Danube, and had lunch on the terrace. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Precisely at that point it vanished--and I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He wheeled die horse gracefully, still something of that elegant quality of display in the fluid motion, and rode off. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were state-of-the- art, so elegant and streamlined that people liked to say they seemed to be in motion while still on the racks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And Henry, flushed and callow and lean, elegant and thrown wide open, his face always turned toward Alex, his mouth unguarded around a laugh, willing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The elegant woman stretched her hand out for me to shake. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Their musicians blew horns, and even from this height, he could hear their elegant melodies. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She had done something with her hair; it was no longer bushy but sleek and shiny, and twisted up into an elegant knot at the back of her head. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

According to Du Barry, it should be elegant yet regal, memorable but not eccentric, and most of all, fit for royalty. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the center of one knot of elegant guests a cowboy with a little riding crop flicked the crop at one of his fans, producing a response of exaggerated screaming and pleased giggling. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even I knew I would be no ornament to this elegant and expensive pleasure dome. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Conibear wanted now was the kind of shells they made in England: long, sleek, elegant shells. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Before him was a blue-haired, aristocratic woman, very small, elegant, and old. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten stories high, its elegant turrets hold balconies trimmed with shiny night-ivy. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Why should one not enjoy in a lighthearted sort of way stories of ladies and gentlemen who fall in love and express their feelings for each other, often in the most elegant phraSes? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Very nicely dressed, indeed; a remarkably elegant gown.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Farther down the wall, a tall black man in an elegant colonial military uniform stood on top of a jungle mountain. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I’d think it was a dodo, only dodos are extinct. This will make an elegant picture, if I can ever get her to turn around.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

She is twisting and bending in such a way that it seems both horrible and elegant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She came to sit calmly at his side, alert and elegant and dangerous, her tawny eyes surveying the room before turning, like his black ones, to the door from the hall as the handle turned. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They were young and elegant, dressed for a ball, the women in long gowns that left their arms and shoulders bare, the men in black-and-white evening dress, and they each carried a glass. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The hospital went about its business without involving the prisoner in the elegant drawing room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry steps forward, and Oscar looks him up and down—the Burberry bag, the cooler on his shoulder, the elegant smile, the extended hand. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the barracks facing ours there lived an elegant woman who astounded me each time I saw her. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wears a dark coat that is too large for her, but she carries herself in such a way that it seems to hang like a cloak and the effect is rather elegant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t know that you were working for Dr. C, does he? Don’t worry, Tally,” she whispered, putting one elegant finger to her lips. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Bando rinsed Dad’s soup bowl in the snow, and with great ceremony and elegance—he could really be elegant when the occasion arose—poured him a turtle shell of sassafras tea. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, just as April began and classes were winding down, she found herself in the guest room at the Ryans’ elegant apartment. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everything a human could want was there, from the grand lobby on the ground floor to the elegant Starlight Room one mile up. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly this elegant gentleman was startled out of his state of indolent contentment. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he sinks into thoughts of Henry’s hands, square knuckles and elegant fingers, he wonders how he never realized it before. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The ponds that had replaced Olmsted’s elegant paths shuddered under the impact of a billion falling droplets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He remembers his mother, her long hair pulled back from her face in an elegant, no-nonsense twist at the back of her head. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His normal intolerance of affectation did not extend to the elegant symmetry of Mess Night. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was addressed in strong but elegant handwriting that I’d seen once before, on a package Poseidon had sent me last summer. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

On Easter Sunday the Lykes staff took us to one of our sponsor’s homes—an elegant waterfront mansion—for an egg hunt. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Both women stayed at the elegant Hermitage Hotel, which became ground zero in the suffrage fight. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A lady, elegant in her bright pink-and-purple-printed African dress with a matching head wrap stands up, her body stiff with anger. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Most of it looked to be journal entries, all scrawled out in elegant script. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But what if the structure of DNA was so simple—so elegant—that it could be deduced by “common sense,” by model building? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

To help her students learn, she engraved a series of elegant flower prints they could use as templates for their own work. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Both had elegant yellow cedar washboards, ash frames, Sitka-spruce gunnels, fore and after decking made of silk impregnated with varnish. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Four days later, the vessel deposited them in the farthest province of the North, where their elegant travel attire and crocodile bags went unnoticed in the dry, suffocating heat of the siesta. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To pass the time, everybody was soon discussing how the tall young Greek with the elegant bearing had become enamored of the dark beauty who was never seen anywhere without her carved olivewood box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The carving, to my taste, is beautifully done, as graphically elegant, despite the gory subject matter, as a Matisse. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The division would be associated with lunar orbit rendezvous, one of the most ingenious and elegant solutions to the challenge of propelling extraordinarily heavy objects on the several-hundred-thousand-mile journey to the Moon and back. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He bared his bruised knuckles at me, a startling contrast to the elegant finery of his silver rings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A voice, speaking English with an elegant Hausa accent, announced that the passengers from the London flight should proceed to board the flight for Lagos. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was decorated with fine paintings, elegant furniture, and carpets. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theodor, in a series of elegant experiments, has shown that when two individuals of the same species are placed in close contact, the smaller of the two will always begin to disintegrate. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly believe it was me, Melba Pattillo, sitting on a stage in that elegant gold room with its stately place in America’s history. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Only a week before, the waterfront’s elegant open-air cafes had been filled with naval officers and diplomats; now the quay was a holding pen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I am an elegant fellow in her pictures, with my silver back gleaming like moon on moss. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He was sustained, though, by seeing her once more reel in laundry— elegant hand over elegant hand—drop the clothespins in a bucket on the railing, then fold shirts, sheets, and towels. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Celia soon grew to love Havana, its crooked streets and the balconies like elegant chariots in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But these unbelievably elegant apartments will be shown by appointment only. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The overall effect is slightly morbid and incredibly elegant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Swans swam past like elegant ships, and the village was all pastel with patches of blue shadow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

How could so elegant and romantic a bed smell so musty? From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many words convey subtle shades of meaning, provide glimpses into the history of the language, conform to elegant principles of assembly, or enliven prose with distinctive imagery, sound, and rhythm. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Pretty nothings from an elegant lady who had something beautiful to wear them under. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Everything about him was as crisp and elegant as freshly pressed silk. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A tall, elegant man came into focus with his arms outstretched and a face of pure empathy. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The elegant young man spilled his daiquiri on his bottle-green velvet jacket. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elegant public relations agent, Grumette conducted a regular chess salon in her home, which players paid to attend. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her white gloves, which I refused to wear because they made my hands feel clumsy, are effortlessly elegant. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he had a gap-toothed smile and an elegant, scarred face. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chandresh pauses, still looking at the girl on the stage who, while comparatively elegant, does not appear particularly unusual. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Becker was captivated by John Dean’s wife, Maureen, who sat behind her husband when he was testifying and wore elegant clothes and pulled her blond hair back in a tight bun. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Numbers are so clean and elegant; people are so messy and complicated.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is barely more than a silhouette, slender and elegant, wearing a fedora that shadows his face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From the cedar stock he found there—long, tight-grained, straight sections cut from massive, ancient trees—he could mill elegant planks of wood twenty inches or more wide and sixty feet long. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the distance, perched on a low rise, was an elegant, stately home with long windows and multiple chimneys. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the elegant way of innocent men, he accepted his gift graciously. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It would be an elegant solution to the problem of space, they thought, one that made the hearts of the NACA’s old-school “wing men” beat faster. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She sat before an elegant telephone and an electric typewriter. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there Isa was, standing before her, looking so elegant and grown up in the peach gown, not looking a bit appalled by the idea of going to a fancy-pants dance. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Dressed in his tuxedo and feeling conspicuously elegant, Ben came downstairs on the night of the prom. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Love had written her about “a stylish cloak that is inexpensive but will look elegant on you.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was here Claudia knew for sure that she had chosen the most elegant place in the world to hide. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in a flowered dress, she is lost in a sea of pinstripes and gray suits, high heels and elegant short skirts, Reebok sneakers, dashing from building to building. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Not for us,” Madeline had said, twisting the stem of the wineglass between her elegant fingers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The skies started to brighten as I unwrapped an elegant wooden box. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They are an elegant act of racism, killing fields authored by federal policies, where we are, all again, plundered of our dignity, of our families, of our wealth, and of our lives. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The plate was elegant, light green, the same color as the avocado. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wrote several drafts of it and then copied it out in the fine, elegant hand Miss Whitlaw had taught me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, Fischer composed an elegant apology to Spassky. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And so Edward Tulane was mended, put together again, cleaned and polished, dressed in an elegant suit and placed on a high shelf for display. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

His response came at a reception in July at Berkeley’s elegant Claremont Hotel, marking Livermore’s launch as a national laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the first part of January their offers arrived on stiff, elegant stationery. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa was elegant that day, in a brand-new double-breasted worsted suit, with vest and silk tie and stickpin. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drafted plans, elegant plans, in eighth-, quarter-, and half-inch scale. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

New York was known for its architecture, the elegant brownstones, the towering skyscrapers, the grand museums. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was bound in dark brown tooled leather, and the frontispiece was a painting of a fairy woman, elegant and pale, wearing a beautiful golden gown. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The people who come in here want dolls, not rabbits. They want baby dolls or elegant dolls such as myself, dolls with pretty dresses, dolls with eyes that open and close.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“Don’t I look elegant? New York City’s really elegant, you know.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

This evening she wore a bird’s nest for a crown, and an elegant green bird was perched in it, singing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She laid the book on the desktop and stroked the worn cover, her elegant inky fingers tracing the discolored leather. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her white hair—braided, perhaps; perhaps not—she touched as though replacing a wayward strand from an elegant coiffure. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been thinking it through as the spirits swarmed in: Their mural on the outside of the Tower—the dragon and the elegant, guitar-playing skeleton—reached all the way to the fifth floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“In an elegant way, though. And, no, you don’t have to show me the printout of your balls, Seanie.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her pupils were daughters of the best families who had nothing to do and had taken up the fashion of ceramics, which was more elegant than knitting for the poor, as their grandmothers had done. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She threw her baton up in the air and caught it with an elegant twist of her wrist. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

"Yes, my dandies and I are here to the rescue. A Belle needs an elegant wardrobe, just like an artist needs a variety of ink and paint." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It is so elegant, so clever, that I almost laugh. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

From San Francisco he traveled by elegant Pullman car to Annapolis, where he was enrolled as a cadet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A blue-gray cat with round copper eyes posed on the cover, his elegant stance twisting his husky frame. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The dining room she stared out into was one of the most elegant places she’d ever seen. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“She is a sort of elegant creature that one cannot keep one’s eyes from. I am always watching her to admire; and I do pity her from my heart.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

It was a large stone structure, complete with Gothic arches over the entrances to the boat bays—a structure far more elegant than the clapboard homes most of them had come from. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Just outside, where her pupils played in the sand, a piece of shrapnel had drilled an elegant hole in the ground. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I dressed up for our New York date, putting on a black cocktail dress and lipstick, styling my hair in an elegant updo. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Be my guest,” he said indicating the floor under the platform with an elegant sweep of his hand. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an elegant deception, a mental pirouette. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The soil was in the room, too: The elegant table was covered with dozens of little canvas sacks filled with seedlings, and Sarai wondered how plants figured into the Godslayer’s plans to conquer the citadel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On March 10, 1962, a glamorous Katherine Johnson, bedecked in pearls and an elegant suit that would have made Jackie Kennedy proud, smiled from the front page of the Pittsburgh Courier. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Joseph looked again at the elegant woman in the painting above the fireplace. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A year after I started the column, I was in a small, overstaffed restaurant across the table from an aging, elegant woman in a silk turban who oversaw the International Best Dressed List. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, the smell of sheepskin! The elegant feel of the scroll unrolling beneath my hooves. You simply can’t duplicate it in something like that” He nodded indignantly at the guidebook in Jason’s hand. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looked older than in the picture Richard had seen, closer to seventy than sixty, but his was an elegant aging; his strides were long and his chin firm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I knew she felt elegant and glad to be there. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorcas next flung herself upon him, too excited to be elegant. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always feel especially elegant after a good pruning. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was shorter, and much less elegant, and there was a dull silver surface over each of the joins. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Here again the English language is mathematically elegant and provides the writer with a neat group of symmetries. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Inside, the rooms were almost empty—a large, once elegant country house stripped of all but a few mats, an altar in one comer of the first room, a funeral urn. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her elegant mother grabs at her, demanding she sit down. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, we don’t have to worry about these melting,” she used to say, holding a cone in her elegant, leather-gloved hand, her breath visible in the air even as she took a bite. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

By the time I left for college, Otto was a full-on adult bonobo, slender and elegant, with a part right along the center of his head, wiry hair flopping on either side. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past few years, Hideo has transformed from a lanky teenage genius into an elegant young man with piercing eyes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On either side of the aisle sit high-backed chairs filled with undeniably elegant women dressed in colorful silks, taffetas, satins, and crepes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The elegant ladies from the gallery scurried fearfully down the steps, hoisting their vast skirts above their ankles in an unseemly way. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer duly contrived “an elegant theory to rationalize these results,” and when Bohr came for his visit, the work was trotted out for him as a showpiece of Rad Lab science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

M. Dupont was a tall, elegant gentleman with a grey beard and a monocle. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the elegant and bedraggled refugees drift along and wondered whether to join them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was a small-boned man with thinning red hair and elegant clothes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they saw Mama, elegant in her fine dresses and high heels, they criticized her. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

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. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tom, confident that now he would be fed in the elegant way he was accustomed to, began to knead his paws and his purring grew hoarse with triumph. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Dorian, get him out!” an elegant shrieked in panic. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had scribbled the words in her notebook at least twelve different times in various handwriting styles, from bubbly to elegant. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She avoided the sun and used creams in elegant bottles, so that her complexion, already naturally light, became lighter, brighter, and took on a sheen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And the woman, a very elegant artist type with blond hair, had supposedly painted the apartment in terrible red and green colors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was slim and elegant, with a pointed beard, a bravo’s blade, and a slashed pink doublet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She announced the death of her godfather, Don Salomon Valdes, a broker at the stock exchange, who, convinced that he had lost everything he owned, hanged himself from the chandelier in his elegant office. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the saboteurs were to go off on their mission, Colonel Erwin von Lahousen, the chief of intelligence, hosted a dinner in the elegant private dining room of the Zoo Restaurant. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Editors sometimes call this attempt at elegant variation the Slender Yellow Fruit Syndrome. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall, elegant town houses and a few fashion boutiques lined the street, and there was a fancy florist shop on the corner. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s right,” an extremely elegant guest, whose taut face was brown with suntan makeup, said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still clinging to one of his big hands, she collapsed to the floor in an elegant curtsey. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we got home, Sisi brought up our lunch, rice and fried beef, on fawn-colored elegant plates, and Jaja and I ate alone. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her the elegant meal, with its many plates, goblets, glasses, and silverware, was gone. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of her sickle­shaped birthmark, the elegant curve of her neck, her luminous eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

John Jones joined them, opening a tailor shop to clean and repair elegant suits and dresses for the wealthy whites in town. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Beside the windows, two simple, elegant armchairs faced each other across a low round table on which a tea tray rested. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She laughed and flapped the hem of her elegant costume. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked cool and elegant in her long white dress. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the motion stopped, the riders were streaming away from her in an elegant spiral, leaving her alone with one man who looked down at her from his tall white horse. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eye and Ear were being fed snacks by an elegant woman in a diamond-studded robe. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was tall and stately, with broad shoulders and an elegant waist. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to see how little clothing she had; I’d always thought of her as an elegant woman. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This part of Oxscini was filled with tall elegant trees with leaves the size of their fists, and there was nothing but air between the canopy and the ferns on the jungle floor. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Not only was it private, it was elegant. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His features—the broad face, the flattened nose, the narrow, pleated eyes—looked so elegant. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to be the most elegant creature at the ball; I only had to see Char. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Against all logic, he continued to hope that sooner or later the quiet, awkward little girl who glided through his house would display the Frenchman’s elegant manners and refined charms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her elegant black dress and perfect posture, her matching black handkerchief to wipe her tears, her shoes with heels that punched holes in the grass. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mother was elegant and beautiful, stunning in fact, with an unusually wide smile that lit up everything around her. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The coat was a gift made by his own hands, its elegant cut proof of his fine craftsmanship. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Or rather she doesn’t look the way she did when I last saw her, in her wide cotton skirt and barbaric bracelet, elegant and confident. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Taryn’s eyes flash as she spins her sword in an elegant strike. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He has inherited Ashima’s eyes, large, penetrating, with bold, elegant brows, and shares with Ashoke the slight bump at the very top of his nose. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Today with their failing ivy and stripped, moaning trees the houses looked both more elegant and more lifeless than ever. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Queen had no intention of keeping him for long, but he was so different from her many courtiers, with their elegant clothes and cool, appraising blue eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The room had elegant floor-to-ceiling windows through which you could see the wide lawns of Grant Park and, beyond that, the white-capped swells of Lake Michigan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was an elegant man who dressed in a homburg and Brooks Brothers suits. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Jefferson was an elegant stylist, to be sure, which was one of the main reasons that he, John Adams, had selected him to draft the famous document in the first place. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Eril-Fane held up his arm, and the bird spiraled an elegant descent, luffed into the wind, and landed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her arms are angular, her neck elegant; her hair is pulled back like a ballerina’s. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have heard her speak of the acquaintance,” said Emma; “she is a very elegant young woman.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Why did some words seem more elegant, more graceful than others? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It went with his elegant clothes, his shoes with woven vamps, the glaze of his hair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Writing is often clearer and more elegant when a writer pushes an only or a not next to the thing that it quantifies. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The cities were spacious and elegant, the fields well tilled and fertile. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were this majestic, elegant thing sitting solid, sparkling in the light. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Beyond all other trees,” she said with a curl of a smile on her elegant mouth, “the willow moves to the wind’s desire.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Among all those elegant lords and ladies, she was the most elegant of all, in her bearing and in her appearance. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The theory was much too elegant not to be told in person— individuals like Dorothy who were clever enough to understand its power immediately were much too rare. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

To separate the facts from the hearsay contained in the bureau’s case files, White settled upon a simple but elegant approach: he would methodically try to corroborate each suspect’s alibi. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Poppy had told Liyana she would like the men’s elegant clothing in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates better. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll have blanc mange and strawberries for dessert, and coffee too, if you want to be elegant.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, their bright smiles—along with their elegant appearance—were for an instant so surprising and disarming that Reynie almost relaxed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

By all accounts, he was a “very elegant gentleman.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then she sits up even straighter, elegant on a crate in a dirty basement where people lost their lives. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by elegant waiters, elegant people and elegant food, I thought of the other parts of town where I would live in the days to come. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was an elegant Pentoshi, grey-haired and clad in silk but for his cloak, a ragged thing sewn from dozens of strips of tom, bloodstained cloth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I inhaled, passed it off to this Chicago girl, and when I brushed her long elegant fingers, I shuddered a bit from the blast. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Imagine that we had met any one of these four fresh out of law school, sitting in the elegant waiting room at Mudge Rose next to a blue-eyed Nordic type from the “right” background. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Like an ambassador to a hostile foreign country, my Guardian ad Litem was educated, elegant, and intimidating; however, Mrs. Moss ruled her fiefdom with an iron fist. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The next night, Mark Anthony hosted a dinner party in Cleopatra’s honor, intending to impress the queen with an elegant and beautifully appointed feast. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Mira, Pilar. I’m asking you as a favor. You could paint something simple, something elegant. Like the Statue of Liberty. Is that too much to ask?” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have written it while he looked, but his clear, elegant script intimidated me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her handwriting was impeccable—small, soft, and elegant numbers filled the pages of her account book. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

An elegant way to sidestep the law rather than breaking it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But, with luck, the addition of magnesium or possibly calcium ions to the sugar-phosphate backbone would quickly generate an elegant structure, the correctness of which would not be debatable. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Of course, he meant “Danger—gas!” but he thought “RSVP” looked more elegant. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Sabeen said, posing in the doorway with an elegant gown that was about four sizes too big. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A yellow cab pulled up in front of a building, and a fairly elegant looking lady got out. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed watching them, because they could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other’s way, and because their techniques of splitting and cutting and joining wood were so elegant and effective. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Many wore tokars, that peculiar garment beloved by the old blood of Slaver’s Bay, as elegant as it was impractical. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The skeletons of the green trees curved under the elegant weight of the snow, bowing and twisting like ribbons in the wind. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

"Oh, don't let me upset you," he said with an elegant gesture of self-disgust. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had an important keynote scheduled at an Islamic conference in Chicago, so I was happy to find some modest options tucked in the racks of elegant dresses. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Some of the Indian women wore their finest saris, made with gold filigree that draped in elegant pleats over their shoulders. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Marian, tall, slim, and elegant, with her assured stage presence, sang ten songs in German, an aria in Italian, and several spirituals in English. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Dunstan noticed how the silken fabric of her robe pressed itself against her body; he was aware of elegant curves, and of her violet eyes upon him, and he swallowed. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was simple, clean, and very elegant—we looked at things, said what we thought of them, and with more depth than I thought possible, we understood each other completely. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Blood managed the accounting and worked as Woodhull’s secretary, often writing documents for her, because she had never learned elegant penmanship or proper punctuation. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She and her husband bought a town house, took trips, ate in restaurants almost every night, and spent many Sunday afternoons at real estate open houses in Lexington’s elegant older neighborhoods. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My lapse in standing was the misfortune of being from the nouveau pauvre side of what passed for an elegant family there in the Pittsburgh of the South. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was quite elegant in her hat and scarf. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ignatius broke away from Dorian and rushed across the room, pushing through the elegant guests, and unplugged the phonograph. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A neatly trimmed mustache connected to a beard that covered only his chin lent him an elegant, vaguely aristocratic air. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They probably wouldn’t recognize me in a mask and an elegant gown, but I’d do well to keep away from them, especially from Hattie. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was considered the most elegant, discreet, and charming lady of their social circle and no one would have dreamt that the distinguished couple never spoke. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was thin and white, her features elegant. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now freshly painted wooden beams framed an elegant stained-glass window design. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Jesper said as they raced over the roof, catching glimpses of the elegant courtyards below, each built around a burbling fountain and dotted with rustling ice willows. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mingo, with his schemes for the next stage in the progress of the colored tribe, and Lander, whose elegant but opaque appeals offered no easy remedy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The design was so elegant, so adept at exploiting the strength of thin strands of steel, that the wheel appeared incapable of withstanding the stresses placed upon it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls were staying in a house south of Broad Street in the muted, elegant old section of the city. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys looked as elegant as Salvador and Lucky, and the girls wore beautiful long dresses of peach, turquoise, yellow, pink, violet, blue, green, and white. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She spent her mornings immobile in her chair, looking out the window at the bustle of the street, and observing the gradual decline of the neighborhood that in her youth had been so elegant. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a plaintive way of saying, “When Papa was rich we did so-and-so,” which was very touching, and her long words were considered ‘perfectly elegant’ by the girls. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, they carried the authority of middle pretties without the firm jaw, the subtly lined eyes, or the elegant clothing. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She had imagined it would be something more elegant. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Loose strands of hair cluttered the sides of her elegant face. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She moved with the quick steps of a thief, or a blackbird hunting insects, so sure and elegant that Tanin’s breath caught in her throat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It’s enormous, nearly the size of a commercial liner—except thin and sleek, with an elegant, sharp-nosed design that distinguishes it from the other jets. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wore an elegant black suit and black tie, and his demeanor was irresistibly cheerful, which put my grandfather at ease. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There are countless tattoos, and yet they meld and flow into one design gracefully adorning her like an elegant, unusual piece of jewelry. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an elegant sport, far removed from the cotton fields and outhouses of his youth. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“A string quartet, and all the men in their elegant new officers’ uniforms. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She had expected someone much more elegant; this man wore black riding leathers and a black shirt that looked as if it had seen better days. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The balance of my life was elegant only from a distance, and only if you squinted, but there was at least something there that resembled balance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was very tall, and always wore an elegant blue uniform with silver buttons and a bright white sash across his chest. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I am the smooth, elegant black cat who slips from the house as a liquid shadow after dark. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She struggled, and Rasalas increased the pressure of its elegant hoof against her chest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And her mom...her mom was beautiful and brilliant and elegant. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In those days, proving a mathematical theorem was often as simple as drawing an elegant picture; the tools of ancient Greek mathematics weren’t pencil and paper—they were a straightedge and compasses. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The tall, elegant woman of my audition had become my mentor through my three years there. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Amanda Werner and several other beautiful, elegant, conically breasted foreign ladies, from unspecified vaguely defined countries, plus a few bucolic so-called humorists, comprised Buster’s perpetual core of repeats. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Until this was clear, the objection could be raised that, although our idea was aesthetically elegant, the shape of the sugar-phosphate backbone might not permit its existence. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I look, as I always do in Julia’s pictures, like an elegant fellow, but something is different about this drawing. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Feigning an equal gravity, Sam made an elegant leg, and delivered a short, sharp kick to the barrel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The long bottles Sisi brought looked as though they contained an elegant liquid, the way they tapered like a slender, shapely woman. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And an elegant, beautiful young businesswoman, who people regard with respect. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had written beside him Dr. Jonathan Wick in elegant, old-fashioned script. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I met the queen of Belgium, Queen Mathilde, who looked young and elegant. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He and Señor Diaz stepped inside the shop, which sold items that charros might buy such as jackets, ruffled shirts, whips, and elegant riding boots. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

They certainly were good hard workers—except when Dorcas tried too hard to be elegant. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters gave us an elegant lunch—meaning our meat came from a tin instead of the slaughter shed—on a clean tablecloth in the apartment they shared three stories above the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The food on the table looks so elegant. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was an elegant woman, and a political activist in her own right, a founder of Women in Action for the Prevention of Violence, an interracial Durham organization dedicated to working for peaceful integration. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

These learners have highly developed auditory skills and are generally elegant speakers. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Liyana realized she was staring at the subtle valley above his upper lip, the small elegant dip under his nose. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here on 42nd Street it was less elegant but no less strange. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You got to wait a little bit,” Zannikos said to a pride of elegant women who had spent the morning at the Whitney Museum of American Art, across Madison Avenue at 75 th Street. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She moved like the most elegant ballerina, like she could fly if she set her mind to it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Off in the distant horizon lay the reality that the task of reaching the necessary energies would overmatch the elegant bench science of Rutherford’s generation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There was no trace of the small mound nor the elegant arched entrance. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t doubt it,” he snapped, reshelving the magazines with elegant, careful movements at odds with his harsh words. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I want to be like you were, Mama, bright and elegant, creating beauty all around you, always kind. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The booming voice belonged to a powerful man with dark hair and broad shoulders who sat upon an elegant brown horse. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

This is the elegant, delicate picture I have in my mind, about other little girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One elegant house faced a billboard advertising “The Museum of Jewish Hatred.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s exchanged his military clothes for an elegant, white- vested suit, and his hair is freshly cut. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I was introduced to Horchow through his daughter, who is a friend of mine, and I went to see him in his Manhattan pied-a-terre, an elegant apartment high above Fifth Avenue. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a prunus vase—the most elegant of all the shapes. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

There were several square, solid tables covered with family pictures and random books and magazines, and also three small, elegant tables not used for anything. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was a rowing uniform—white shorts and an elegant white jersey with a U.S. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was tall and elegant, every feature perfection. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, we arrive at the far end of the enormous room, stopping before a cluster of elegant blue velvet chairs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawrence built an elegant mechanism out of brass and steel. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Shame rose from the ground and wrapped me in a hot, turbulent funnel that I wished would lift me out of this room, away from my school principal’s startled blue eyes and quivering, elegant fingers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He found the bedrooms—huge, elegant rooms with beautifully carved beds and long, mirrored closets. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Penworth plays Bach on the violin to calm his nerves, but also sometimes reads an elegant edition of Plato’s dangerously exciting “Phaedrus.” ‘The Young Desire It,’ by Kenneth Mackenzie

“Tremors of domestic social unrest and war in Algeria can be discerned hovering outside the somber, elegant frames,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in 2009. DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z

The Japan Wing’s permanent fixtures, too, make for elegant counterpoints as when an 18th-century Buddhist vestment is flanked by a pair of ancient wooden Buddhas. ‘Kimono Style’: A Beautiful Painting You Can Wear 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

As the noble prince Tamino, Ben Bliss added a little schmaltz to his elegant tenor to put across the romance of his first aria for the young crowd. Review: ‘The Magic Flute’ Directs Its Whimsy Toward the Younger Set 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

Just check out the elegant, savage soiree taking place at the Pershing Square Signature Center, where “Edward Albee’s The Lady From Dubuque” opened on Monday night in a scintillating revival. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z

It’s a simple, but elegant, demonstration of how this exact moment repeats as an ephemeral marker of time. Grand Central Station, zeppelin docking station 2013-05-27T19:00:00Z

The first elegant restaurant in America, Delmonico’s, was founded in New York in 1830 with a French chef, Charles Ranhofer, whose food was considered an exemplar of French tastes and standards. The Rise and Fall of French cuisine 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

They have an elegant spout, a collar to catch any drips and a textured etched finish for the stopper to prevent leaking. A Cruet for Dressing or Syrup 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Few musical-theatre soliloquies are as elegant as “On the Steps of the Palace,” Cinderella’s deconstruction of the moment she decides to leave behind the shoe: Why “Into the Woods” Matters 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Of course, elegant black is always a red carpet classic, and was the Emmys choice of Susan Sarandon and Judith Light. Diverse shapes, sizes, colors dominate Emmys red carpet 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

A quiet backyard area features an outdoor fire pit, while the back room contains a long, elegant chow table where wine and cheese are served nightly. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Inn at the Presidio in San Francisco 2012-06-29T15:27:53Z

Nelson Freire, an elegant player who performs too infrequently in New York, is the soloist in the Beethoven. The Week Ahead: Aug. 14 ? 20 2011-08-11T15:36:07Z

Ms. Greene is elegant and delivers refreshingly cheerful propaganda, including the hilarious “Comrade’s Lament,” about falling out of love with Stalin. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z

“I usually stuck to these crop tops and elegant A-line skirts or form-fitting dresses that covered up my body,” she said. It’s Always Fishnets Season Somewhere 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

But this past Monday, Ms. Wallis, the 9-year-old star of “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” was in the private dining room of an elegant Upper East Side restaurant, twirling around in her glittery black-bow flats. The Carpetbagger: The Awards Season Starts for Movies 2012-11-28T23:24:27Z

On it goes, with the eye mesmerized by the cascade of gazelle puppets and the heart arrested by the elegant lionesses, whether they are on the prowl or mourning the death of their king. ‘The Lion King,’ exuberant as ever, takes pride of place at the Kennedy Center

You couldn't meet a more elegant, effortlessly well-mannered novelist than Kinsella. Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent ? and also ditzy and klutzy' 2012-02-12T20:00:11Z

At her jewel-box restaurant with luxurious décor and food that suggest an earlier, perhaps more elegant era, Angie Mar insists on black tie for the evening. El Pingüino, Focusing on Seafood in Greenpoint, Opens 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

The auction sequence allows the women to get dressed up in fabulous clothes and elegant jewelry, which double as communication devices, natch. "The 355" delivers all the glammed-up action you want from a badass women spy flick 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

It was a classic elegant ensemble, and the apple-size shoulder tattoo just didn’t work. Field Notes: How Brides Are Choosing to Hide Their Tattoos 2012-12-14T01:35:34Z

After the troupe’s artistic director, Diana Byer, described the function of tape on the stage floor, five “dancing examples,” charming and elegant children from the company’s school, hit their marks with enthusiasm and aplomb. ‘Cinderella,’ Streamlined, by New York Theater Ballet 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Vardai’s trills unfolded with elegant grace in his soulful rendition of the Allemande, and the Courante flowed with a joyous energy. Istvan Vardai Plays Bach at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Anthony McGill, the Philharmonic’s extraordinary principal clarinetist, was the soloist in an elegant account of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. Review: The New York Philharmonic Pays Tribute to Orlando 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

She then thanked her publishers for striking the "elegant balance between making art and making money". Man Booker gets youngest winner 2013-10-15T21:47:16Z

Riddle’s arrangements — classical and cinematic with elegant, lacy musical designs floated over a strong, swinging foundation — were blurred along with the vocals. Music Review: Ella Fitzgerald?s Gershwin, by Patti Austin and New York Pops 2012-03-19T21:52:02Z

You’d be surprised how often I hear this from women who are not particularly sparkling or elegant. 2010-01-29T05:32:00Z

And now, more than 30 years on, it still offers an elegant construct with a juicy star role, even if Mr Levin's endlessly self-referential tone begins to pall after a while. Review 2010-09-08T00:46:00Z

But who knows, really, how Payne acquired her elegant deportment or her fascination with diamonds. Diamond Doris, the Bourbon King and Other Stars of True Crime 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

A little over-extended, perhaps, and weighed down a little by theatrical origins, but a tremendously elegant piece of fun. Potiche: A French farce with feeling 2010-09-05T22:25:00Z

Chipperfield is known for his transformations of historic buildings like museums into elegant, modern spaces. David Chipperfield Wins Pritzker Prize 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

Is it the elegant object made for sale or presentation, exchanged among and preserved by elites? Critic’s notebook: In New York, the Met looks at African art with new eyes 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Of Mr. Goffin’s strengths, DeCurtis added, “His lyrics are both elegant and plainspoken, moving without succumbing to sentimentality. He set a standard for literacy without ever being a show-off about it.” Gerry Goffin, lyricist who co-wrote seminal ’60s hits, dies at 75

I barely recognise the radiant, elegant woman I see in the mirror. Everything but the groom: Japan’s solo weddings 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Proust, we are told, dressed with care but was not really elegant. In the Book ‘The Killer Detail,’ Considering the Essence of Chic 2013-12-06T23:33:21Z

With their crystalline mosaics and thin, pure light, these humbly elegant basilicas conjure the time when a strange, fervent, unyielding new cult rose from the ashes of empire. Rome, Sacred Ground for Nearly 3,000 Years, and Counting 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Upstairs was all elegant blond wood, but downstairs reeked of a cheap rec-room, with pizza, doughnuts and tater tots competing for airspace. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

This is a complex but legible, lovable piece; a funky yet elegant ritual; thrilling and taut, if also fundamentally unhurried and unpressured. Review: A Concerto Makes Two Soloists a Many-Tentacled Creature 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

The least aggressive interpretations — Mr. Stritch’s elegant, wistful performances of “It Amazes Me” and “Some Kind of Music,” for instance — came as a needed balm amid the general brassiness of much of the rest. | 'The Best Is Yet to Come': Brassy and Bawdy, With Fingers Snapping 2011-05-26T22:00:14Z

Linda really knows how to use her body to communicate in an elegant way, never cheap and tawdry. George Michael’s Freedom Video: An Oral History 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Some writers dress the truth in a kind of elegant language, so it doesn’t seem quite so blatant, so harsh, so raw. Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People 2012-06-07T04:23:10Z

My own less elegant reply hasn't been published yet but in it, I describe a bit of the important role played in B's cultural by CU. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

There’s some showing off here, but the combination of elegant food in a relaxed setting will win you over. Bites: Restaurant Review: Upstairs at the Ten Bells in London 2012-03-30T18:21:43Z

Three figures in an architectural space are visible through open windows: a woman at the center with a lotus in hand is flanked by two ladies-in-waiting in elegant poses. SAM’s ‘Peacock in the Desert’ opens the doors of our perception to the marvelous 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Photographs of Korea’s most elegant temples, palaces and government buildings are on view here alongside artifacts from the monuments, old maps and high-tech animations that show their internal structures. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Inside, a stately Renaissance-style room held a table set for dinner with flickering candles and elegant dishware and cutlery. A week-long, 80-mile walking tour of picturesque Brittany is a step back in time 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

“Davies is a wild and surprising thinker who also happens to be an elegant writer.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Indeed, there was no rough edge or careless note throughout his graceful performance, his pearly sound and nuanced phrasing a perfect complement to Mr. Gerhaher’s elegant singing. Review: Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ With Christian Gerhaher 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

But people wanted an elegant structure, so they built it narrow, just two lanes wide. Books of The Times: ‘To Forgive Design,’ by Henry Petroski 2012-07-12T21:35:58Z

The crust varies, too, and can be a sturdy short crust, a yeasted bread or pizza dough, or an elegant, buttery puff pastry, either homemade or store-bought. You Can Have This Rich Easter Pie Any Time of Year 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Early on, “The Wire” laid out its thematic groundwork with a simple, elegant analogy: the game of chess as a model of “the game” writ large. ‘The Wire’ in Five Scenes 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

The nicer way of saying the same thing, and making it a compliment, is to call the person elegant. Audrey Hepburn: an iconic problem 2011-01-20T21:30:02Z

On one security gate, Banksy sprayed “This is my New York accent” in gangsta-style lettering; beneath it, in elegant print, “normally I write like this.” Making Sense of the Banksy Backlash 2013-10-16T18:30:55Z

You may wonder why, for this is a delightful, elegant, melodious, neoclassical suite drawn from a longer one-act theater piece that was patched together in 1919 from scraps of earlier Fauré works. Filling the Hollywood Bowl with the 'Musique de France' 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in August that the film, “at first glance a modest, ragged slice of contemporary life, turns out to be a remarkably subtle, even elegant movie.” DVDs: Sinister Doings in Losey?s ?These Are the Damned? 2010-04-04T03:00:00Z

That gained foundation in an elegant, emotionally resonant processional. Perspective | America yearns for an era of good feeling. The inaugural ceremony launched one. 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

This gorgeous premier cru rosé champagne bursts with strawberry and red currant flavors, backed by firm acidity and an elegant finish. 3 small-house champagnes you’ll want to have on hand 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Her preserved body lay in an elegant coffin. In Indonesia, Many Islands and Many Faces 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

The 85-year-old designer, known for his simple elegant outfits, presented an array of tulle dresses that were also light and airy. Armani sees airy, light spring for Emporio line at Milan show 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Renting an Airbnb or a room in a Greek-owned hotel helps the economy, and mine was an elegant stone house, with a swimming pool and a beach down the hill. On Samos, Aesop’s Fabled Isle, a Mix of Greeks, Migrants and Tourists 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

The choir also brought familiar Cuban songs, like “Son de La Loma,” as well as an elegant close-harmony version of “Unforgettable” and a Ping-Ponging arrangement of “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho.” Music Review: Cuban Visitors Share Sounds and Moves of Their Roots 2011-06-05T22:07:40Z

Pippa's flats are sensible, and the neutral color is elegant and versatile, two frugal fashion musts. Sis's own flair 2011-05-12T00:48:04Z

Considering Brioni’s unbeatable global reputation for menswear, you might expect the design team to use the same building blocks rather than create elegant dresses with flaring sleeves and wrapping tailoring up in fluffy Mongolian lamb. Special Report: The Code: Maturity, Equality, Fraternity 2010-02-28T18:30:00Z

Posted outside Cave Creek Ranch in the Chiricahua Mountains, about 150 miles southeast of Tucson, a schedule of the expected arrival dates of migrating and seasonal birds anticipated the elegant trogon on April 6. A Birding Adventure in Arizona’s ‘Sky Islands’ 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

Because there was no insulation, he removed the asphalt shingle roof — which was not so beautiful — added rigid foam insulation and covered it with an elegant gray powder-coated steel roof. In the Desert With Jackrabbits and Clint Eastwood 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

In this showstopper from Rossini’s elegant comic opera “Le Comte Ory,” Oropesa’s classy singing sneaks subtle flecks of color into fiendish runs taken at the speed of light. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

As Peele told "Rolling Stone" magazine in January, the episode possessed "terrifying, beautiful, really elegant storytelling" and inspired him to make this movie because "it opens up a world. It opens up your imagination." "Us" is a good "Twilight Zone" adaptation, but it's not as good as Jordan Peele's "Get Out." 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

The opening scene of Patrick deWitt’s “French Exit” is so perfectly staged that a curtain seems to rise on his elegant creation. Review | ‘French Exit’ gives a witty look at a rarefied world 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

This is the place to people-watch, gaze up at the elegant architecture above the storefronts, and enjoy the talented buskers that bring the boulevard to life. Glasgow surprises with art, design and culture 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

"It's on this gorgeous cube. It's super minimalist, like a glass of water with a pretty piece of ice. This is too elegant to put a salt rim on it." Gracias Madre offers a taste of the margarita’s past and future 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

“And I’m really bad at being elegant and graceful and doing this sort of thing.” The Making of Fashion?s Latest ?It? Girl 2010-12-01T08:10:00Z

The snowflakes turn and watch him, as they should: Billy Smith, in the Drosselmeier role, has a lifted, elegant stride, touched with drama. What the Rockettes and ‘The Hard Nut’ teach us about the meaning of life 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

This twist on the elegant classic cocktail introduces an earthy wine syrup and a trio of citrus fruit for a drink that will pair well with a classic roast turkey or cornbread stuffing. 21 best Thanksgiving cocktail recipes to toast the roast 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

What we said: “A rather lovely poetic portrait of male friendship, cinephilic obsession and elegant dignity.” The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

And in another, quieter, direction that fulfills all our needs, there is Blue Hill, Dan Barber’s elegant and marvelous American restaurant off Washington Square Park. Hey, Mr. Critic: Diners? Questions on the Reviewer?s Plate 2011-02-24T23:01:14Z

His cheekbones are chiselled, his brown eyes sharp, his style of dress elegant. How actor Cliff Curtis avoids playing 'repetitive stereotypes' 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Again, Feyder divides the action between scenes staged on the fly on Parisian streets and Meerson’s impossibly elegant interiors, but this time neither world is privileged. Video: ‘French Masterworks: Russian Émigrés in Paris 1923-1928’ 2013-06-07T20:56:00Z

As a visitor clicks through, it’s easy to become nostalgic for the gilded picture palaces of yore: those grand, stoic-looking fixtures, elegant and transporting. Movie Theaters Documented on Cinema Treasures Site 2011-08-27T03:43:02Z

Its illusions and elegant frauds let Brown masquerade as a mind reader. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Unlikely as it seems, the music that emerges from this contraption is strangely haunting – antique and jangly, yet at the same time fresh, elegant and surprising. Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project – review 2013-02-10T00:05:08Z

“It’s that contrast between the beautiful and elegant fashion with the everyday task of washing clothes,” Ms. Nagle said. The Laundromat Is Hot! 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

Once venerated for its strutting peacocks and elegant statues and corridors lined with palm trees, Villa Sciarra has fallen into ruin. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

In each painting, the setting is surreal but the figure’s stance is coolly elegant; his eyes, pupil-less white orbs, suggest an inner reverie. An Artist Who Doesn’t Want to Feed Western Fantasies About Africa 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

For all its speed and metric complication, it’s highly elegant. Sattriya, Kathak and Bharatanatyam Dance at Drive East 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

“Even if I hope not to get there, it is better to consider aesthetic, design and elegant alternatives that guarantee the rules of social distancing.” French restaurant tests clear plastic domes that hang over each individual diner 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Take in the gorgeous design over a drink in the elegant lobby, or after a treatment at the Willow Stream spa. Top 10 hotels in Vancouver 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

An old lever-arch file, with the word “Kinder” on the spine, written in my grandfather’s elegant cursive. 'She was like a second mother': the German woman who saved our Jewish family history 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

The National Youth Choir of Scotland was wonderful, capable of gauzy delicacy and ringing fortes; the baritone Ashley Riches elegant in his brief moment in the spotlight. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

For dessert, a dacquoise cake filled with raspberry cream floated off the fork, a dainty ending to an elegant meal. Bites : Restaurant Report: La Table d’Aki in Paris 2012-11-28T17:26:54Z

The party at their elegant estate is Walter White’s Rosebud moment, during which his deep motivating secret is disclosed. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z

I’m not going to use an elegant lobby or a heated pool or a concierge, so why should I pay for them? 10 Travel Writers, 10 Favorite Hotels 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

“I wanted an elegant space where we would feel comfortable meeting with private clients and buyers, but it also had to be an inspiring place for me to make jewelry.” Yael Sonia's Luxe New York Showroom 2014-02-20T05:00:00Z

If he’d been a less idiosyncratic or elegant singer, his voice might have made his work feel maudlin or showy. The Weird and Vast and Periodically Devastating Music of Scott Walker 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Displaying 80 people in a human zoo in Oslo's most elegant park, two artists hope their "Congo Village" display will help erase what they say is Norwegian's collective amnesia about racism. Human zoo hopes to challenge Norway's image on racism 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

It is basic — almost primal in the way it satisfies — and yet elegant. Strawberries on top and bottom, with Italy’s underrated custard in between 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The elegant Israeli pianist David Greilsammer excels at juxtaposing old and new music to find common ground between pieces written centuries apart. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z

Not a pastry but an elegant mushroom terrine, with buttery, tender stems of king trumpets folded and folded, layer after layer. The Best Restaurant Dishes of 2014 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

And the elegant Quatuor Ébène will play Beethoven downstairs at the same time, a tribute to Carnegie’s unmatched range and quality. Mitsuko Uchida at Carnegie Hall Is a Start to a Big Week 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

The elegant Mason flashes a shark’s grin in the early scenes of the 1954 picture: He’s sleek and dangerous, a pinnacle of old Hollywood glamour just starting to go to seed. Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The winners “tend to be more demure, they tend to be more classically elegant,” said Lee. Miss World is the biggest beauty pageant you’ve never heard of. What’s it doing in Washington? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

“In a Better World,” directed by the Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier and written by Anders Thomas Jensen, is an elegant, somber scourge for the guilty conscience of the affluent, liberal West. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z

Her desserts are an elegant counterpoint to a casual dinner. A Chicago Restaurant Brings Fresh California Cuisine to the Midwest 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

There are majestic sets by Charles Edwards and elegant costumes by Brigitte Reiffenstuel as the action moves from a St. Petersburg palace to a Parisian salon to the Swiss Alps. Met Opera Takes On ‘Fedora,’ Neglected Tale of Murder and Love 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

But now we get episode 3, the season’s most sobering installment, and so its most elegant in its handling of the war. Downton Abbey Watch: Missing In Action 2012-01-23T14:00:44Z

Create an elegant, cozy and chic space that sparkles — and sparks conversation — by incorporating metallic accents and natural gemstones into your decor, says Abbe Fenimore, who manages the Dallas-based interior design company Studio Ten 25. Accent pieces to add sparkle to your home for New Year’s Eve — and beyond 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

The awards ceremony May 6 at the Folger Shakespeare Library will be the year’s most elegant and enjoyable literary event. The PEN/Faulkner finalists: A sign of new diversity in books? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

This will be an evening wedding at an elegant hotel. Q&A: The Well-Mannered Wedding 2011-03-18T19:53:29Z

The movie required the actress to acquire instant expertise doing elephant acrobatics while wearing sequined leotards and elegant gowns. Reese Witherspoon riding high in circus drama 2011-04-19T19:31:45Z

His elegant book seems like a ruthless and skeptical analysis of something Paul Bowles wrote in “The Sheltering Sky,” his famous novel about Morocco. Books of The Times: ‘The Forgiven,’ by Lawrence Osborne 2012-09-25T21:17:10Z

The masterful closing sequence, like an elegant short story in itself, leaves the impression that Bobby will never find one, either. Five Easy Pieces at 50: a troubling yet thrilling arrival of a new leading man 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

Brian Morton, a gifted, compassionate novelist, has, over the course of five elegant novels, explored the moral complexity inherent in storytelling. A Son Looks Back on Life With an Irascible and Beloved Mother 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

Second, it was an elegant full stop; bringing the story full circle and sending it off in the most touching manner possible. Die Hard 6: why Bruce Willis is taking tips from Rocky Balboa 2013-05-03T15:40:25Z

She commissioned an elegant apartment from a young Viennese architect, Ernst Plischke, in which to live in Vienna and – crucially – in which to show her work. Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter by Emmanuel Cooper 2012-05-25T21:54:01Z

Her dish looks elegant and delicious — and all the judges love it. I can hear Julia Child's voice in my head again after six weeks of "The Julia Child Challenge" 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of this novel is its elegant manipulation of time. J. Courtney Sullivan’s ‘Saints for All Occasions’ is this year’s best book about family 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

“All we like sheep” was sung with elegant legato and ended in stark loveliness, but it had little excitement. Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra Bring ‘Messiah’ to Carnegie 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

He drew on plywood with an elegant, sinuous line, switching to paper in the early 1990s. Thornton Dial, Outsider Artist Whose Work Told of Black Life, Dies at 87 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

There was a lot of the designer’s heritage, including the college student look of duffle coat or boyish patterned sweaters, but the overall effect was of elegant modernity. Special Report: Fashion: Hats Off to Easy Elegance 2011-01-24T18:21:28Z

A Head Start on “Carol” After finishing the “mad, wild, in-your-face looks” of “Cinderella,” Ms. Powell turned to the “quiet, confident, elegant looks” of “Carol.” Two Films, One Designer: The Costumes of ‘Carol’ and ‘Cinderella’ 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

The main reading room is a little overstuffed with stacks, obscuring the grand, handsome space that Christoff has created and filled with elegant, bespoke furniture. Three Sunny New Libraries Are Neighborhood Lifelines 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

The more lavish dinner option is the Dopolavoro, housed in its own elegant building. On a Lush Island, the Splendor of Venice but Not the Crowds 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Rust was the catalyst for Mr. Schultz’s most enduring design: an elegant, clean-lined outdoor chaise made from plastic mesh, aluminum tubes and a pair of wheels. Richard Schultz, Designer Who Made the Outdoors Modern, Dies at 95 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

The starting point for elegant ginger coats, double-breasted suits and graphic knits was the cinéaste Jacques Tati and his Mr. Hulot character of the 1950s. 2010-01-25T15:07:00Z

Like its predecessor, the deceptively elegant “All the Little Lights,” this album — a blend of Greenwich Village folk, soft-rock and Celtic music undertones — is almost comically plain-spoken and direct, like folk caricature. Jack White’s ‘Lazaretto,’ About Controlling and Letting Go 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

The elegant palace hosts ambitious temporary exhibits, such as a recent Ai Weiwei installation that barricaded the palace windows with thousands of refugees’ life vests salvaged from the Greek island of Lesbos. 36 Hours in Copenhagen 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Released last month, it’s M83 at its best — vibrant, elegant and unpredictable. Music Review: M83 Plays Webster Hall - Review 2011-11-23T23:28:11Z

Simple yet elegant, these sweet and salty confections are sure to impress your guests at a party. Quick & Easy Desserts 2010-09-22T23:33:00Z

The discreet dining room, an elegant padded space in gray and beige, has no windows, ensuring that no prying paparazzi or jealous spouses can peer inside. 36 Hours in Cannes, France 2013-04-18T20:53:11Z

The surface is often domestic but her strength is that of a magical, passionate novelist whose prose is often laced with the surreal strokes of a most elegant pen. Profile: Wang Anyi 2011-03-30T11:57:46Z

Both performances were finely detailed, with the woodwind very elegant in the overture, and the strings supremely rich and eloquent in the symphony. Czech Philharmonic/Gardiner 2010-08-30T10:51:00Z

Deep in the Casbah and high on the slopes of Vieille Montagne, you find these people, these elegant, exotic plants who fill their days with lunch parties and gossip. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z

After you visit the drone-patrolled Drill Hall, you are ushered into the elegant wood-paneled lobby space at the front of the armory where, upon entering, you are photographed. Perspective | Ai Weiwei succumbs to the tyranny of fun 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Indeed you could spend much time praising the elegant set, wallpapered in pages of fairybook text, panels opening and shutting as the action demands and all echoing the opera's mood of 18th-century pastiche. Cendrillon; Rinaldo ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:30Z

"The concept is more of a designer approach to denim," says Kaeding, who designs, washes and produces the line in Los Angeles and aims to keep the aesthetic elegant, sleek and, of course, comfortable. New shades of blue 2011-08-17T16:45:04Z

The drink was elegant and stealthily boozy — a quiet symphony of botanical gin, prickly fizz and bright lemon softened with simple syrup. The unfailing elegance of a French 75 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

Yet the six wines we tasted for the exploration, all cabernet-based, were gorgeous, evocative, complex and elegant, not at all what one might have predicted going by the general depictions of a mediocre year. How to Think About Wine Vintages 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Francisco Costa is a visionary talent known for elegant and minimalist designs that are coveted around the world. Calvin Klein's Costa stirring more attention 2012-05-16T20:36:09Z

His elegant lines, to-die-for feet and aristocratic ease were not exactly the equipment of a peasant. American Ballet Theater Performs ‘Giselle’ 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Wrists, hands, shoulders and gestures are used with elegant flamboyance. Dance Review: An American and a Dutchman, Both With Worldly Cool 2010-07-22T22:22:00Z

And we took most of our meals buffet-style in the large, elegant dining room on the second floor. In Italy, immersive travel program combines sightseeing and conserving frescoes 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

I have little doubt that there are many ways of doing this, and I strongly suspect mine is not the most elegant. Six degrees of Spider-Man 2012-06-30T22:00:00Z

A Finnish pan with a modern and elegant swoop of plastic. These dustpans are prettier than any cleaning tool deserves to be 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

He did this with elegant vengeance favoring formal power over narrative while stinting neither on his subjects’ dignity, nor on the harsh realities that many faced. The Photographer Who Found His Power in Shades of Gray 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

They all look elegant in the garden or in arrangements. The Sweetest Lily 2010-05-19T18:12:00Z

The use of doubling calls to mind more elegant films by David Lynch. In ‘The Moment,’ Doubts About a Character’s Sanity 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

It was not elegant, but it was the best I could do. Modern Love: Modern Love - Building Christmas on Presence, Not Presents 2012-12-20T17:50:57Z

He looked so elegant and ethereal, it sparked an idea. Libi Pedder's best photograph 2012-07-18T17:34:12Z

Since then he’s been far less of an M.C. than a crooner, focusing on elegant interpretations of the American songbook. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Bobby Kennedy for President’ and ‘Vice’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Even many of those “who claim sympathy with BLM’s purpose have used the civil rights movement to decry their tactics,” Theoharis writes in her elegant introduction, her rage kept at a controlled simmer. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

So we looked back and we started elegant, and it just turned into a massive rave party toward the end. Adam Selman finds a good fit designing costumes for Rihanna, Sufjan Stevens 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

It's more of an elegant cinematic tone poem than a , and it's both affecting and limited. His & Hers ? review 2011-03-23T00:05:00Z

When he returned to the District in 1981, his poetry was stronger, sharper, simultaneously more elegant and more visceral. A poet who spoke to the black gay experience, and a quest to make him heard

Reducing a wardrobe down to a few painfully elegant cashmere-cotton blend tops is only really possible if you can put down at least $1,000 in one go for the creation of your “capsule wardrobe”. Minimalism: another boring product wealthy people can buy 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

My first taste is liquid and lovely: sherry, rye and Grand Marnier fuel the elegant “Up-To-Date” cocktail. Review | Reveler’s Hour is the relaxed wine-and-pasta sibling we needed from the Tail Up Goat team 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

It's casual, yes, with the bar, lounge, dining room and kitchen flowing into one long, open space; but elegant, too, with espresso-dark mahogany trim, slate-blue draperies and upholstered banquettes. Lecosho provides a welcome addition to the downtown dining scene 2011-01-13T21:06:05Z

Performed in a Fifth Avenue townhouse, this is immersive theater in the warm guise of an elegant party — with wine, spirits and a sit-down dinner. The Broadway Shows to See Now 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Its dancers are by turns elegant sophisticates, four-legged animals with paws and impersonal angels, riding three different scores. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-15T22:27:24Z

The writing, he added, “is clever, subtle, elegant.” Harold Shapero, 93, American Neo-Classical Composer, Dies 2013-05-22T03:58:50Z

It sounded more elegant than “I didn’t find a correct translation of my name on the internet.” Two Tattoos Gone Wrong 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most elegant and least ostentatious of virtuosos, Mr. Hamelin produces prodigies of sound seemingly without effort or concern. Music Review: Marc-André Hamelin Blazed Through His Recital 2013-07-26T19:44:13Z

The ad pictured two models, one in an elegant gown and the other in a frilly white smock and cap, standing before a table groaning with fare straight from Mrs. Bridges’s kitchen. Friday File 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Wiggan-Freund, 34, says she doesn’t know if she has a specific style — she pulls from many, including ballet, which is apparent in her effortless, elegant line. Michelle Dorrance’s Four Musketeers of Tap 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

An elegant allegory, “Walk Unafraid” espouses the idea of living a fearless life, even if this path is different: “They claim to walk unafraid, I’ll be clumsy instead.” R.E.M.’s 10 best songs after Bill Berry: Daring, brilliant, underappreciated 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z

There’s a staleness to these themes that’s only partially camouflaged by Barnes’s elegant style, the way an expensive cologne might distract us, for a time, from the mustiness of a well-appointed sitting room. Review | If Flaubert reimagined ‘Cougar Town,’ this is the novel we might get 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Later, as we walk through one of Chiado’s several small, elegant squares, I say how lovely Lisbon is. How I Fell for Lisbon 2012-05-25T20:23:37Z

I actually got a few questions like, "Oh, is it too elegant?" Netflix's stunning new Paralympics doc "Rising Phoenix" erases stigma through visual elegance 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

You went because Karen Waltuck, the chef’s wife and partner, and her ballet corps of elegant, mildly bohemian servers knew how to make you comfortable even if grand restaurants like Chanterelle weren’t usually your thing. Restaurant Review: Élan in the Flatiron District 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

A small square package, bound by an elegant white ribbon, greeted the 300 diners who showed up last weekend for the James Beard Foundation’s annual Super Sunday at Chelsea Market. Mussels and Purell at the James Beard Dinner 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Hussein Chalayan , dressed as a posh French waiter serving Champagne to his elegant models, was a sign that the designer was bringing out the witty and sophisticated side of his sometimes-complex collections. Fashion Review: Bill Gaytten at Dior Shows a Light Touch 2011-09-30T18:29:29Z

The pedestrian and bicycle thoroughfare will connect the vibrant Nine Elms district on the south bank to the elegant neighborhood of Pimlico. See the Four Designs Shortlisted for London’s Latest Pedestrian Bridge 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Obama’s is magnificent for the dress and elegant, but entirely misses the mark facially for me. Obama Portraits ‘Push Us to Think More,’ Readers Say 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

And while this song is far more elegant and sure-footed than most paranoia anthems about haters, it springs from the same insulted source. Perspective | To find out how stars are really born, you need to go to an Ashley McBryde concert 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

The problem was epitomized by the Serena of Marquita Lister, an elegant singer who delivered a pretty, polite “My Man’s Gone Now.” Music Review: ?Porgy and Bess? at Tanglewood Festival - Review 2011-08-28T21:33:46Z

The king bed was comfortable, dressed with soft white sheets and plenty of down pillows, and the crystal goblets by the bedside made staying hydrated an elegant exercise. Elegantly Remade, a Washington Hotel Looks Beyond a Scandalous Past 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

As promised, Hart stepped before the curtain around 8:45 p.m. — openings were later in that era — and addressed the audience with his famous elegant charm. At First Performance of ‘My Fair Lady,’ the Drama Was Offstage 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

For more than five decades, A-listers have flocked to this annual black-tie soiree, one of the most elegant social events of the year. How Washington’s power brokers are adapting to the New Normal — and that includes how they party and raise money 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

He showed evening gowns along with jacket and trouser sets, and elegant coats and jackets. Prabal Gurung celebrates the churning creative energy of NYC 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

She was so elegant and so strong, and seemed to be having a great time. The baby-cursing Maleficent gets to show a softer, less-wicked side 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

It’s hidden behind An Store clothing boutique, which leads to Tadioto’s sushi counter in the stone courtyard and then to the elegant bar in the back. 36 Hours in Hoi An 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

"In the Name of Honor" was nothing but accommodation, which is a more elegant way to say "pandering." How to negotiate moving forward from "The Book of Boba Fett" ... like a Godfather 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

“I’m biased, but it’s such an elegant fair,” he said. TEFAF New York, a ‘Little Jewel Box’ of a Fair, Carves Out Its Own Niche 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

His eclectic works also differ from one another, but they all seem to express a particular, peculiar sensibility: elegant, eccentric, serious, wry, fascinated by contradictions, susceptible to beauty but skeptical, too. Dance Review: Douglas Dunn’s Autobiographical ‘Aubade’ 2014-01-28T22:32:46Z

He quickly developed a following - and critical praise - for his elegant, clean line; his light, buoyant jumps; his princely demeanor. From South Dakota to the Bolshoi, a dancer's leap 2011-11-03T11:26:09Z

The plan reads like a book, with elegant typesetting and slick graphics. On Health Care, Mitt Romney's Pragmatic Plan Plays it Safe 2011-09-07T12:23:34Z

She lamented, for example, that Macy’s now inhabited the old Marshall Field & Company building, with its elegant clocks exterior clocks, once depicted Norman Rockwell portrayed on The Saturday Evening Post. A $100 Weekend in Chicago 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

This wine is elegant and quick on its feet. Perspective | Three Aussies and two natural French wines to try 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

What I got to do in “English,” it was so elegant, and I felt like I so understood this not belonging, or the complication of feeling closer to something that you’re not necessarily born into. Marjan Neshat on Her ‘Kind of Miraculous Season’ Onstage 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

“I wanted something elegant and classic while also being fun and festive.” Real Wedding Day Looks 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

The hotel’s lobby is elegant but not grand. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: The Peninsula Shanghai 2010-10-01T14:14:00Z

By turns awkward and elegant, the film is further evidence of a directing career that could have been. Don’t Cry, Resist! Movies From a Female Revolution 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Lively's hair with its deep side part always manages to look lovely and elegant. Stars are flipping for the latest style in hair 2011-06-20T17:33:29Z

Notable for its elegant style and dramatic staging and lighting effects, the Astaire special — the first TV program preserved on color videotape — won nine Emmy Awards. Bud Yorkin, innovative TV producer and director, dies at 89 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

You could put the sultanas and prunes into an elegant glass and serve them with a spoonful of vanilla-scented whipped cream and a tiny silver spoon. Nigel Slater: ‘I love the crackle of winter’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z

A slab of dark chocolate terrine with the texture of fudge is made elegant with vivid green grace notes of Sicilian pistachios and mint crusted in sugar. Fiola Mare brings the Adriatic to Georgetown

In these elegant, vibrant performances, Mr. Andsnes intriguingly reveals the magisterial qualities of the earlier work and the classical directness of the later one. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, the Bad Plus, Fred Astaire and More 2014-04-02T16:00:38Z

With well-whipped egg whites, you can conquer the world — or at least this recipe for Swiss meringue, an elegant alternative to regular buttercream or whipped cream. How to whip egg whites for lovely, luscious peaks 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

That sophistication is easy to hear on "Caracal," as in one still-untitled track with a handsome vocal by Howard and an elegant ballad that rides a crawling R&B groove. Disclosure looks beyond EDM for 'Caracal': 'We've got a lot more to give' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Some dishes seem just as suited for Ripple’s menu, such as an elegant sunchoke soup, or Meek-Bradley’s frisee salad with pig ear, both hits. Roofers Union review: ‘Top Chef’ puts the spotlight on Marjorie Meek-Bradley 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

In her early years on the throne, in her 20s and 30s, the young queen was known to wear practical but elegant clothes. Queen Elizabeth, fashion icon? Yes. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

But I can think of more elegant ways of getting these points across. Empowerment, with a tail and ears 2011-09-19T18:20:00Z

Dries Van Noten ’s show Wednesday was a magnificent sweep of imagination and invention compressed into elegant, modern clothes. Special Report: Fashion: A Photo Gallery to Wear from Dries Van Noten 2011-09-28T17:44:01Z

He was at least forty, but he had the narrow frame and form of an elegant boy. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

As the designer put it, referring to his long career of elegant subversion: “Always rock ’n’ roll.” Special Report: Fashion: Giving a Rebel Yell 2010-10-03T17:03:00Z

I'm not a psychologist, I'm just a fashion designer," says Banana Republic creative director Simon Kneen, "but the air of fashion is a little more elegant right now. What's shaking fashion? An adult-quake 2012-11-15T18:24:09Z

“It was all very elegant. There was an extravagance to it that felt appropriate for the show.” ‘Empire,’ the Meteor That Never Fell to Earth 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

During the past decade, Lloyd has been moving steadily toward elegant and deep simplicity, evident in his recent revival of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal.” Review: James McAvoy’s Rapping Cyrano Dazzles With Words 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

That image is the perfect emblem for this elegant, easygoing home, which is all about bringing people together. A Magical Retreat in the Hamptons by Sawyer | Berson 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Recorded in 1975, the 34-year-old Mason is lean, linear and elegant, a foxy synthesis of form and function – and her intelligence, as she moves and responds to the music, is equally sharp. MoveTube: A foxy farewell to the Royal Ballet's Monica Mason 2012-07-18T13:36:40Z

It is in the shape of a hand with long, elegant fingers clenching what appears to be a pomegranate. Postcard From My Past: Crossing Into Syria 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Double Coffee Tiramisù For an easy and elegant fruit presentation, drizzle this rich, make-ahead sauce over fresh fruit in your favorite glassware.  Holiday Brunch 2010-12-06T16:06:00Z

The Times’s Harold C. Schonberg noted that it was “full of elegant and striking photography,” but he also called it “an intolerably artsy, artificial film.” ArtsBeat: Another Terrence Malick Film So Soon? 2011-05-16T17:08:11Z

So he set about opening up rooms and stripping down layers, which in turn revealed an elegant, arched window; scenic mural paintings; even a lion sculpture. T Magazine: The Shape Shifter 2014-03-06T21:30:52Z

An elegant building in a parkland was joined at the hip in the 1960s to a startlingly brutal concrete extension. Museums vie for the Art Fund prize ? but who deserves to win? 2010-05-14T13:32:00Z

Expect elegant interiors, from the 52 rooms to the velvet-draped cocktail bar and rooftop conservatory, all located steps from the Royal Danish Theater. 36 Hours in Copenhagen 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The elegant film, which actually premiered overseas four years ago, is composed of 21 self-contained short performance pieces, incorporating both the traditional and more youth-oriented fusion flamenco styles. 'Flamenco, Flamenco' another dazzling Carlos Saura tribute to dance 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Sumptuously orchestrated, its elegant arrangements blooming with strings and soprano choruses, Twelve Reasons To Die is very much the sort of record a rapper should be making in his 42nd year. Ghostface Killah: 'Everyone said Wu-Tang Clan wasn't gonna work' 2013-05-10T12:00:00Z

Her one-volume history is elegant, readable, sobering; it extends a steadying hand when a breakneck news cycle lurches from one event to another, confounding minds and churning stomachs. As the News Cycle Lurches, Jill Lepore Offers a Long, Steady View of American History 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Yet just below the elegant surface lurks a bold and inquisitive musician alert to every ingenious nuance and quirk of these elusive scores. CD Reviews: An Israeli Pianist Plays Mozart 2010-04-02T13:45:00Z

He pauses, and then describes how exactly: “through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility.” The TV Watch: Nerds Get Their Due on ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Veep’ 2014-04-04T00:00:25Z

In this elegant and sensuous music, Ms. Mutter showed off her trademark rich tone and flamboyant expressiveness. Review: Anne-Sophie Mutter Pays Tribute to Previn at Carnegie Hall 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

It sounds like it'd be great, but it wasn't elegant shoes. News roundup: Locally shot film at Sundance; chatting with Clooney and the boys; and more 2011-12-01T23:32:05Z

The whole silly, elegant setup works equally well as a metaphor for life, love, or even the process of art-making. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

His brand of ruthlessness is as perfect, uncluttered and elegant as Robin Wright’s couture wardrobe on the show. How similar to real life politics is House of Cards? 2013-07-04T02:13:44Z

Always formally clad in a three-piece suit with a stiff collared shirt and elegant shoes, he was, Fonteyn wrote in her autobiography, “diminutive, dapper and precise.” From the Music Hall to Ballet Royalty: A British Tale 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

In "Bestiaire," a cool, sometimes cruel, formally elegant nonfiction look at a Quebec safari park, there's a scene in which some people stop on an outdoor bridge next to a chimpanzee exhibition. 'Bestiaire': Meditation on captive animals both beautiful, repellent 2012-11-15T21:33:08Z

That classic is George Balanchine’s “Theme and Variations,” an elegant exercise in stamina that he made for Ballet Theater in 1947. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Grapefruit subtly flavored an elegant vanilla layer cake and its buttercream frosting, served with a mint-flecked grapefruit compote on the side. Skelly and the Bean: creativity from construction to the kitchen 2012-06-14T20:42:09Z

Murdoch’s prose is elegant, validating itself by its own certainty. In Praise of Iris Murdoch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Whatever the case, Mr. Ax played with his customary sagacity and polish while Mr. Gilbert maintained elegant balances throughout, eliciting a striking velvety softness from the strings in the central Andante. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘All-Mozart’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-06-21T21:44:31Z

“Some,” the editors note, are “refined, even elegant, others crude, formal, playful, or mock-authoritarian.” Review | The art of protest 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

“We really don’t think the containers are beautiful or elegant,” she said. ‘The best thing since the brick’ 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

On Thursday a new jewel of a museum is to be celebrated in an elegant 19th-century mansion here. In Paris, a New Museum to Celebrate Saint Laurent 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

McClanahan has used them in formal dining rooms, when something more elegant was called for, and even in bathrooms. Love your ceiling fan but hate its clunky look? Meet the ‘fandelier.’ 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

And then, at the end of this elegant passage: “Infinitely rich, infinitely beautiful. Everything was going to be all right.” Sigrid Nunez’s New Book Asks a Timely Question, Right in the Title 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jarvaise describes them as elegant abstractions in the lyrical style then known as Abstract Impressionism. Robert Therrien Gets a Solo Show at the Albright-Knox 2013-07-12T11:57:00Z

"Mrs. Obama looked chic and elegant as always on Election Night," Kors said in an email to the Associated Press. Michelle Obama picked Kors for Election Night 2012-11-07T18:19:10Z

Japanese art has long been associated with a simple and elegant portrayal of nature. A Japanese Gallery Puts a Natural Art Style Front and Center at TEFAF 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Many telling tales are told here by his sidemen, associates and Brown scholars, alongside elegant, eloquent musicological analysis. HBO's 'My Dynamite' focuses on James Brown, the performer 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

Here, the banana daiquiri, mixed with house-made banana liqueur, is an elegant revelation, not a joke. Pursuits : A Bar Sprint in Cocktail-Crazed San Francisco 2013-04-26T16:26:06Z

The series is elegant, sensitively acted and directed — and an utter snooze. Review: ‘Gypsy’ and the Problem of Well-Made Bad TV 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

She wasn’t the brashest singer, nor did she possess dazzling range—critics and fans referred to her style as “elegant whispering.” The Melancholy Pop Idol Who Haunts China 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

“Ashley” features bracing guest vocals from the elegant young R&B star Miguel, and it’s one of several lush songs on this album. New Music: Big Sean and Albert Heath and Friends Release Albums 2013-08-26T21:58:51Z

Manchester Central Library is in the midst of a £170m three-year restoration of its elegant domed and porticoed building, built in the Great Depression as a symbol of hope. Authors and poets call halt to book pulping at Manchester Central Library 2012-06-22T14:26:53Z

Monroe makes the change from guttersnipe to elegant lady seem absolutely believable. A well-spoken, well-dressed 'Pygmalion' 2011-08-25T18:19:05Z

The ending is women in elegant cages, good for a little tasteful exploitation. Ballet Preljocaj's 'Les Nuits' seduces but is problematic 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

There was Naomi Campbell in a very elegant Calvin Klein throwback to the 1970s, a kind of a Halston-revisited dress. Style icon André Leon Talley on navigating the fashion world: “My armor is my self-invention” 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

Deep and elegant, with complex flavors of dark fruits, menthol and chocolate. Aglianico in Its Own Right 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

She synthesizes the character’s contradictions with stunning clarity: the elegant mind and the blind rage; the courage and the self-destructiveness. Review | A theater festival in the bucolic countryside, but boiling underneath 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

And it’s classic American because it’s both elegant and completely unpretentious. Table for Three: The Director David O. Russell and the Designer Diane von Furstenberg Discuss the Creative Process in Film and Fashion 2014-02-07T20:13:37Z

In these pages, Joan Crawford appears in sultry black-and-white, elegant but menacing in a backless cream gown, gripping her own arm so hard with her lacquered nails that you wonder if she drew blood. Books of Style: Holiday Reading, Some Homework Required 2012-12-12T23:23:53Z

If you substitute shredded leftover turkey breast for the poached chicken in this recipe, you're minutes away from an easy, elegant dinner. 8 leftover turkey pasta recipes (because we can't eat another sandwich) 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

A reference to Queen Mary I of England, who received the nickname for her notoriously violent actions, “Bloody Mary” was simply too brash for such an elegant establishment. The perfect Bloody Mary from Bronson van Wyck and the St. Regis New York 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

She is absolutely elegant, and completely isolated — a documentarian, microphone clipped to her chest, talking to an unseen camera about the last time she hugged someone. ‘Out of Time’ Review: Once Sidelined, Now Taking Center Stage 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

“I remember the first intelligent and insightful review I got as Twain 47 years ago,” Holbrook wrote, in elegant cursive. Perspective | From Twain to Deep Throat, Hal Holbrook left an indelible mark on American entertainment 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Davies is a wild and surprising thinker who also happens to be an elegant writer — a wonderful and eminently readable combination. How the Mind-Body Connection Is Rewiring Our Politics 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

In one elegant experiment, Snow had unveiled the spectre of cholera, which had haunted him since his childhood: the cause was just plain old dirty water. Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

There’s the effortless, elegant presentation, combined with a dramatic proclamation: “I cooked an entire fish for you! On a school night!” It’s Easy. It’s Impressive. It’s Dinner. 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

In his spare, elegant new novel, “Like Family,” Paolo Giordano examines this unusual relationship in the context of one unremarkable household of three. Review: In Paolo Giordano’s ‘Like Family,’ the Nanny Departs and Cracks Emerge 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

And an elegant reconciliation of disparate pop dialects. Another country: Sam Hunt maps out Nashville’s bold new future

Throughout, elegant details nod to the surroundings, from framed photographs of the local wildlife to linens that capture the rustic appeal of classic safari outfits. A Treehouse Hotel Grows in Britain 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Pas de deux and solos, both delicate and propulsive, offer the elegant, evanescent tracery of bodies in space. Dance Review: Collaborations Bring Cascades of Motion and Emotion 2011-07-07T22:06:58Z

This all may sound complicated, but there’s an elegant simplicity to the three triangles slung from the same long wall. Architecture Review: Architectural Canopy Shines in Battery Park City 2012-06-04T22:33:59Z

When I was growing up, my elegant mother, whose closet was full of beautiful shoes, often told me, quite cheerfully, “You have to suffer for beauty.” My Story: If the Shoe Fits, Don’t Wear It Unless It’s Comfortable 2012-09-26T15:47:45Z

But Astaire was more than a dancer: he was the embodiment of an era; defined, like the man himself, in elegant black and white. The 10 best dancers 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z

“France won’t send us any good plays,” complains the director, a commanding and elegant man who surely deserves better. ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’ at BAM 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

This elegant wine is classic Provence rosé, a virtual trip to the Cote d’Azur on the wings of bottled sunshine. An excellent California pinot noir for $14? You better believe it. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Williams famously worked in a variety of elegant modes—from Tudor to Colonial to streamlined modern—catering to a clientele that also included Frank Sinatra, Tyrone Power, and Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Ellen Pompeo's Family-Friendly California Home 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

It is elegant, clean and well structured, reminiscent of a cru Beaujolais or lighter Rhone red. The warmth of these 5 wines can offset winter’s chill 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

He’s both a character and an aesthetic inspiration for the movie’s elegant, kinetic, color-filled frames, which conjure a lost but nonetheless vivid moment of bliss. ‘Dancing the Twist in Bamako’ Review: Youth in Revolt 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Ronald and Nancy Reagan helped popularize elegant dining and Jelly Bellies, while George and Barbara Bush favored casual dining and pork rinds. Looking for a Trump Doctrine in the White House Kitchen 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

This is the easiest ever way to serve smoked salmon that's elegant to boot. 11 best smoked salmon recipes, bagels included 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

But Diana “loved the color black. She thought it was really elegant,” Moran says. Princess Diana was the queen of revenge fashion 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

To thread the different time periods, Simon employs a fictionalized hotel staff, and his solution to continuing these characters into the 2008 epilogue is shrewd and elegant. L.A.'s Central Avenue heyday evoked with panache in 'Dunbar Hotel' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

The designer's signature is romantic and elegant clothes. Lancome taps Lanvin's Elbaz for collaboration 2013-01-14T17:31:05Z

Downs’s “The Border” is an elegant and lively album that paints indelible portraits with depth and wit. Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

This is a gorgeous wine, smooth, elegant and distinctive, with precise, savory flavors. 10 Sparkling Wines for Leaving 2020 Behind 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

And now there are elegant 'posh' brands, cleverly marketed on the principle that the higher the price the better the product! Vodka Comes In From the Cold 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

I visited the casually elegant Upper West Side location on a blustery Sunday. Where to find the best vegan dining in Manhattan 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

“All styles and periods appealed to us, as long as the jewels were unique, exceptional in terms of material and craftsmanship, and elegant in design,” she added. 'Gilded Lily' Sheds Her Treasures 2012-03-19T13:00:40Z

Fairchild’s segue feels like one of the more felicitous in the long history of classical ballet dancers re-creating their elegant lines on Broadway. Worlds converge with grace in ‘An American in Paris’ on Broadway 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Fassbender's Magneto is curt, cool, duplicitous – an elegant foil to Xavier and his angry self-pity. X-Men: Days of Future Past review – chaotic but fun 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a simple, sweet romance, unimaginable in today’s “S.N.L.,” carried by pantomime that is not just elegant but thoughtful. John Belushi in Focus: What a New Film Gets Right and What It Misses 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z

Her new collection, “Honeydew”, may be more muted in tone, but it retains the 78-year-old author’s ferociously individual style, characterised by prose that is bolshie yet nuanced, elegant but not fussy, stylish without being vain. First among equals 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Another for canned octopus with skillet-fried potatoes and aioli, a play on the Spanish classic pulpo a la gallega, promises an elegant dish — without having to massage, boil, or bludgeon an octopus. "Hot girl food" or not — tinned fish is the best fish 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

From gold necklaces to steel trusses is an epochal leap, chronicled in elegant shorthand. Review | In the galleries: A focus on sensitive portraits with biographical elements 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

“I found her extremely attractive and intelligent,” Parks told People magazine in 1974, soon after he and the tall, elegant Young married. Longtime publishing editor Genevieve Young dead at 89 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

The original wrapper featured a cameo of an elegant lady, her silhouette in profile. Skin Deep: When a Trusted Brand Disappears 2010-12-01T19:10:00Z

In addition to having a great name, it's effortlessly elegant, beyond luscious and plates beautifully. Love is a night in with homemade panna cotta, an easy-to-make and effortlessly elegant dessert 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Whelan is the perfect embodiment of this idea, with her qualities of lightness, ease and elegant simplicity. At the Kennedy Center, moments of sunlight are glorious but fleeting in ‘The Day’ 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

Housed in an elegant 19th-century mansion, the museum and its permanent collection is a jewel in its own right. In Transit: One Way to Spend Christmas in Paris 2010-12-23T11:00:11Z

Abstract projections crawled across the ceiling; the elegant molding overhead became electric goo. An Afrofuturism Festival Brings an Energy Shift to Carnegie Hall 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

Not incidentally does Bate admire such elegant and magisterial examples of historical criticism as E.R. Review | Who art thou, Shakespeare? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

One of the things that was most painful to observe about George VI is that if you read what he wrote, this is a man with a subtle, elegant mind. Tongue-tied 2011-01-06T08:18:39Z

Simple, clean-tasting and fresh, the grilled salmon salad at 2941 in Falls Church turns lunch into an elegant break in the day. The art of a light repast 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Retailers appreciate his ability to make elegant, youthful clothes, sparked with originality, but not to charge inflated prices. Sense and Sensibility 2012-09-25T18:19:08Z

The Z Zegna collection for spring/summer 2012 was an elegant mix of up-to-the-minute fabric technology, unexpected inspirations and fine tailoring. Special Report: Fashion: A Moment to Enjoy 2011-06-21T10:38:38Z

It’s made in a single bowl and is as elegant unadorned as it is with the optional ganache and mascarpone cream. 24 Brilliant Baking Recipes to Change Your Kitchen Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

Perlis, with a similarly inquisitive temperament and an elegant presence, made it her life’s mission to record the voices of American composers. 3,000 Interviews. 50 Years. Listen to the History of American Music. 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

How the residents open their doors to a stranger, and how two neighbors find their way forward after the deaths of their sons, is the backbone of this difficult but elegant story. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

A dramatic chandelier lends the entry a sophisticated, elegant look. An elegant chandelier takes a builder-grade foyer from bland to beautiful 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Biting the hand that feeds is definitely not elegant. Social Q?s: Social Q?s About Cellphones, a Restaurant Dispute, Tax Dodging, Pointed Questions 2012-03-01T21:42:03Z

And the rhetoric is mean, in part because it is less elegant. Books of The Times: ‘This Town,’ by Mark Leibovich, skewers Washington’s insiders. 2013-07-07T21:54:32Z

There’s simply no place in the contemporary world for a garment that doesn’t allow a woman to move at her own pace, no matter how elegant the line. Armani, Margiela and Female Strength 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

His bride and her companions are demurely elegant beauties in heeled shoes. In ‘Firebird,’ the Choreographer’s Art Is in Storytelling 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

Goodheart is an elegant writer and this is a highly readable introduction to America's great civil conflict. Four new books look at the Civil War, 150 years after it began 2011-04-20T21:27:04Z

The luxury leather accessories brand Valextra, known for its understated and elegant accessories, is no Sleeping Beauty brand. Special Report: The Forecast? Variable and Partly Stylish 2010-06-20T16:13:00Z

In one shot the women are clad in elegant jackets, trousers and skirts. An Exhibition That Blends the Runway and the Street 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Its red belly and green throat, improbably paired with a black-and-white pinstriped undertail, were all in perfect view when he casually reached for my iPhone to tap an elegant photo through his spotting scope. Bears, Binoculars and Bucket-List Birds: A 15-Day Tour in Ecuador 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mine pivots on the elegant line: "You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter." Taylor Swift ? review 2011-03-31T16:59:22Z

He has secrets, this barren elegant house tells us, for if he didn't, he would pad the place with comfort and softness. "The Girl Before" confirms the villainy of minimalism 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

The artifice lies in the gorgeous colors, the suave camera movements and the elegant wide-screen compositions. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Whatever acoustic obstacles the room presented, Noseda and Co. surmounted with bright, muscular sound that as deftly retained Coleridge-Taylor’s elegant delicacy as it released Haydn’s explosive tensions. Review | Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra return with full hearts — and rows of empty seats 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Robinson played with elegant phrasing, but on the whole she and Mr. Fleisher failed to convey any of the passion or seething tension of this dramatic work. Music Review | Leon Fleisher and Friends: An Evening of Brahms Becomes a Memorial 2010-03-04T22:42:00Z

It might seem a natural progression from affectless boy to elegant young man to wise old man. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

In flashbacks, Allen serves up sumptuous glimpses of her former life: a beautiful apartment complete with hunter green walls, a vast beach house, elegant dinners in designer dresses. Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine:' portrait of a lady who loses it all 2013-07-26T01:31:45Z

Tall, elegant, relaxed and mellifluously spoken, the 74-year-old Italian looks every bit the internationally renowned architect. The Shard: Renzo Piano's great glass elevator 2012-06-13T17:43:50Z

Although Poitier is at his usual elegant and understated best, it’s Tracy and Hepburn who get the most noble speeches about tolerance and White uplift. Sidney Poitier was an icon of racial reassurance. But his genius lay in his rage. 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

“I like things to be casual and comfortable, but also elegant and chic,” she says. | Eva Karayiannis 2011-10-10T17:27:57Z

It’s an elegant, economical opening that sets up the show’s battle lines: the cowboy sheriff will fight the city-slick gangster, as well as corrupt officials and greedy businessmen, for Las Vegas’s soul. Television Review: ‘Vegas’ on CBS, Starring Dennis Quaid 2012-09-24T21:48:27Z

The two recently released an impressive disc of Verdi opera scenes; Ms. Radvanovsky also recently recorded a CD of Verdi arias that illuminates her elegant phrasing and lustrous sound. Critic?s Notebook: At the Met, a Soprano Ascendant 2011-04-19T21:15:09Z

If there’s a more elegant yet swashbuckling green curry with chicken and eggplant to be found, it has managed to miss my spoon. Mango Tree review: Why it doesn’t matter that it’s part of a chain 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

How should a person inhabit a perfectly elegant, black-and-white cartoon panel? Review: In Sheila Heti’s New Play, Canadians Lose Themselves in Paris 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Jong Oh uses string, pencil and hanging Plexiglas to draw in midair a form that’s mostly but not entirely illusory; the elegant piece defines space while barely occupying it. Galleries: Big Brother is watching 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

It is surrounded by three other elegant, geometric abstractions, in restrained palettes of black, white, red and gold. Gloppy abandon meets elegant restraint at Blum & Poe's Kazumi Nakamura exhibition 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Widowed and well off, Clara lives in the Aquarius, an elegant 1940s apartment building in the seaside town of Recife in north-east Brazil, where she raised her three children, now grown up. Sônia Braga: ‘The Oscars only have four spaces for best actress – one is always reserved for Meryl Streep’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

I paid a visit to a spacious model suite, whose high ceilings, parquet floors and curvaceous niches preserve the elegant simplicity of Jazz Age metropolitan style. The Man Who Changed the Face of Shanghai 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The house’s elegant stage curtain is usually emblazoned with “ER II,” the emblem of Queen Elisabeth. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z

Grand and breathtaking with its elegant filigree panels of bronze-tinted aluminum. ‘Thinking of the past, considering the future.’ Inside the African American History and Culture Museum. 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

If you have a taste for his hauntingly enigmatic stories, in which the surreal, the Kafkesque and the undecidable are related in elegant Augustan prose, you will be eager to acquire everything he ever wrote. Summer’s hidden gems, selected by Michael Dirda 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

It doesn't sound complicated, but it's a more mature, elegant palette of emotions. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

Le Riche, bending down on one elegant knee, stutters a few yards in that position — a prince turned anxious jester. Sylvie Guillem - review 2011-07-06T23:44:38Z

Hustle is fluid, fleet, as elegant as it is funky. A Walk in Their Heels: Meet the Hustle Evangelist 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

That goes especially for the elegant costuming of the terrific Candy Buckley, who provides the evening’s one outstanding performance, as an American identified in the program as a “White House official.” Is Vladimir Putin box-office poison? In a new play, he’s certainly toxic enough. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Many of his best-known works are jewel-like, intricate, elegant pieces with beautiful detail, made on a relatively small scale. Joan Mir? Tate retrospective reunites triptychs 2011-04-11T14:23:12Z

My favorite is HemLoft, an elegant cocoon in British Columbia that is, sadly, no more. ‘Be in a Treehouse: Design, Construction, Inspiration,’ by Pete Nelson

NBC is also remodeling the lobby to restore the building’s elegant mezzanine. Jimmy Fallon’s Name Goes On 30 Rock Marquee 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

But the flavors weren’t elegant enough for the opening, Mr. Achatz felt — so he made it harder. The Perfect Menu. Now Change It. 2011-02-16T06:00:43Z

Ms. Cook, a sharp and surprising country singer, writes most of her own songs, the best ones taking one person and unpacking them by adding elegant detail after elegant detail. Music Review: Elizabeth Cook, With Crew of Characters in Tow 2010-06-22T22:04:00Z

He revealed even deeper dimensions of his mature artistry in this elegant and vibrant performance of the Beethoven. Music Review: Young Concert Artists Gala at Alice Tully Hall 2013-05-17T21:18:15Z

Interior designer Kathleen Glossa stuck to the modern theme with furnishings and finishes at once warm, elegant and family friendly. Prairie Home: The lineage is classic, the feel mostly modern 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Wadsworth's production is elegant but a bit static, reinforcing the feeling that the work is as much oratorio as opera. 'Maometto' takes Santa Fe Opera by storm 2012-08-05T16:44:09Z

The effect is ethereal yet unpretentious, airy, elegant and livable. The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

A piece of pearl jewelry always adds a romantic and elegant note to a look. 10 Winter Fashion Ideas Inspired by the English Countryside 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Devote time to wandering the narrow, cobblestone streets or looking down into this elegant and beautiful city from the ramparts. See the light: Instead of joining the throngs on Mont Saint-Michel, go to Saint-Malo 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Jericho, Acre and Jaffa are among the most venerable cities in the world, far older than the Arabic script in which Nawaf Soliman has rendered their names for elegant posters. Review | In the galleries: Multiple works by Black artists create a vision of authority 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

After Mr. Royal’s debut in “Apollo” during Ballet Theater’s season last fall, the critic Gia Kourlas wrote in The New York Times that he was “suddenly the most elegant male dancer in the company.” At Vail Dance Festival, a Season of Premieres and Ballet Stars 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Last year’s envelope was an elegant red, but the lettering on it was rendered in a light, not-easily-readable gold. The Best and Worst of Oscars 2018 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

“I was thinking of the modern, elegant yet conservative girl when I designed this collection, especially someone who is Saudi and proud of it,” Ms. Al. Saudi Arabia’s Female Designers to Know 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Her elegant, elongated limbs were camouflaged, and her pale, makeup-free face seemed girlish. Sylvie Guillem?s ?6000 Miles Away? at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-30T16:19:31Z

But Edwards’ warning, if inartfully composed, offers an unintentionally elegant reminder of how heterosexism asserts and sustains itself. Straight America’s gay baggage: Why Michael Sam matters 2014-02-10T18:15:00Z

It was an elegant capstone to an often exquisite performance. Review: Keith Jarrett at Carnegie Hall, Precise and Aglow 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Each is a marvel of elegant understatement and compositional verve. Painters Fred Reichman and Eleanor Ray, attuned to the humble beauty of the everyday 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

But there are elegant historic details, like a grand 16th-century spiral staircase in a tower that houses the couple’s private quarters. | A Fairy Tale Retreat in Wales 2013-05-24T13:37:14Z

Her elegant, mysterious film is set almost entirely within the confines of a modernist London home. From Panic Room to Cabin Fever: films about isolation, to watch in self-isolation 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Whatever the tempo, a quintessentially French danciness is paramount, an elegant playfulness that breathes even through Italianate harmonic wanderings: The back end of the Gavotte in Senaillé’s Sonata in D here gets fascinatingly dusky. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

It is both elegant and unstuffy, and its fidelity to seafood — both from the Adriatic and the lagoon — is total. An Adriatic Feast on the Italian Coast 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

The gentlemen looked elegant and refined but mostly faded into the background as fashion’s supporting players. How Bryce Dallas Howard’s size 6 dress won the Golden Globes red carpet 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

Drawn in a simple, elegant style known as clear line, Hergé’s Tintin has a spherical head, a stub nose and black ovals for eyes. | 'The Adventures of Tintin': ?The Adventures of Tintin? by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-20T22:03:02Z

His prose remained elegant while his life became crumpled. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z

"Having our software in the cloud gives consumers the ability to click their remote control and navigate through thousands of choices in a simple and elegant way. That's magic." CEO Brian Roberts bulks up Comcast for the future 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Back then the original elegant grandstand was filled with spectators and 15 horses ran each race, instead of five now. Beirut's racetrack hopes for winning streak again 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Creamy, balanced and elegant, with light flavors of red fruits. Rosé Champagne Brings the Holiday Joy 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Pilati’s skill is in creating intricate cuts and shapes that appear so simple: a navy double-faced coat, roomy and elegant; or a first stab at evening wear in beautifully draped long back dresses. Fashion Review: With Stefano Pilati Designs, Agnona Intends to Grow 2014-02-23T18:27:08Z

It’s a clever campus comedy that juggles a handful of hot potatoes — race, sex, privilege, power — with elegant agility and only an occasional fumble. ‘Dear White People,’ About Racial Hypocrisy at a College 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

But it is also an elegant piece with a refined French sensibility, a work that looks back, especially to Gluck. Music Review: ‘Les Troyens,’ at the Royal Opera House in London 2012-06-26T21:10:52Z

There is oak paneling throughout, and the exterior is in an elegant neo-Classical style. Modern Meets Classic in a Sleek Madrid Hotel 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Acclaimed as one of the most elegant buildings in the Hong Kong’s New Territories, it was declared a historic and architectural landmark in 1987. 2010-02-01T05:00:00Z

She wore an elegant strapless evening gown bareback on a horse. Ralph Lauren taps polo couple to relaunch Romance 2011-05-02T18:45:38Z

The jewel of the building is the elegant 2,400-seat symphony hall, whose acoustic panels recall birds in flight. New Philharmonic takes wing above Paris periphery 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

But it will give the pre-Oscar season, starting now, a sober, elegant French accent. Zero Dark Thirty Waterboards the Competition 2013-01-13T22:10:34Z

With one especially elegant shot of worshipers crisscrossing bridges, Mr. Nalin demonstrates his ability to conjure some of the essence of this spiritual journey. ‘Faith Connections,’ About the Hindu Festival Kumbh Mela 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

It's a mission statement that this Northern Quarter bar fulfils with a similar elegant simplicity. This week's new food & drink 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z

Judging from the episodes I’ve heard, it’s smartly conceived and executed, blending delicious archival audio with personable narration and elegant sound design. Three Podcasts to Listen to in February 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

That facility’s growth at the edge of the once elegant, now rundown St. Louis Place neighborhood has spurred fears of yet another wave of displacement. Counterpublic in St. Louis Pushes the Public-Art Envelope 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

At Sakalleo, fish just hours from the sea is prepared by a family of staff in a way that manages to be as elegant and homely as the place itself. Rachel Roddy’s cuttlefish pistachio polpette recipe | A Kitchen in Rome 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Astride a white horse and garbed in an elegant cape and crown, she was compared by the press to a modern-day Joan of Arc and called the “most beautiful suffragist.” She Was More Than Just the ‘Most Beautiful Suffragist’ 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Writing in The Washington Post, movie critic Gary Arnold called him “probably the most elegant and adroit star yet recruited to portray a villain in the series.” Louis Jourdan, who epitomized Gallic charm in Hollywood movies, dies at 93 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Similarly, its costumbrismo, or costume paintings, capture the way Mexicans have decorated and dressed, stretching from buttoned-up Spanish gentry to elegant, high-fashion socialites in the 1960s. In Mexico City, a Private Art Collection Evolves into a Public Museum 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Since the wedding sounds as if it will be fairly formal— “evening wedding at an elegant hotel” — use titles before the parents’ names, the norm for more formal invitations. Q&A: The Well-Mannered Wedding 2011-03-18T19:53:29Z

"George and I wanted a wedding that was romantic and elegant, and I can't imagine anyone more able than Oscar to capture this mood in a dress," the British-Lebanese bride told Vogue. Amal Alamuddin earns high-fashion accolades as Clooney's bride 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

It happened within yet another whipped-up New York Times piece about the Four Seasons Restaurant — the elegant midtown epicenter of Manhattan power lunching whose lease expires this July. Henry Kissinger, style icon: The NY Times’ “Four Seasons wardrobe” interviews offer a weird, candid glimpse into the minds of power lunchers 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

In October, he will open Eden, an 80-seat restaurant he describes as simple and elegant, in the Cachet Boutique NYC hotel on West 42nd Street. A Star Chef From Asia Lands in New York 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Ever-entertaining and perpetually dazzled by the new, Johnson couldn’t resist gossip, fast cars or elegant clothes. ‘Man in the Glass House’ Examines an Architect of the 20th Century 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

With their slender, elegant bodies forming an indistinguishable sea of tan and white, hopefully keeping them safe from predators, they didn’t register the vehicle without its engine sounds. The Wonder Women of Botswana Safari 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Those adventures are book-ended between fitness classes that range from cardio dance and circuit training to Pilates and foam rolling, and elegant meals are served communally by a local chef at the group’s private villas. Get a Workout and a Vacation at the Same Time 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

His daughter Jessica remembered him as "a funny, elegant, generous and brilliant man... who lived to work and to be with his friends and the people he loved." Mark Strand, US poet, dies at 80 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Hotel Review: The Surrey in New York In an elegant building just steps from Central Park, with prices starting at $445 a night. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: The Surrey in New York 2012-09-07T15:33:13Z

Critics praised the vibrant, elegant and clear playing. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Poulenc creates extraordinary Balinese gamelan effects at several stages as well as powerful evocations of both Mozartian grace and elegant Jazz Age chic; as you listen, the music keeps acquiring new dimensions. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘A Program of Firsts,’ a Tricky Triple Bill 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

The lyrics "I really can't stay," didn't register with me that much because the performances – Williams calm and clever; Montalbán elegant and cheerful – feel balanced and, yes, consensual. Why this "Baby, It's Cold Outside" update works, where others have failed 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

Like the classics that inspire it, “The Latinist” is an inventive wedding of the elegant and the barbaric. Review | ‘The Latinist’ is the perfect suspense novel to kick off your reading year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

The Hayes is a 1912 jewel box with city landmark protections; Mr. Rockwell said he would leave the brick facade and elegant ornamental ceiling untouched. Second Stage in Push for Money to Buy Helen Hayes 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Under Mr. Levine, the musicians, including the elegant young pianist Bryan Wagorn, an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, played with color and confidence. Review: Met Chamber Ensemble Salutes Boulez With a Less Complicated Piece Than Planned 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

It was an elegant, snappy introduction to a very successful coinage. From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

Bird watchers and animal seekers tend to have a few dream species; for Alex, that meant orangutans and Borneo’s endemic pittas — small, elegant, colorful birds that scavenge for insects and leeches on the forest floor. Birder, scuba diver — or both? This biodiverse destination offers the best of both worlds 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

It’s equal parts elegant and absurd, and, while not exactly a simple recipe, it’s easy enough to pull off if you’re willing to trust in Heatter and do exactly what she says. Remembering Maida Heatter, a Charmingly Shameless Self-Promoter Who Became a Legend of Desserts 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

Oddly colored, with a narrow but beautiful palette, the pictures are equal parts goofy and elegant. New Picture Books Pose Two of Life’s Biggest Questions 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The designer L’Wren Scott, whose was found dead in her New York apartment on Monday, started her fashion collection eight years ago, building it on her own elegant and towering self. On the Runway Blog: A Reflection: Suzy Menkes on the Fashion Designer L’Wren Scott 2014-03-17T19:01:28Z

“It’s such a relaxed way to fly, an elegant experience and so hassle-free,” he said. Taking a Private Jet Could Be More Affordable Than You Think 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

The five judges deemed her the prettiest and most elegant contestant. 'Not your typical pageant': Miss Chubby contest embraces plus-size beauty 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

This elegant history of the rise of the West, by a former Africa correspondent for The Times, places that continent — with its wealth of resources, both natural and human — at the center of the story. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

It really does keep me warm, and it makes me feel like an elegant lady out in Park City doing business, on a Friday afternoon. What 9 Actors and Filmmakers Wore to the Sundance Film Festival 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

"Clapping is not exactly elegant," he said, "and after a few minutes people just start talking again." Vatican in row over 'drunken tourist herds' destroying majesty of the Sistine Chapel 2012-09-29T10:48:32Z

Hannigan's accounts of the songs were typically elegant, careful and just a little cool, but they made their point perfectly. Hannigan/De Leeuw/Quatuor Diotima – review 2013-01-25T12:35:01Z

If “Dreaming in French” often seems like elegant grasping, there are few writers whom I’d rather grasp along with. Books of The Times: ?Dreaming in French,? by Alice Kaplan 2012-04-03T21:57:00Z

Scott-Heron was a born wordsmith and this is an elegant, playfully elusive book to file alongside Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One. Christmas gifts 2012: the best music books 2012-11-29T08:00:04Z

Using an elegant lighting effect, recalling the style of Act II, in the same spot and on the same scale as the film of Act I, the image serves — if coincidentally — to unify the production. One Opera, Three Acts, Three Different Stagings 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

But Raventós I Blanc manages, year after year, to nail it with its elegant, graceful de Nit, which offers just a hint of color and floral fruit to remind you it is a rosé. 12 Summer Sparkling Wines, Because Who Needs a Reason 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

He is surely the most elegant and balletic athlete on the pro tennis circuit. Can Roger Federer Break a Sweat? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Even some admirers today feel that Clark’s most lasting book might be his elegant, irony-suffused memoir, “Another Part of the Wood ,” published nine years before his death in 1983. The man who brought humanist values — and ‘Civilisation’ — to a mass market 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Look twice at a group of long-haired dandies and they morph into underpaid soldiers, emaciated by hunger and clothed in elegant rags. Watteau at the Royal Academy: the theatre of life 2011-03-14T17:11:09Z

The rosé pét-nat is satisfyingly fizzy with the sort of elegant, unmuddled finish that might cause your party guest to confuse it with Champagne if you forced him to taste it with his eyes closed. 12 natural wines for those intimidated by natural wine 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

It was to be another four years before the elegant, cantilevered concrete dish was opened in 1996, to universal acclaim. Oscar Niemeyer obituary 2012-12-06T00:35:38Z

In a style that parallels Valextra’s elegant product design, the new space conjures an atmosphere of Milanese modernism. Look inside Valextra’s first U.S. location on Madison Avenue 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Virginia Warnken, an elegant alto, replaced the same absent singer in several ensemble selections on just 24 hours’ notice. Music Review: Worth a Reprise at Age 401 2011-01-04T01:02:28Z

Globe tripping has always been as crucial to the movies as groovy gadgets: it’s an elegant way to map the geopolitical coordinates while providing armchair adventure for the rest of us. Movie Review: ‘Skyfall,’ With Daniel Craig as James Bond 2012-11-07T19:59:51Z

Tisserand, growing into the company’s most elegant male, is able to match her in warmth and charm. ‘Debonair’: Justin Peck’s ode to love premieres at PNB 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Savage said she remembered her neighbor as an elegant woman with flowing blond hair and "a warm smile." Body thought to be ex-Playmate's found in LA home 2011-05-03T09:31:04Z

Weber’s quintet is a showcase for clarinet, a virtuoso mini-concerto whose technical demands Mr. Shifrin ably navigated, with elegant and gracious support from the strings. Music Review: Clarinets and Orion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-01T20:47:40Z

Mr. Paglialunga said he was inspired by the 1930s — which was the hot trend in Milan — and his sinuous evening gowns were elegant. Fashion Review: Bill Gaytten at Dior Shows a Light Touch 2011-09-30T18:29:29Z

It also reflects an elegant commitment to the idea that one can see the future in the patterns of history. Pope Francis takes down the right: “I don’t think the bishops are going to come flocking around (Santorum) any more” 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

All of which is rich subject matter for local artists who show their work in the elegant and friendly Avocet Gallery and Tea Room, which serves seasonal baking amid ceramic pots and paintings. 10 hidden beaches, bays and walks on the UK coastline 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Her main requirement was actually finding an actor who could dance: “She didn’t mind if the actor wasn’t trans. She wanted someone who would respect her in an elegant way.” 'I have the right to tell this story': Lukas Dhont defends his trans film Girl 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

The school’s students carried off these elements — which would defeat many foreign dancers — with apparent delight; the elegant carriage of their heads and arms was a particular pleasure. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z

I miss the old chiffon skirts: simple, clean, elegant. At New York City Ballet, the Good, the Bad and the Ruby 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

“It looks a little more elegant,” she says. Beauty Blogging in Dubai 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

One role that offers a happy medium, with lyric phrases and elegant ornamentation, is the heroine of Handel’s “Rodelinda.” Ren?e Fleming With the Met and Chicago?s Lyric Opera Company 2012-01-27T19:30:47Z

The title novella manages to combine George Orwell’s bureaucratic chill from “1984” with Toni Morrison’s elegant judgments from “Beloved.” 10 books to read in November 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

But too often in interior design projects, these processes are treated as ends rather than means, with results that are usually more earnest than elegant. | A Restaurant in Harlem Where Everything Old Is New Again 2013-08-30T13:00:27Z

The passing around of solos through the winds in the fourth movement offered a feeling of humanity but, like this performance as a whole, felt a bit stranded: neither elegant nor raw. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Leads His New York Philharmonic 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a room that would not look out of place at Dia:Beacon or some other temple of Minimalism, although there are other entry points for its elegant, iterative integration of painting and architecture. A 101-Year-Old Artist Finally Gets Her Due at the Whitney 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“People have called my work elegant,” he once said. Ellsworth Kelly, abstract artist of enduring influence, dies at 92 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

A sturdy, elegant palette mixes stainless steel railings and Corten planters with industrial relics. 3 Lush Parks Drastically Remake the East River Waterfront 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Half Moon was a palace, elegant, serene, welcoming. Jamaica, Beyond the Beach 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Ms. Childs’s works are known for their elegant minimalism, as well as their enchanting, repetitive moves. See the Dances of Lucinda Childs, Who Is Being Honored for Lifetime Achievement 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

“It’s the most fun of any of the clubs because there’s this range of humanity. There are people who are unspeakably vulgar and loud and fairly disgusting, and elegant people. It’s lively.” Palm Beach used to be a nice town for billionaires. Then Trump came along. 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

The metal shines brightly, especially against the dark, Afro-Indian skin of the elegant trio, where it frames and accents their attentive faces. When are feathers worth more than gold? 'Kingdoms' exhibition answers with spectacular finds 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

In the ballerina role, Frances Chung is strong and lucid; what she lacks as yet is a powerful dynamic range and the quality of elegant stretch that would turn her clarity into amplitude. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z

He is the most vocal champion of the designer and his elegant handbags and modernist ready-to-wear. Reed Krakoff takes on the fashion world with help from D.C. fans, including Michelle Obama

We always think of Austen as so poised and elegant; there is a sort of rage underneath that lives in this character, which I really liked seeing. Kate Beckinsale: ‘Austen’s Lady Susan is like Emma on steroids’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The southern style is slower, gentler, more elegant, though still fierce. Adding Razzle-Dazzle to a Gaucho Dance Style 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

But the unheard music of Stone’s lower intestinal tract is nonetheless a key structural element, organizing “Flux Gourmet” into an elegant fugue of contrapuntal themes: grossness and refinement; pleasure and disgust; appetite and discipline. ‘Flux Gourmet’ Review: Mastering the Art of Fringe Cooking 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Priestley’s novel was the witty forerunner to less elegant vehicles for the Bowery Boys and Bob Hope; TV sitcoms like “The Addams Family” and “The Munsters”; and, most notably, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” ‘The Old Dark House’ Is Creepy. Its Occupants? Downright Kooky. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

But unlike Jill Soloway’s Amazon series “Transparent,” which embeds gender transition in a dense and detailed weave of family relations, “The Danish Girl” takes place in the airless, elegant atmosphere of quality filmmaking. Review: ‘The Danish Girl,’ About a Transgender Pioneer 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

But “Elder Race” maintains a knife’s-edge balance between the two, and Tchaikovsky’s attention to language as a marker of genre, and to genre as a kind of translation, is elegant and thoughtful. Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

The rail-thin Ms. Wilson, her hair pulled back, a gardenia tucked behind one ear, cut a striking and elegant figure onstage in clinging custom-made gowns usually augmented by a feather boa. Julie Wilson, Sultry Cabaret Legend and Actress, Dies at 90 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Here, elegant food is prepared through the most primitive method known to man: fire and smoke. At Saison, the hearth’s fire and smoke set the beat for the kitchen 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Set in the 19th century at an elegant country mansion, the film follows a woman who's dying of cancer as her two sisters and her maid struggle to comfort her in her last days. Christopher Nolan's bold, offbeat 'Interstellar' 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

“It’s not the college, Dave Matthews Band kind of vibe. It’s this really elegant place.” ‘Cannabis oasis’: Los Angeles cafe first in the US to offer dine-and-dab service 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

What you see, on the white wall, are elegant sweeping marks, a script you can’t quite make out or have forgotten to learn. Perspective | This legendary street artist has done walls, shoes and Bieber albums. Now he’s trying opera. 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

But now her elegant body and beautiful eyes looked wild and dangerous, her gaze desperate to kill. The Leopard Queen by TheBookThief - story 2012-06-27T08:00:00Z

The purse was small and boxy, like an elegant takeout container. Is Roland Mouret More Than a One-Hit Wonder? 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

He quickly assumed the stage name of Tabboo! and also busied himself establishing the graphic style of the period with a multitude of grittily elegant posters, announcements and fliers for events at Pyramid and elsewhere. Tabboo! Paints a Valentine to New York City 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. McClatchy’s respect for the original librettos comes through in his often elegant translations. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

“He makes elegant clothes for me, like the pink dress I wore to Victoria’s wedding,” Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway said, referring to the Swedish royal wedding this year. Special Report: In Color and Shape: Who Dares Wins 2010-09-26T17:39:00Z

She may make rude jokes, but her set Sunday ought to be the weekend's most elegant. Capitol Hill Block Party 2012: break outs and sure things 2012-07-19T14:01:12Z

Stephen Jones and Cerith Wyn Evans have created a piece where five glowing rings of tiny LEDs orbit around a central head band, in an elegant nod to the five Olympic rings. In Pictures: Britain Creates 2012 2012-07-06T11:37:11Z

And rightly so – it was a slick, masterly series packed to bursting with thrilling plot and elegant performances. Golden Globes 2018: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Candles glow from recesses in the walls of this elegant, clean-lined set — a classically contemplative monument to democracy, and the shell for Mr. Nelson’s memorial to Socrates. Review: In ‘Socrates,’ a Brainy Tribute to a Prickly Provocateur 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

The elegant, up-tempo “Grace for Saints and Ramblers” fares much better, yet it remains debatable whether this material benefits from such slick production and ornate arrangements. Reviews of new albums from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Iron & Wine and Willie Nelson 2013-04-15T21:55:09Z

These days, it’s a bastion for elegant boutiques. 36 Hours in Vilnius, Lithuania 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Three distinct apple types — bitter, tart and sweet — are needed for a drink that is balanced and elegant, with the refreshing whiff of bitterness that hops provides for beer. The Hard-Cider Craze Will Get a Hard-Core Pub 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

An elegant, diffident figure with a thatch of fair hair and an engagingly lop-sided smile, Astor combined modesty, idealism and astonishing generosity with a steely determination. David Astor: The pioneering editor who loved an underdog 2011-04-02T23:09:52Z

Fuqua, who steered Washington to an Oscar in Training Day, creates tension by mixing extreme closeups with elegant tracking shots. Review: The Equalizer Pits Denzel Washington Against the Entire Russian Mob. Guess Who Wins? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

A cozy yet elegant bar and lounge is a new addition to the lower level of Chelsea Market. CheLi Serves Shanghai Specialties in the East Village 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

The lithesome, elegant musical style known as choro originated in Rio during the 19th century, as an adaptation of folk traditions like the Cuban habanera and the Polish mazurka. The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

The Oscars are so dazzling, so elegant, so . . . logistical. What four different Hollywood people do in the 24 hours before the Oscars 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

So you allow them to get long and elegant and as the Indians say; rice should be like brothers, close together but not stuck to each other. Madhur Jaffrey makes both the supple and complex flavors of Indian food stand up to the Instant Pot 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z

When was the last time you heard a performance of Thomson’s fresh, beguiling and wildly unconventional “Symphony on a Hymn Tune” or Piston’s elegant Viola Concerto, with its sublime slow movement? Copland, Thomson and Others in a Fantasy Music Festival 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Do you arrive as the clock strikes in elegant evening wear, or do you wander in whenever, in an unbuttoned shirt, woolly sweater and muddy shoes? How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

But the linchpin of this production is Mr. Krawczyk, not just for his elegant playing but for his free adaptation of Mozart’s score. Music Review: A Streamlined ?Magic Flute,? Reimagined by Peter Brook 2011-07-07T22:03:44Z

But this one did — not because Sorrell brought any striking interpretive approach to the score, but because she guided a lithe, glowing and elegant performance from the fine soloists, stirring chorus and orchestra. Review: ‘Messiah’ Brings the New York Philharmonic to Church 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Her Caribbean-themed collection – call it elegant beachwear – was confident and appealing. On the Runway Blog: On 'Project Runway,' Narrowing the Field 2011-09-09T20:49:10Z

It delivers a level of pleasurable excess you might expect from a Chang restaurant, but set against the grounded moderation of the plantains, it provides elegant balance — porky treble to the dish’s starchy bass. Momofuku Seiobo Champions Caribbean Food With Australia’s Bounty 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

With its elegant documentary-style approach, Brooks's novel reignited the sagging zombie genre in the literary world, so it's incredibly disappointing that the movie adaptation looks unlikely to do the same for its celluloid equivalent. World War Z: is Brad Pitt making the most expensive disaster movie of all time? 2013-05-03T10:38:00Z

First came murex, an elegant snail with a pointed end, served with mayonnaise made with raw egg yolks. In France, a Yearly Feast of Fish 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Ratmansky likes to create an interplay between formality and spontaneity, and Côté, with his elegant line, expansive arms and sensuous épaulement, embodies this approach perfectly. Ecstasy and Death; Romeo and Juliet – review 2013-04-20T23:06:09Z

But what you get for trading in something old and elegant isn’t always such a bargain. Review: A Molière-Born Cad for the Ages in ‘Don Juan’ 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

The Pulitzer board called it "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal." Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners 2011-04-19T00:29:08Z

And the corps of eight — which never leaves the stage — matched the elegant cut and thrust of Bach’s orchestral writing. New York City Ballet Double Bill at Lincoln Center 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Years later, as the couple prepared to take their case to the Supreme Court, Loving gave his attorneys his simple, elegant rebuttal. Gay marriage’s real pioneers 2013-03-27T21:05:00Z

Baker’s style might be described as elegant and understated. Michael Dirda selects three magical books 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

For generations, Industrial Age powerhouses in Europe turned into what we would call “the rust belt,” while their elegant “first city” counterparts enjoyed the luster of the Information Age. Visit Porto, one of Europe’s most alluring ‘second cities’ 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Like an Al Hirschfeld illustration, Ms. Feinstein’s characters are stylish quick sketches with elegant flourishes. Comedians Like Sebastian Maniscalco Act Out Their Humor 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Ms. Carter, for one, said she had chosen an elegant Oscar de la Renta navy and black lace jacquard. Is It Time for Wonder Woman to Hang Up Her Bathing Suit? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

In the painting, though, it is replaced with a broken lance – more elegant, more decorative, but less disturbing. The Italian Renaissance drawings at the British Museum show what lies beneath 2010-04-04T20:30:00Z

And she goes on to draw an elegant lesson from the heart attack she suffered in 2012, one of a number of quiet insights this small but striking film offers. Television Review: Jane Fonda and Others Recall Mom in ‘(Dead Mothers) Club’ 2014-05-11T20:01:20Z

She represented the regal and elegant Beverly Johnson, the first African American model to appear on the cover of Vogue. Eileen Ford and Ford Models helped define what American beauty looked like

"It's always stuck in the back of my mind as one of the funniest, most elegant, most sparking, brilliant, most assured pieces of writing," he said. British comedy 'The Philanthropist' returns to London stage 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Fifty years ago, having a meal in the dining car was an elegant affair — think linen tablecloths, fine china, silverware. Sharing Stories, and a View, Aboard the California Zephyr 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z

“Mann would undoubtedly be far happier with his new translator, John E. Woods, who succeeds in capturing the beautiful cadence of his ironically elegant prose,” Mr. Harman wrote. John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Near the start of Shawn Vestal’s elegant debut novel, “Daredevils,” Jason, a teenager raised in a Mormon family, sets off for church with his grandfather, but they never get there. In Shawn Vestal’s ‘Daredevils,’ Evel Knievel inspires a young Mormon to cut loose 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

The sleekly elegant spaces are furnished in dark woods with views of the sea. 36 Hours in Palm Beach, Fla. 2010-03-05T14:42:00Z

When I started my brand, I wanted to bring a very elegant and refined vision that elevated the location of Blackness within culture. Grace Wales Bonner Has Set Her Sights Beyond Fashion 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z

Ms. Tesori’s strong yet subtle score is combined with Mr. Thompson’s grimly elegant and snappy words — one of the best librettos I’ve heard in a long while. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Paul Gibson's quietly elegant "The Piano Dance" also was performed, the highlights of which were a silky solo by Rachel Foster and a languorous pas de deux by Orza and Lesley Rausch. Alexei Ratmansky's ballet 'Concerto DSCH' is a joy 2011-03-21T23:33:15Z

Sometimes they erupt in bladelike flanges that conjure a bouquet of elegant axes or the great rope-patterned pottery of Japan’s ancient Jomon period. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

He might be leaning on a custom, elegant cane — he might require a chic black walker. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein looks sloppy and weak. Do you believe him? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

“Honestly, elegance at the end of the day is in the heart,” said Defustel Ndjoko, 45, a supremely elegant designer originally from Cameroon. The Peacocks Return 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

Contrary to earlier reports, Davis said the academy did not tell Banksy to stay away from the Oscars for fear that he might cause a disruption at the elegant ceremony. Street artist Banksy welcome at Oscars, but will he show? 2011-02-19T22:06:00Z

The Times’s Alastair Macaulay described Ball as “elegant and notably buoyant” in “Symphony in C.” New York City Ballet Promotes Three Men to Principal Dancers 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

It centers on a casually elegant young woman who sits, facing the viewer, in a plush dining room. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

The horse-drawn hearse was decorated by vibrant orange flowers spelling “Keef” and “Chief”, while his infamous fluorescent green microphone and an elegant arrangement of white and red roses adorned the coffin. Music and motorbikes mark UK funeral of Prodigy frontman Keith Flint 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

There will be elegant state dinners — probably several, to rebuild global alliances — but the essence of Biden is playful and family friendly. Joe Biden’s Washington: How the president might engage with the city Trump ignored 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

That piece also includes the acronym “NSA,” whose activities are critiqued in Annie Bissett’s 26 elegant little woodcuts, each of which illustrates one of the agency’s code words. In the galleries: A debate between red and blue at Charles Krause

Greenwell’s style remains as elegant as ever, but here it’s perfectly subordinated to a fuller palette of events and themes. Review | In ‘Cleanness,’ Garth Greenwell explores the mysteries of love and pleasure 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Last year, the top dog at the National Dog Show was a sleek, elegant whippet named Whiskey. A beefy bulldog named Thor hammers the competition to win National Dog Show 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

The German speakers were more likely to describe it using adjectives like "beautiful" or "elegant," while the Spanish speakers were more likely to describe it in masculine ways — "tall" and "strong." Stop using "Latinx" if you really want to be inclusive 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

Two big scars held the body of the dove together, but the plate maintained an elegant, disjointed harmony. The Art of Mending 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Underpinning the elegant settings and cheerful amorality is the bond between Lily and Gaston. | Film: Amorality à Deux, Circa 1932 2014-04-18T20:30:33Z

It would be elegant but not stuffy, and educational and political without being preachy. He’s ready for his ‘Top Chef’ spotlight. And he wants to use it to talk about African food. 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The solution he devised was an elegant balancing act. Los Angeles’s Hunt House Could Be Demolished 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Shooting with a digital camera that picks up every face and wall crack, and in surprisingly elegant widescreen, they suggest the entirety of Clemente’s mean life in a few, short, pitilessly comic scenes. | 'Octubre': The Difference a Baby Can Make 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z

The ocean’s edible bounty receives expert and elegant treatment at Restaurant Gilles, a modern and minimalist room with muted colors. 36 Hours in Rennes and St.-Malo 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

A combination of Southern and modern styles, The Brown boasts an elegant lobby and several restaurants and bars. Budget Escapes 2010-05-12T17:32:00Z

And marching down the center are eight of Comme des Garçons’ bulkier, more impossible ensembles, elegant monstrosities that only a performance artist could love, or use. Art Review: ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture,’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2013-05-09T20:07:09Z

How about one as funny as Simpson, as attuned to the membrane of emotion as Kennedy, as elegant as Ishiguro, as much like a Tom Waits song as Alan Warner? Then and now: Granta's best young British novelists 2013-04-06T07:00:20Z

In the production, six dancers play Lulu; there are a few Modottis, too, but the delicately elegant Myssi Robinson plays the main one. Dream Logic Mixed With ‘a Catalog of My Interests Back in 1996’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

There have been a number of books written about the 2008 financial crisis, but few more elegant and astute than this one. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

The result was clothes that could appear tricky on the hanger but, once on, looked elegant and fluid. | The Independent 2014-02-09T02:00:12Z

The fruit-laden dessert pancake is elegant in its simplicity — glorious, golden brown and sugar dusted. The rustic French dessert that one-ups a pancake — and it’s healthful 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

At the same time, it is still recognizably a suit, elegant and very wearable, and you could go jogging after dinner without changing. Fashion Honors Zaha Hadid With ‘Extraordinary Process’ Exhibition 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The elegant lady spurns Orsino’s messages but is much taken with the messenger, who, in turn, is so smitten with the oblivious duke that she can barely stand to be near him. ‘Twelfth Night’ Review: A Shot of Joy Under a Darkening Sky 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

They pulled off the blindfold and I saw him sitting behind an elegant desk, and I knew that this was not a nightmare. Author, author: Samar Yazbek 2011-08-03T15:45:02Z

Use an elegant bow to attach it to the back of a chair. Christmas Wreaths 2010-11-19T16:21:00Z

The English contingent responded, with sturdy and elegant solo work from Pickett and Penelope Spencer on violin. Carlos Núñez, Philip Pickett and Musicians of the Globe – review 2013-02-03T18:50:33Z

In a perfectly elegant British accent, she expressed gratitude for the tour. I gave a famous rock star a windshield tour of D.C. — and didn’t know who she was 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

It makes me wish I had something understated and restrained – something, well, more English, more elegant and Julian Barnes-ish – in my nature and verbal armoury. Notes on PEN's annotated first edition auction 2013-05-20T10:58:00Z

This happened to me the other day in "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," which I expected to be a quiet, elegant tale of female friendship set in 19th-century China. Waking up in a bar with Hugh Jackman 2011-07-21T17:24:05Z

La Casilla, from bobal grown on limestone, is light, elegant and profoundly mineral, with stony flavors of red fruits, yet it goes down easy. 12 Wines for Thanksgiving and Beyond 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

This is a classic idea, one that comes packed with an elegant irony. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Compared with the Core works’ more confrontational, boisterous stance, the Spray paintings are elegant and demure. The Great Beginning of Jules Olitski 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

We have this elegant home, and it’s a public place, and we want as many people to enjoy it as possible.” In London, Embassy Residence Is Showcase for American Art 2011-02-28T21:27:00Z

Looking closely at her elegant constructions, one can see that they can actually behave like bodies, too. This Young Artist’s Works Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Alive 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cole basically did the inverse, creating the impression of raging energies held in elegant restraint. Fabian Almazan Takes ‘Rhizome’ Project to Village Vanguard 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

The prose is intricate, elegant and laced with dry humour. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore – review 2013-04-27T13:00:11Z

But there's another Moscow — alternately ostentatious, hip, crass, beautiful, elegant, luxurious and fascinating — that all visitors to the city must see if they want to get a feel for what this place is all about. 2009-10-16T08:50:00Z

The estate does not apply chemicals in the vineyards, nor use them during winemaking to produce its full-bodied yet elegant red xinomavros or other wines, including those made from French grapes like syrah. Greek Wines Get Back to Their Roots 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Family members described him as “courtly and elegant, always formally dressed,” Ms. Weiss writes. Antiques: Works by Haviland Ceramics and Robert R. Taylor 2012-01-12T21:49:49Z

A frittata also spans the spectrum of everyday to elegant. Lotta frittatas out there, but this one’s a keeper 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Surveying the scene, Ms. Sawyer said, “It’s fun, it’s different, it’s earthy. Whitney is very earthy. But it is also elegant. It’s a neat combination of farm and fine art.” After Broken Hearts and a Medical Emergency, the Timing Was Right 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

At the table, the elegant 30-year-old brunette suddenly slumped in her chair and awoke to find herself being rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. This Life: After a near-death moment, her life took a spiritual turn 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

She made of the slow movement an elegant blues. Dudamel and Wang deliver a 'Rhapsody in Blue' for the Hollywood Bowl history books 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

The whole thing is an imaginary room, with walls, fake marbling, trompe l'oeil radiators, a phone on the wall, the scuffs and stains and desuetude of a formerly elegant house, subdivided for multiple occupation. A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting? 2012-11-12T19:00:05Z

One of them is a stunner of an infinity pool that seemingly empties into the crater, linking the present and the primordial in a smooth and elegant flow. Crater-Side Luxury in Israel 2011-09-29T16:25:00Z

New works run the gamut from “something you might sing down the pub” to “refined and elegant compositions,” like McDowall’s, he added. A New Carol for an Old Christmas Tradition 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

An elegant fellow with intense blue eyes, Ilnicki has spent his whole adult life at the shop. The New York Butcher Offering Smoked Meats and Support for Ukraine 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

Her words are as elegant as they are fierce. Books of The Times: Tupelo Hassman?s Debut Novel, ?Girlchild? 2012-03-01T22:42:40Z

Maybe a few languished unworn in their original boxes after some elegant young woman died one of those appalling 19th-century deaths. | Connecticut: At the Bruce Museum, Gowns as Works of Art 2010-07-10T00:08:00Z

While I didn’t think that the Berluti presentation was meant to promote anything other than elegant men’s products, in a dramatic setting, it nonetheless betrayed indifference to the well-publicized threats to various species. Fashion Review: Small Gestures, Big Statements: The Men’s Collections in Paris — Fashion Review 2013-01-23T22:29:42Z

Her dress is understatedly elegant; she speaks of her old friend Bill Blass as one of her favorite designers. ‘Calendar Girl’ Review: A Portrait of an Angel of Fashion 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

The wine was elegant and reserved compared to the plusher, more powerful syrahs from farther south in the valley. In British Columbia, a burgeoning wine region that’s showing its muscle 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Where the video globe-hops across geographically unconnected locales, Cynthia Connolly’s elegant handmade book depicts one journey across the United States in 26 accordion-folded pages. Review | In the galleries: Circles of life at annual benefit for people living with cancer 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

“I was always upset that I didn’t have his hands because he’s got beautiful, long, elegant fingers and I don’t,” he said. Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston! 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

This briefly convened, decisively final incarnation of the Grateful Dead often managed to live up to the band’s name with songs that could turn intuitive, down-home, whimsical, haunted, elegant or euphoric. No Song Left Unsung, Grateful Dead Plays Its Last 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

The cards show men in wigs and elegant clothes discreetly carrying away sacks of excrement from Georgian townhouses in the middle of the night. It's rubbish all right. But is it art? 2011-08-04T12:25:47Z

The Independent's Michael Coveney wrote in his four-star review: "As a schooldays play about hierarchies, sex, suicide and loneliness, the piece hasn't dated, while Mitchell's elegant, incisive writing still pleases and provokes in equal measure." Cambridge spies play pleases critics 2014-04-04T12:15:58Z

But they were intellectually compatible and, during their 13 years together, shared a life of study, European travel and elegant friends. 'Clover Adams': a brilliant mind's path into darkness 2012-03-01T00:11:07Z

Furst rolls all of this out with his usual steady-as-she-goes pacing and a prose style that nicely mixes the elegant and the matter-of-fact. Alan Furst’s ‘A Hero of France’: Putting a human face on the French Resistance 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

The ceilings with their latticework looked vaguely Ottoman to me, the rooms a pale gray, elegant, with low divans. T Magazine: Beyond the Sea 2014-03-21T16:23:22Z

Holly exudes the tough, elegant self-confidence that has long been part of the Julia Roberts brand. ‘Ben Is Back’ Review: A Mother and Son Face the Horrors of Addiction 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

I spent a while going street by street before returning to the B&B, which welcomed me back with soft music and a jar of chocolate chip cookies in the elegant periwinkle-walled living room. Edward Harris House, a Rochester B&B with a bit of French allure

“It’s elegant, it’s fluid, it’s flowing,” Mr. Salaam said. DanceAfrica Celebrates Rwanda and a ‘Living Sense of Grace’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Both are packed with great performers who foreground the material, and singer Emilia Mårtensson made an elegant cameo appearance with each band's set. Beats & Pieces/Kairos 4tet ? review 2011-08-04T21:00:09Z

In the scenes of asylum routines and town rhythms, the sense of time and place is particular, apt, elegant, appropriately covert. ‘The Man Who Walked Away,’ by Maud Casey 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

But they’ve also taken on the demands of the inn, an elegant two-story structure built from the ground up, with five comfortably minimalist rooms, which, Mr. Connaughton said, they try to run like a home. An Overnight Success Story That Took Decades 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

We talk also about one of the most elegant and lucid pieces on display, The Road to Recovery. Art and the brain 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z

Styling: Melanie Wilkinson These are a bit more elegant than the usual lunchtime fix. Picnic recipes: food to enjoy in the great outdoors 2012-05-18T21:58:05Z

Vestiges of a past or harbingers of the future, the skeletons of once mighty oaks and elegant loblolly pines defy efforts to wholly preserve Tubman’s memory on these lands. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

These elegant etching-aquatints, hushed and seemingly watery, are odes to the process that made them. In the galleries: Lots of fast food, but you won’t want to take a bite. Trust us. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Ranging from dry and tannic, to fruit forward and elegant, and sometimes slightly sweet, Lambrusco is the ultimate food-friendly sparkling red wine. The only summer wines you need, according to a wine pro 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z

The menu is small: a handful of what are described as “tapas,” including an elegant cheese omelet presented as finger food, plus a dozen rice bowls and kimbap, or rolls. Zannchi offers plenty of reasons to get acquainted with the Georgetown newcomer 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

As expected from an English country garden, there were a lot of different textures ranging from an elegant looking dress in fluid lame tweed, to sheer tops in crystal embroidered silk tulle. Big-budget 'au revoir' ends Paris fashion week 2012-03-07T21:31:10Z

But then Barnett surprised me with vivid literary specificity: Once, she watches an egret fly alongside her bus, its “black-tipped wings working in perfect, elegant unison, its blue eye parallel with our own.” The Injustice Deep Within the Justice System 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Such juxtapositions are part of what the gallery calls “puzzling through new ideas,” and they may ultimately lead to a more elegant style. Galleries: ‘Kaleidoscope,’ ‘Aviary Wonders,’ ‘Interconnected,’ ‘Are You Gonna Eat That?’

But it’s a pretty nice twilight: a Boston critic recently praised “the suave, elegant tone, warm vibrato and innate feeling for musical character.” Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for January 2020 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Cohen burnishes his persona as the wry, elegant Romeo in “Slow,” which extols the unhurried approach: “A weekend on your lips/A lifetime in your eyes.” Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

The elegant flasks and platters evoke turbulent seas, melting glaciers, toxic algae and the boats of the province where she spent her childhood. Review | In the galleries: Extraordinary images from ordinary settings in ‘Places We Find’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Wouldn't you prefer an elegant, flavour-packed morsel to a bloated bucketful of stodge? Jo Marchant on science writing: 'You need a burning curiosity' 2013-03-13T07:00:01Z

That’s clearest on the elegant “Better Off,” a letter to someone fighting for the strength to leave a bad relationship. New Music: Albums From Aloe Blacc, Sara Evans and Ambrose Akinmusire 2014-03-10T20:57:47Z

“It is assured and elegant, like a bird,” he wrote of a pterosaur in flight, “and not at all reminiscent of bats.” Exhibition Review: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs 2014-04-10T14:00:02Z

But this was an uncommonly elegant and lucid Rachmaninoff Third. Music Review: Atlanta Symphony at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-06T22:13:48Z

“Bunny wanted everything to be comfortable and elegant — or, more like comfortable and inviting,” Mr. Rich said. Back From the Dark, With a Fairy Godmother?s Help 2011-03-31T21:07:01Z

When Game of Thrones fans first met the Moon Door, it was described as an “elegant” solution to the problem of administering justice. The Physics of the Game of Thrones "Moon Door" 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

This set up the finale's high drama from the piano, answered by the cello, as the dialogue became an elegant trade of flourishes. The Romantic, the modern at Seattle chamber-music fest 2012-07-24T21:01:07Z

Mr. Lage seeks communion freely and easily; his playing is elegant and refined, but he’s also happy in the company of rougher improvisers. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

It's not about how many things you can juggle, it's about how you can make a simple move look elegant and nice - or quirky and stupid. Glastonbury: 11 acts to watch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Like a demented version of Hitchcock's "Vertigo," Pedro Almodóvar's elegant yet horrific "The Skin I Live In" is about a man who obsessively transforms his prey into an image of perfection. 'The Skin I Live In' is artful but repellent 2011-11-03T19:56:04Z

When I showed up at the same group the next week, a tall, elegant Toastmaster with a European accent greeted me, “Ah, you’re back after sharing your personal life so bravely last week.” Joining Toastmasters to Overcome a Fear of Public Speaking 2013-12-24T21:13:15Z

It was given a crystalline and elegant rendition here. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Notes as Delicate as a Crane’s Legs 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

But look closely and you will see previous colours showing through like an old fresco, as well as the elegant drawing that underpins it all, hazily visible beneath the surface. Thomas Scheibitz – review 2013-07-26T15:00:00Z

The rustic but elegant dining room bordering Kalorama was the first restaurant in the country to be certified organic, inspiring a generation of chefs to shop locally for high-quality ingredients. Organic pioneer Nora Pouillon plans to retire, sell her eponymous restaurant 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

At a time when designer collections were unveiled in elegant locations centered around the Louvre, Margiela was enamored with grittier destinations such as the Salvation Army. Perspective | Martin Margiela did himself a favor: He anticipated fashion’s future — and its failures 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Unfolding in an impoverished neighborhood in Mexico City, this disturbing debut paints social decay with bold, elegant strokes and dizzying camera angles. | 'We Are What We Are': ?We Are What We Are?: They Are What They Eat 2011-02-18T01:25:20Z

Some of the simplest fixes are the most elegant. Perspective | The low-key, high-style approach to crafting gardens for the stars 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Watching this elegant, evocative, self-referential hall-of-mirrors premiere, it was hard not to look back and think of Hegel’s curse: “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” 'Mad Men' Recap: Don Draper's Back in Style 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

In an airy, elegant bar just around the corner from his flat in Edinburgh's east end, Scott Hutchison is recalling Frightened Rabbit's formative American adventures. Frightened Rabbit: 'We've gone back to brutal honesty' 2013-01-24T17:24:27Z

And so does the dining room, which is roomier and more elegant than the words “noodle bar” might suggest. Instant Korean Ramen, Made the Hard Way 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Two elegant, typically Balinese buildings remain, one set dramatically in the middle of a pond, as if it were a ship connected to the shore by a sculpture-lined gangplank. Finding the Other, Cheaper Side of Bali 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

In addition to elegant food, the restaurant offers some stunning views of the harbor. A $1,000 Day in Sydney for $100 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Her work is born of a desire “to do something different and fun and not always elegant” — at least not in the traditional girly sense. Chitose Abe of Sacai: Fashion that deconstructs the familiar, intrigues the eye 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Dawn released the elegant ballad “I’d Die Without You,” which reached No. 2 on the Hot 100. Prince Be, Who Infused Rap With Mysticism, Dies at 46 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

We were in Maida Vale, an elegant enclave in West London. | Jude Law 2012-11-29T14:00:21Z

"The Swell Season," made by a trio of filmmakers and shot in elegant black and white, follows Hansard and Irglová on their two-year post-"Once" world tour. 'The Swell Season' ? elegant, intimate, honest 2011-11-10T22:19:03Z

Yet many beguiling phrases were dispatched with elegant delicacy and crisp embellishments. Critic’s Notebook: Exploring Bavaria and the Busoni International Piano Festival 2012-09-07T23:47:51Z

Clear, elegant and subtle, it is a brilliant summary of Mr. Grootens’s work. Design: Designing Books for a Digital Age 2011-01-31T01:00:03Z

The focus among professional architects is the creation of effective buildings, buildings that don’t solve every problem with hammer and nails, buildings that finesse elegant solutions to a growing list of architectural needs and necessities. Perspective | Why Trump shouldn’t be allowed to dictate how federal buildings are designed 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

“The issue seems to me to amount to whether I am really going to write in my life, or just be an elegant hack,” a distraught Updike wrote to his parents in June 1960. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z

En route, the elegant suits were swapped for a garish wardrobe of suede, leather, jerkins and scarves, the respectful world of jazz clubs for noisy rock venues. The muse who changed Miles 2010-09-04T23:05:00Z

Not only was the elegant new bridge expensive, but tourists have a habit of tripping up as they mount its irregular steps. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-19T14:34:45Z

There was a lengthy period during which his suave and elegant eye easily surpassed dramatic conviction or narrative urgency. David Thomson on Ridley Scott 2010-04-29T22:05:00Z

In these elegant prints, the motif is the message. Review | In the galleries: Artechouse’s ‘Infinite Space’ has waves of natural influences 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Inside the mood is coolly elegant, the theater’s blond wood far simpler than the opulent old Mariinsky without seeming plain. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Iolanta’ at the New Mariinsky II in Russia 2013-05-05T19:20:13Z

At its premiere on Friday at the Grand Théâtre de Provence, Kent Nagano led the orchestra and chorus of the Opéra de Lyon in a rigorously elegant performance. At This Summer’s Aix Festival, the Only Laughter Is Bitter 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

It’s an elegant idea that, in practice, is rarely satisfying. What Rutabaga Does Better Than Anyone Else 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Some mothers were dripping in jewels, real ones, and the kids drank good Champagne from elegant crystal flutes. | Closin' Up the Ritz 2011-10-31T22:23:54Z

The show’s white set is elegant in its spareness, yet appearance trumps practicality: Supertitles projected in soft white lettering on an eggshell surface look lovely, but they are not as legible as they might be. ‘Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose’s Last Tape’ at Japan Society 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Ms. Price looked elegant but not intimidatingly so in black-patterned trousers from The Kooples, a cream cashmere jumper bought at a sample sale in New York, and a vintage Cartier watch of her father’s. The Oscars Just Happened, and This Stylist … Stayed Quiet 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Männistö sang with her usual clarity and elegant lyricism, though the musical lines were sometimes a bit low for her ideal range. Thomas Dausgaard leads Seattle Symphony in another excellent Sibelius program with ‘Kullervo’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The main block, with its faintly asymmetrical facade, is entered via a bridge surmounted by an elegant high narrow arch inspired by the Propylaea entrance to the Acropolis. Newcastle's Ryder Architecture celebrates 60 years of modernism 2013-06-19T10:50:59Z

He was vivacious and charming, draped in understated European finery — including dress shoes so elegant I filed the detail away under the mental heading Interesting Character Trait. ‘Oslo’ and the Drama in Diplomacy 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

The piece, hushed and beguiling, is typical of this elegant show. Review | In the galleries: Ghostly presences at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

"Maybe those two are myself and my father," she says of the figures on the left, with that charged, elegant detachment with which so many Holocaust survivors communicate. Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

The program also included elegant interpretations of four of Purcell’s wistful Fantasias, initially composed for ensembles of three to seven viols. Music Review: Brentano String Quartet Plays Hadyn, Mozart and Bartok 2012-12-17T22:55:08Z

It doesn’t hurt that Elba, elegant and understated, makes even the goofiest lines of dialogue believable. Review: The Dark Tower Is a Fantasy That Runs Like Business as Usual 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

From his London home Beaton traveled incessantly and spent extended periods in Manhattan, where he stayed in hotel suites lavishly appointed in accordance with his own supremely elegant taste. Art Review: Cecil Beaton?s Work at Museum of City of New York - Review 2011-11-10T23:02:14Z

This wine — a blend of 70 percent merlot and 30 percent cabernet sauvignon — is plummy, spicy, herbal and elegant in the best Bordeaux tradition. In Trying Times, 20 Wines Under $20 That Revive and Restore 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

In Paris, the nightmare next door is more likely to be an elegant, worldly couple with irreproachable manners. Television Review: ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Is Remade Into a Mini-Series 2014-05-08T21:12:18Z

His publications included the garment industry trade magazine American Fabrics and the elegant, short-lived men’s fashion title Gentry — and they made him a millionaire. Television: PBS to Show Ken Burns Films on William Segal 2010-07-31T03:36:00Z

“I wake up with a Mohawk every day,” said the unfailingly elegant Carolina Herrera, but she was talking about a hairstyle more commonly known as bed head. Front Row: Guests Struggle With Costume Institute Gala’s Theme of Punk 2013-05-01T20:48:24Z

It’s an elegant visual decision, highlighting how the best stories — for children and adults alike — are experienced as real, tangible. ‘A Boy Called Christmas’ Review: Kindling the Holiday Spirit 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

By treating popular standards as secular art songs dressed up in elegant semiclassical and pop-jazz trappings by his most brilliant arranger, Nelson Riddle, Sinatra began blurring the distinctions. Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Her elegant, modestly high-necked jacket is black, her makeup is discreet and her silver hair tidy. Shirley Jones offers naked truth in new book 2013-07-22T16:48:08Z

I shoehorned that in there, but not in a very elegant way. Mark Whitaker Takes A Long Trip Home 2011-11-07T12:00:07Z

Then I resolved to de-resolve, sinking back into the film's elegant lethargy. Tron Review: Prepare for Deresolution 2010-12-16T23:00:00Z

Their shape called to mind an elegant doctor’s satchel; their brass hardware, which quickly became one of their most identifying features, was fashioned by workers who made the metal fittings on Venetian gondolas. Giuliana Camerino Is Dead at 89; Designed Coveted Handbags 2010-05-17T02:33:00Z

While the new steering column was an elegant addition to the mini-hybrids, it tended to cause stability problems. Style Invitational Week 1100: Pun & ink — tell us a mini-story that ends in a groaner

Noble, technically elegant but dismissed for 14 by those simple letters: lbw. Downton Abbey: it's just not cricket 2013-06-07T14:59:01Z

"I just thought that it was really elegant," she added. Bride wears her grandmother’s wedding dress 60 years later: 'It fit like a glove' 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

This April, during a performance in Nashville, Adams, who had discussed his annoyance at being confused with the singer Bryan Adams, performed an elegant acoustic cover of that singer’s 1984 megahit “Summer of ‘69.” Haters Gonna Hate: Listening to Ryan Adams's "1989" 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The tenor Timothy Fallon opened with carefully nuanced renditions of four Strauss songs that revealed his elegant sense of phrasing and luminous tone. Music in Review: Marilyn Horne’s Protégés in ‘The Song Continues’ 2013-01-21T22:56:40Z

I wanted to find that place in between that was glamorous and elegant and polished.” On the Runway Blog: Ivanka Trump's Turn on the Runway 2012-03-29T17:30:31Z

Jonas is equal parts liar and elegant storyteller, a survival skill acquired from his mother which he relies upon to cope with his stagnant marriage and career. 'How to Read the Air': Dinaw Mengestu's novel of the Ethiopian conflict's legacy 2010-10-13T23:09:00Z

It was all very elegant, and it wasn’t just the women. At Met Gala, Fashionistas Dress Up in Tribute 2014-05-06T02:57:58Z

The story of Gould's inspirational career and purposeful but troubled retreat from the concert platform into the recording studio is well known, but Elie's retelling is thoughtful and elegant. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z

May’s elegant, yearning guitar solo underlines the sentiment: life is hard. A Truly Perfect Thirty Seconds of Queen 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

“It’s elegant and bright, and I’d really like to own everything in it.” Will Smith Revives the ‘Fresh Prince’ at Paris Fashion Party 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

A longtime soloist with two of the most elegant feet in the business, he is parting ways with the company. American Ballet Theater Steadies Itself for Its Next Act 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

If President Obama is re-elected, we will continue to be treated to endless images of the first lady’s bare, trim, elegant arms. The Mirror: Michelle Obama and the Exposed Arm 2012-09-28T18:12:32Z

Fig skating: Instead of a garish costume, each skater wears nothing but a simple, elegant leaf. Style Invitational Week 1448: Hear, hear, it’s Limerixicon XVIII 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

A recurring theme in Kurdi’s heartbreaking tale is the elegant use of two languages. Review | After a photo of her nephew’s drowned body went viral, a Syrian woman tells the family’s story 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

“We try to get a little bit of sparkle here and there, a little bit of stretch, no splitting at the seams. Everything elegant and classy.” Dog handlers dress to impress at Westminster show 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

An elegant welcome of fish mousse and cheese puffs signals the Eve I’ve known and applauded before, but too much of what follows suggests a lesser kitchen. Buck’s, Restaurant Eve, Vermilion: Three dining guide near-misses

One night, alone on the Paris streets, an elegant 1920s Peugeot limousine pulls up and a glamorous-looking couple beckons him inside. Cannes 2011, Day 1: Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris' 2011-05-11T16:01:00Z

Supremely elegant in design and pleasant to visit, the fair is dominated by fully-priced modern and postwar art, with a shrinking representation of historic material to appeal to “crossover” buyers. At Frieze Art Week, All Eyes on the Pound 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

No lighter but perhaps more elegant were chicken ravioli, with perfectly thin skins in an old-fashioned cream sauce and a garnish of fried parsnip. Choice Tables: Four Paris Restaurants Worth a Metro Ride 2011-04-01T19:13:44Z

This elegant Spanish restaurant just off the ferry also serves several Latin-American specialties. Cuban Sandwiches, Available for Takeout and Delivery Across the City 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

All the familiar elements are here: the rolling hills and empire waistlines, the elegant manors and manners, the silent and attentive servants. ‘Emma’ Review: Back on the Manor, but Still Clueless 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

The movements are spacious, each step flowing into the next, her upper body creating elegant arcs and spirals in response to the powerful movements of her legs. An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths in ‘the Land of Discovery’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Polonsky’s accompanying illustration depicts the Franks as beggars huddled on the side of an elegant street lined with cafes and restaurants, while passers-by in fancy clothes — including the van Daans — ignore them. Anne Frank’s Diary, in Graphic Form, Reveals Its Humor 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Majestic trusses and vaulted skylights nod to the elegant traceries in Penn Station’s original concourse. Let There Be Light, and Art, in the Moynihan Train Hall 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

She was slender and elegant, with thin arms and a long neck. Finders keepers: my favourite piece of clothing 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Sporting a pinkie ring, wire-rimmed glasses and elegant black turtlenecks, Huntley remained a constant — known for his patience in dealing with divas and his ability to channel characters through his curls, waves and tresses. Broadway’s Hair Master Puts Away the Wigs 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

There’s a buzz around the halls of this elegant hotel, part Mediterranean-inspired villa, part playground for faces you might just recognize. Glorious Summer Retreats 2011-08-10T13:20:08.043Z

The first and finest of a wave of modern small-screen westerns, this elegant Elmore Leonard adaptation was stocked full of memorable characters and dizzying dialogue. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

For budding interior design nerds like myself, it evoked a more elegant life and the kind of grown-up shenanigans that might be in my future. Perspective | Decorative room dividers make an elegant comeback 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Natural scientists are regularly attracted to the challenge of inventing a new technology because of the promise of discovering a novel phenomenon with an elegant new machine. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z

There are now skin care potions that perform the same cleansing and exfoliating functions, he said, but in “a more elegant and often less irritating way.” R.I.P. Clarisonic 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Both are writing about detectives and murder investigations, but in addition to the basic, virtually primal appeal of a good mystery, both add elegant prose and psychological depth. Louise Penny’s ‘The Long Way Home’ is an artful mystery featuring Armand Gamache

“Mind Palace” is gorgeously executed, but the elegant scenes don’t provide enough narrative context. ‘Liminality’ Is Theater of the Mind That Explores the In-Between 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

In other words, they are not so elegant. In Transit: Q&A: A Mid-Priced Cruise With High-End Service 2011-01-26T22:00:01Z

I was far away from the elegant drawing rooms of Moscow, where Pierre Bezukhov sips dry Madeira wine and dines on hazel grouse. Life at One of England’s Last Tolstoyan Communes 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

He knocked down walls to accommodate his frequent dinner parties, where he presides as an elegant host while serving fried chicken and coleslaw. Mike Bloomberg deploys his billions to make a point, from a $1 million couch to a presidential campaign 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

That background informs elegant yet ominous sculptures such as “Thinking the Unthinkable,” a stainless-steel sphere, representing a hydrogen bomb’s explosive core, perched on a granite base. Review | In the galleries: An intimate panorama of video art’s variety and breadth 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Two sets of bulky yet elegant speakers finished in vintage wood sit on either side of an Italian amplifier with colorful valves and tubes that glow orange when the lights are low. Listening Clubs Tantalize Audiophiles in London 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Although large, elegant and, in the early 21st century, extremely desirable, it is not unique. Slave trader’s home, slum, des res: the stories of one house raise restless ghosts 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

The sea kingdom is serene and elegant; the earth intruders are angular and aggressive. Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean Kingdom? at City Ballet 2011-09-11T04:00:07Z

Create an elegant Christmas centerpiece with red roses surrounded by white tallow berries in silver vases made to resemble birch bark. 86 Fresh Christmas Ideas 2010-11-19T19:59:00Z

Yet even with the right things in place — shiny metallic belts, plain pony-tail hairdos and some elegant wrapped tops — this pas de deux between a designer and her desire for simplicity never took off. Special Report: Fashion: Taking the Long View 2010-10-04T18:40:00Z

The theater, now far more elegant but with its acoustics and its wood surfaces intact, reopened in 2010. ArtsBeat: For Charleston and Spoleto, It's Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up Time Once Again 2012-06-04T20:55:12Z

The owners of Saltwater Grill transformed a brew pub into an elegant eatery by converting the pub’s brewing vats into a 25,000-gallon saltwater aquarium that overlooks the dining area. Ready for Takeoff: Panama City Beach 2010-05-26T17:49:00Z

The elegant relief carving shows Tut as a warrior handily dispatching a pair of ferocious lions. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Fondest memento or memory: A picture of my grandmother wearing a flirty black dress and white hat surrounded by two suitors and looking as vivacious and elegant as always. What a Trip: Coming home to Bogota

The plot's elegant clockwork is thus set in full motion. Ruth Rendell's latest book, 'Portobello,' has all her classic traits ? and more 2010-09-01T22:43:00Z

Each level of The Aficionados, an elegant townhouse and restaurant, offers a distinctive temptation. 36 Hours in Thessaloniki 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Ward delivered an elegant but dramatic tango that featured him playing James Bond. 'DWTS': Hines Ward, Ralph Macchio bring it 2011-05-03T00:05:00Z

This is not the institution you thought you knew for its Beaux-Arts mansion, imposing research library and elegant botanical gardens, including one inspired by Suzhou, China. The Huntington Gets Hip 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

He's made elegant turbans and dramatic gaucho hats for Marc Jacobs and jaunty newsboy caps for Dior. He’s designed hats for Dior. Now, he’s created one inspired by the African American Museum. 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Quick, elegant writing, and a different style from other Young Adult books makes Unhooking the Moon an amazing read. Unhooking The Moon by Gregory Hughes - review 2012-07-27T14:00:00Z

A new book by interior designer Windsor Smith celebrates interiors that are at once elegant and practical. How to Design a Glamorous Space That’s Practical Too 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

The delight in Hamilton's writing is his clarity, enthusiasm, good humour and elegant wit. Michael Bracewell's top 10 art books 2012-06-06T10:35:15Z

The imagery is sharp, specific; the play of language elegant. With Poets Respond, Rattle gives us the news from poems 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Her delight in Bonelli's elegant Solor is quick and unforced; with his betrayal the brightness ebbs from her gaze and her dancing takes on a measured sadness. La Bayadère; Midnight Express – review 2013-04-13T23:05:26Z

But Mr. Andò flows ineffectually back and forth between the brothers, making elegant use of some Verdi but less so of Mr. Servillo. ‘Viva la Libertà,’ a Comedy Starring Toni Servillo 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Our testers called this recipe for baked scallops "easy and elegant — great dinner party fare." This easy baked scallops recipe turns out perfectly every time 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z

Clusius first wrote about tulips in his book on “most strange and elegant plants from Thrace.” Chasing Rembrandt’s Tulips on Two Wheels 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

But the scholastic throat-clearing quickly gives way to a bravura performance of storytelling, in an elegant prose style throughout that does not sacrifice intelligence for readability. Colin Dickey explores American's haunted mansions in 'Ghostland' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

There was something calm, elegant and beautiful about this collection that was less like costume than it sounds. Fashion Review: Sarah Burton Shows McQ, the Alexander McQueen Second Line 2012-02-21T18:19:33Z

In Philadelphia, the Art Alliance is housed in a mansion near the city’s elegant Rittenhouse Square. Dinner at the museum: Real meal on fine ceramics 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

The result was a evening of elegant musicianship and history lessons, with Thompson cheerfully stressing the innuendo and euphemism in seduction stories like Watkins Ale. Richard Thompson and?Philip?Pickett 2010-12-08T22:15:00Z

I think it's a bygone era where things just for the very last time seemed ordered and elegant and structured before the chaos of the two world wars. ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Damian Lewis on 'Homeland' and 'The Forsyte Saga' 2012-09-21T18:30:54Z

I was at Nubar, an elegant cafe near Harvard Square, to meet David, with whom I had been corresponding online. Seduced by a Charming Chatbot 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

From the fondant dogwood blossoms to the white satin frosting, this cake is also an elegant centerpiece for springtime receptions. Make Your Own Wedding Cake 2010-05-12T17:32:00Z

Some producers are trying to moderate the alcohol in response to market demand for more elegant, restrained wines. A wine lover’s trifecta: The right maker, a singular grape, a good price 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

In preschool, people liked proper, because it’s elegant to be that, but I like sticking to my fundamentals. The Kids Who Love ‘Frozen’ and the Parents Who Love Them 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

On one level, "Certified Copy" is exactly the kind of film it looks like -- an elegant, wistful and picturesque tale of two ships passing in the Tuscan sunlight, in which not much really happens. Best of Cannes: Kiarostami, Binoche make a "Certified Copy" 2010-05-21T23:15:00Z

"Acting is what I do with who I am," notes Walter in her engaging, forthright, often elegant book on acting, Other People's Shoes. Life's looking up, Dame Harriet 2011-01-15T12:04:01Z

Mr. Blahnik inspires this warmth by dint of his shoes and also his character, which is eccentrically patrician, starry eyed, elegant. Review: Watch Manolo Blahnik Make Famous Friends — and Shoes 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

The elegant 1986 work he’s dancing, “Divertimento,” is one of the first images visitors see in “The America That Is to Be,” an exhibition at the Frye Art Museum here that runs through Jan. 26. Can Dance Make a More Just America? Donald Byrd Is Working on It 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

On a recent Thursday evening he was wearing an elegant black overcoat — his “London coat,” he said, as opposed to his “L.A. coat,” because by Los Angeles standards it was Londonishly cold out. Lionel Richie Wants to Teach You How to Be a Real ‘American Idol’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Supporting actress nominee Naomie Harris, who co-starred in “Moonlight,” looked elegant and sleek in a white, strapless gown from Calvin Klein. Perspective | The most eye-catching red carpet look at the Oscars wasn’t a dress. It was a blue ACLU ribbon. 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

For Mr. Sadie, Mr. Jacobs’s “rough and explosive sound” was “alien to the refined and elegant age to which the music belongs.” Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z

The clothes, lent from Mexico City, are fantastically elegant, above all the rich skirts and blouses from the Oaxacan city of Tehuantepec. Frida Kahlo’s Home Is Still Unlocking Secrets, 50 Years Later 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Most visitors see it from the northwest, in Waikiki, but we were on the east side at the Kahala Hotel & Resort, an elegant oasis with the added benefit of a dolphin lagoon. Waikiki Beach is only two miles of Oahu. The rest is well worth checking out. 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The first was oblique and elegant, with the highlights a singing, soaring phrase in the opener, "This Masquerade," and a sprightly edition of Clifford Brown's "Joy Spring." Review: A restrained Keith Jarrett lets the energy rise gradually 2011-11-02T20:09:04Z

Tart apples and ripe apricots come to mind when sipping this elegant, stylish cava. 5 bottles of bubbly, all $20 or less, that promise to add holiday sparkle 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

And we marvel at the rows and rows of massive, white windmills, steely and elegant, churning slowly with languor yet still making power. An Intimate View of America, From Above 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

The Stetson & Post Block, an elegant landmark visible from Elliott Bay, was soon in the shadow of a seven-story business block across Second Avenue, named for Burke. See Seattle’s first apartment house, ca. 1883 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Part of me wishes to ridicule the dread – the sense of going "over the top" – when all that is involved is talking to 90 sympathetic people in an elegant room in Islington. Anyone got a good story ? and the nerve to tell it? 2011-01-02T00:02:03Z

It was surreal to wander utterly alone through elegant halls lined with works by El Greco and Caravaggio, Roman sculptures from the Farnese collection and 18th-century furnishings. Frugal Traveler: Naples: Must-Sees and See-What-Happens 2011-06-07T18:32:57Z

Shrubs, perennials and more than 1,400 trees outline play areas with primary-colored equipment in a landscape design that ranges from wild native prairie plantings to elegant rows of evergreens. Chicago has 3 new spaces for adults to release their inner children 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

That was an elegant choice on Alika's part and it makes the characters more rounded and unexpected. "Every Day in Kaimuki" filmmakers on questioning contentment: "Are you happy or is this just easy?" 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

My lips were pouty, plump and red, and my hair was swept into an elegant chignon. Is Paris truly the City of Romance? It all depends on who you’re with. 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Kentridge has given it his most elegant and powerful operatic treatment yet, in a production that opened on Tuesday at the Salzburg Festival and will travel to the Met in the 2019-20 season. Review: William Kentridge’s Triumphant ‘Wozzeck’ Will Come to the Met Opera 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

The décor features softly-glowing Bakelite wall sconces, which create an elegant atmosphere. Portland neo-folkies Horsefeathers offer potent show at Barboza 2012-06-11T00:34:03Z

The corrugated material once seemed integral to the artist’s rocky landscapes, but these four elegant pieces transcend their packing-box origins. Review | In the galleries: Renee Stout’s fiery visions draw inspiration from Jimi Hendrix 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Though many generations of collies would play Lassie on film and television, the first was Pal, an elegant male trained by Rudd Weatherwax. Legendary film dogs 2012-02-24T10:55:58Z

Widely known for her elegant beauty and sartorial glamour, Ms. Carroll began her professional life as a singer and continued to ply that art. Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With ‘Julia,’ Dies at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

“Use them carefully, use them sparingly. I’d much rather have them look low-key and elegant,” she says. Decorating with always-in-style stripes

Shot in black and white, with the help of several dancers, it shares the elegant but deeply disconcerting aesthetic of Man Ray’s photographs. Art Review: ‘A Disagreeable Object,’ at the SculptureCenter 2012-10-04T22:46:23Z

This is an elegant book, with something of the stylized formality of a baroque opera or one of Watteau’s paintings of a fête galante. A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

The American hornbeam is an elegant small tree with spreading branches, beechlike leaves and sinewy bark but is overlooked in favor of the more formal, upright European version. Planning your 2020 garden? You’ll want to check out the year’s Gold Medal Plants. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

These elegant vessels are decorated with lines, circles and images transferred from laser prints. In the galleries: Paintings that are both ephemeral and vivid 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The combination of Mediterranean flavors and elegant wine, this, too, I hold responsible for our table’s boisterousness that night. A New Paris Bistro Equal Parts Convivial and Tasty 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The pleasures of this elegant novel are many. Book reviews roundup: This Boy, Grace and Mary, and The Devonshires 2013-05-10T15:00:02Z

This is the perennial struggle faced by any writer whose imagined narrative audience and likely actual audience don’t fully align, but there are solutions more elegant than these. He Tried to Change the System, Then Became It 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Since the 1970s, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has recorded the human experience — what it means to be alive, and often struggling, on the planet today — in elegant, black-and-white images. Why you should see Pico Iyer interview globetrotting photographer Sebastião Salgado 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

“But she is also my mother-in-law — and she is very elegant.” Special Report: Fashion: Silver-But Not Gold for Ferre 2011-02-25T19:02:46Z

The Women’s Titanic Memorial, once an elegant fixture on the Potomac River, was removed from its original location to a much-less-trafficked spot in southwest Washington when the Kennedy Center was built. When our icons tumble 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The version offered on “Tangos,” Mr. Blades’s elegant new album, sounds courtlier and more insinuating, opening with a shimmery flourish and proceeding in a deft sashay. Trey Songz, OOIOO and Rubén Blades Release New Music 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

The setting, Silven claims, as he enters a room with elegant moldings, is his childhood home. Review: In ‘The Journey,’ Scott Silven Tours Your Mind 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

The city’s historic center, which fans out around twin lawns planted with towering elms, maintains an old New England character, with neo-Gothic towers, well-aged dive bars and working-class neighborhoods of faded but elegant Victorian houses. 36 Hours in New Haven, Conn. 2012-10-27T00:00:22Z

Scott Boswell’s elegant, deeply European restaurant in the French Quarter, where duck five ways follows the foie gras, and leads to trios of crème brûlée. Critic?s Notebook: Seeking Tastes of the ?Real? New Orleans 2010-04-28T04:17:00Z

A year later, his black-and-white still-life of a shirt collar—an elegant triumph of angles and curves, in which ordinary drifts into strange—was published in Vanity Fair. When Color Was Vulgar: Paul Outerbridge’s Avant-Gardist’s Eye 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The elegant sparkle of Ms. Lee’s work was irresistible, yet she never overplayed or outshone her colleagues in a poised, congenial account. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Plays Mozart at Alice Tully 2013-05-22T20:36:14Z

But the modern idea is to lighten up, which produced the new flexible, featherweight sole for the elegant Scribe Légère, or light, leather shoe. Special Report: Fashion: From Light to Bright 2011-06-22T16:40:23Z

He wears an elegant black sweater draped over his shoulders. Sundance festival is still making magic 2013-04-25T16:35:58Z

Then it evolved to going to some fancy event and trying to create from this refuse, like a fancy Persian rug that’s been tossed aside and now become an elegant evening gown. Jeremy Scott Is Having a Cardboard Moment 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Recipe: Candy Bar Pie Simple yet elegant, these sweet and salty confections are sure to impress your guests at a party. 25 Caramel Dessert Recipes 2010-11-19T19:59:00Z

The film’s episodes of violence erupt into a milieu defined by elegant dinners and vigorous verbal fencing matches, a world that keeps going in the aftermath of mayhem, its essential sang-froid undisturbed. Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Instead, it portrays him for what he was: an honourable, if flawed, politician with an elegant turn of phrase and strong socialist convictions. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

It's not an elegant hand, but one which impatiently gets the job done. Beyoncé, Obama, Lady Gaga – what does their handwriting say about them? 2012-10-14T16:59:02Z

“He already liked a long, elegant line and a length of phrasing, so you can see why ballet directors saw potential in the work.” Kim Brandstrup Brings ‘Jeux’ and Follows a Different Path to City Ballet 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

It’s an amusingly harebrained scheme, but there’s nothing in this moviefilm that matches the elegant social experiment of the first, which sought to explore where precisely American civility departs from morality. ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Review: More Cultural Learnings 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

During the lunch she has written on the paper tablecloth in elegant handwriting: "I always wanted." Hollywood's fickle; family ties endure 2011-03-16T21:28:00Z

Lucic, who sang Macbeth when this production was introduced in 2007, is an elegant baritone with a distinctive voice, burnished, mellow, a little earthy. A Met ‘Macbeth’ worth a trip to the movie theater 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

The mosaic of escalating violence depicted in the play takes place against a background of almost breathtaking beauty, in the elegant sets designed by Derek McLane, among his most poetic and effective work. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z

Take this creamy treat on a stroll through some of Turin’s prettiest areas, beginning at the expansive Piazza San Carlo, which is ringed with elegant Baroque buildings. 36 Hours in Turin, Italy 2012-06-28T18:55:14Z

That elegant, creamy, comforting dish can be adapted to all kinds of other short, starchy grains — including barley. Free your barley from soup and risotto it instead 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

From others it seems an elegant high-tech cousin of the Transamerica Pyramid, the chunkier building across the bay. A New Hiroshi Sugimoto Sculpture in San Francisco Reaches for Infinity 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Dameron was a composer and an arranger who also played piano—soloing modestly but landing some provocative chords behind his notable soloists, as in his quintet recording featuring his elegant composition “A Bebop Carol.” The Year’s Most Essential Jazz Reissue 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

“Dreyer’s English” not only lays down rules but offers tips for writers who want to be clear and elegant as well as correct. Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Sure of pitch and elegant in its phrasing, her modest-size voice has taken on a melancholy wistfulness. Mariella Devia Returns to New York in ‘Roberto Devereux’ 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

"My goal for this menu was just to do simple, good, elegant food with precision and excellence, taking simple things like chicken liver moose, bone marrow or a piece of fish and executing them well." Kristen Kish wins 'Top Chef: Seattle' 2013-02-28T04:35:09Z

Dior, with its full skirts and elegant appeal, appeared to be the favorite of the fashion set this year as new designer Raf Simons has made wooing the A-listers a priority. Nerves of steel and hairspray are musts for Cannes red carpet 2013-05-22T10:13:35Z

Caramel-colored leather chairs and banquettes prove both stylish and comfortable; clusters of elegant wooden lights could double as art installations. Review | On Capitol Hill, two ambitious restaurants debut from one thoughtful owner 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Folded into the elegant design are countless instructions, both exacting and poetic. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

This is a place for drinking draft Heinekens in big plastic cups, not Blue Martinis in elegant stemware; for conventional disco music, not silent, frenzied dancing to ear-piercing rock and rap. At La Perle in Paris, a Clientele Shift After Galliano 2011-09-28T15:12:46Z

Both were self-made, rail thin, high maintenance, ambitious, wealthy, elegant, social and social-climbing. | The House That Coco Built 2013-06-07T16:21:12Z

But in many others, every block or so holds out the possibility of a quick getaway to a faraway beach or an elegant urban glade. Outdoor Dining Offers Fresh Air and Fantasy to a City That Needs Both 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

What’s more, it looked better, with crystalline snowscapes and hushed hotel corridors worthy of Kubrick at his most elegant and atmospheric. The best movies of 2014: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Force Majeure,’ ‘Selma’ and more

Atmosphere A spare, elegant wine bar in the sunken space under the lobby of the museum. The Art of Flavor at Flora Bar in the Met Breuer 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

I found it a little hard myself to believe in Fredric March's elegant Vronsky, although he played the part according to all the club rules, but the rest of the acting was distinctly helpful. From the Observer archive, 6 October 1935: Greta Garbo in her element as Anna Karenina 2012-09-29T23:05:46Z

The Michel Petitjean of 1939 was described as affable and charming, while the “man I knew,” the author writes, “was certainly charming and elegant but also a little depressed and not especially amusing.” Review | When he found out his father had an affair with Frida Kahlo, an author’s investigation began 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Shopping excursions to the store are typically bisected by a break in the elegant restaurant. Much-Loved Milwaukee Tearoom Prepares for Its Last Pour 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

The house Stoppard shares with his third wife, the charming Sabrina Guinness, is exactly what you would expect: elegant, erudite, fey and library-quiet. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Taken at a slow pace, “Va, pensiero” sounded elegant and subdued, not particularly rousing. With Plácido Domingo and L.A. Opera, 'Nabucco' still has the power to provoke 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

Three shirtless workers are shown in an elegant, gilt-edged room refinishing the floor. The Kimbell captures 'Painter's Eye,' but it can't elevate Caillebotte 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

The wreath form is not only elegant and timeless — it also conveys special holiday meaning. 5 DIY holiday decorating ideas from a former White House florist 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

Robert Geddes, the transformative first dean of Princeton’s School of Architecture and an architect of elegant modernist buildings, many in New Jersey and his native Pennsylvania, died on Monday at his home outside Princeton, N.J. Robert Geddes, 99, Transformative Architecture Dean at Princeton, Dies 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

In a recent interview, the regally elegant dancer Catherine Kirk characterized the show as a “Black love sitcom,” and that’s accurate. Review: Kyle Abraham’s Theatrical Love Letter to Social Dance 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Soft and elegant, like a satin pillow for your palate. 5 celebration-worthy holiday pours 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

The rich wine was elegant rather than powerful, very much of a piece with the ’61 and ’82. A 150-Year-Old Wine and Its Descendants Reveal Their Secrets 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

But, above all, the opulent fabrics - like gold silk jacquard and rich printed lame - made this surely the most elegant collection seen since they joined the design helm in July 2011. Givenchy, Kenzo, Chloe get tough, Celine delights 2013-03-04T02:31:05Z

The stealth tacky runway trend looks intriguingly elegant in small doses. T Magazine: Marcelo Does Milan 2011-03-09T22:46:44Z

The evil overlord is an elegant and sardonic fiend somewhere on the scary scale between Ernst Stavro Blofeld and the Penguin. Review: ‘The Bone Clocks,’ by David Mitchell

Best, and least bombastic, was a febrile account of Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for Strings, with a passionate, elegant central quartet drawn from the orchestra’s principal players. Review: Planets, Tubas and Febrile Strings With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

As the band acclimatised, Iverson mingled speculative prodding and elegant long lines over Lasserson's fast walk and Williams's foaming cymbals on Just in Time, and imparted purposeful focus and harmonic ambiguity to Wayne Shorter's Juju. Ethan Iverson – review 2013-04-22T17:07:40Z

So much of the history of the Oscars is about good behavior: wearing tasteful, elegant gowns, thanking the right people when you graciously accept your statuette. Billy Porter Won the Oscars Red Carpet Before It Even Began 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

But by degrees it reveals the awful, primal strength beneath the finesse of this elegant, aged woman. Theater Review: ?Elective Affinities? With Zoe Caldwell - Review 2011-12-03T03:00:04Z

It was "an elegant wooden rowing skiff," made by a famous boat builder in Montana. Kids, bikes, veal balls: Locals recall best gifts they ever got 2012-12-25T06:20:04Z

It becomes no more or less elegant or funny looking. Abroad: Testing Art for Authenticity at London?s National Gallery 2010-07-12T16:06:00Z

Pete Rock's drum programming had a really natural feel, like jazz; it sounds elegant but tough. Musicians and their obsessions 2010-12-09T21:46:00Z

Built at the very end of the 19th century, it is impossibly elegant and spare, all pale gray stone arches, with almost no ornamentation aside from small, jagged, brightly colored stained-glass windows. Lost in Jerusalem 2012-01-13T15:42:55Z

“Golf should be something beautiful, elegant, something people aspire to play eventually,” Trump told Fortune magazine earlier this year. Inside the fabulous world of Donald Trump, where money is no problem 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

They touch on his major themes, forming an elegant introduction for new viewers. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Inconspicuous and all the more elegant for it, “After You” is a reaction against much contemporary ballet, with its frequent sight of whacked legs, meaningless gestures and partnering that turns women into brainless machines. Review: Choreography Is the Star at American Ballet Theater 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

This is a quibble with a staging that, in general precisely, aligns with an elegant yet savage work. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

Douglass was now a major political figure, with an elegant hilltop home in Washington, D.C. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Horn’s elegant novel explores how Rachel’s immortality impedes her ability to be fully, truly alive. New in Paperback: ‘The Recovering,’ ‘Love and Ruin’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

He was, as always, a gentleman: elegant, gracious and more than kind to a young fan who stood humbled in front of his hero. Ennio Morricone Was More Than Just a Great Film Composer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

Located at 7,700 feet at the top of the Purcell Mountains, Eagle’s Eye is an elegant restaurant with exposed beams, hand-carved tabletops and custom stonework. Four ways to ski British Columbia’s legendary powder highway 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

He dressed the famous and the powerful in sophisticated and elegant designs and was the designer of choice for Hollywood stars. A look back at legendary de la Renta 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

It was more fitful than elegant; in “Prelude,” set to ominous music by Galen Bremer, Ms. Zuerner was choppy and emphatic: a body turning into a storm. ‘Light House’ Keeps Dancers and Audience Moving 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

The energy in St. Mark’s fairly smoldered as soon as they strutted their stuff in and only intensified as Mr. Ninja wound his delicious limbs in archly elegant formations. Dance Review: It?s Vaudeville Without the Tomatoes 2011-02-05T00:03:32Z

Pair with a lightly sweetened vanilla custard for an easy, elegant dessert. Everything you need to know about tangy, floral loquats 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

Because of the familiar setting, there was something déjà vu about the display, however elegant and intriguing the individual pieces. Chanel: Vintage for Today? 2012-07-03T17:53:07Z

It's a powerful, visually elegant picture from first-time director Dean Wright. 'For Greater Glory': a bloody, inspiring religious fight in '20s Mexico 2012-05-31T20:17:11Z

They’re lovely, but some seem too relaxed after the rigorously elegant main courses. Le Coucou Pays Rich Homage to Old-School French Cuisine 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Venturing over the top only in a nightmare sequence, Strickland builds a sensual ambience through inventive visuals, a rich soundtrack that includes field recordings of crickets, and no nudity but plenty of elegant lingerie. 'The Duke of Burgundy' a mesmerizing sexual thriller 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Ford’s epilogue, delivered in elegant diction by Ms. Fouéré, cites various possible reactions to the play, ranging from “This was flat” to “ ’Twas pretty.” Theater Review: In ?The Broken Heart,? Tainted Love, Onstage at the Duke 2012-02-14T23:28:52Z

Its fantasy-world atmosphere of elegant decay is like nowhere else in Europe. Take a piece of Venetian history home in masks, glass and lace 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

These are high quality, elegant brands, but they’re small with a local flavor. Surfacing: Where Puccini Might Shop in Rome 2010-02-25T18:02:00Z

There were no surprises here, just gracious and elegant playing. Music Review: The Orchestra of St. Luke?s at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-20T23:06:06Z

He even manages a kind of poetic jingoism, where nearly every criticism of the United States is mere preface to an elegant and spirited defense. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The book that resulted from that trip, “Goodbye to a River,” established Mr. Graves as a giant in Texas letters and one of the nation’s more elegant prose stylists. John Graves, Lauded Author in Texas, Dies at 92 2013-08-01T19:02:28Z

When he walked into Stamp’s pub, I followed, and found the high-ceilinged, elegant room full of people like him — which is to say, people very much like me. Lost in Ireland 2010-10-22T21:19:00Z

Moments of startling linguistic play disrupt Jackson’s elegant, semiformal style. In Protest or Celebration, Four Poets Evoke a Sense of Endings 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Here is the blanket letter of reference from Lou Harrison, written in his elegant calligraphy, expressing his support for this young Alaska composer “in whatever he chooses to do.” Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Here’s the thing: In response to this wonderfully intricate mousetrap we inhabit, I propose, laughably enough, the cultivation of “enough,” a concept as elegant in its simplicity as it is revolutionary in its implications. The case for “good enough”: Forget striving–our happiness depends on being satisfied with less 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

In China, he rediscovered the elegant simplicity of Ming-era furniture and design. How Asian art came to America: ‘The China Collectors’ 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

She began publishing elegant piano works and affecting songs, including a hit, “Ecstasy,” which eventually had over 1,000 performances. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

A gerbera, poppy and lily all took shape in elegant dresses, alternating with shorter but fuller ones in the shapes of flower buds and a skirt of red roses with an off-the-shoulder draped white top. Biker ballerinas and flowers strut down Moschino's Milan catwalk 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The simulation shows how the center, built as part of a luxury condo development at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 110th Street, is expected to be transformed into an elegant white-walled space. Africa Center Looks to Close Fund-Raising Gap, and Open Its Doors 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

In short, his was a modern, crisp and elegant approach that served these little bonbons well. Long-neglected music gets a fresh L.A. Phil spin at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Soaring ceilings, arched windows and elegant golden lighting define the space, entered through a long bar, with a wraparound dining room, all designed by Roman and Williams. Veronika at Fotografiska Comes Into Focus 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

By contrast, flaunting elegant evidence of labor intensive fabrication by hand adds a forceful layer of demanding concentration. Douglas Tausik Ryder's curious wood sculptures at Jason Vass Gallery 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Viola Davis won best actress and continued her run of seemingly off-the-cuff elegant and touching speechifying. The Carpetbagger: Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams and a Game of Musical Chairs 2012-01-13T16:23:12Z

The result is the sort of artful twisting of Caribbean comfort food that characterizes this elegant restaurant, which opened in April. On St. Croix, a Restaurant Twists Caribbean Classics 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Deep brown, soulful eyes, elegant features and a truthful, caring sincerity in her tone. Russell Brand: what I made of Morning Joe and Question Time 2013-06-28T19:06:09Z

For within a handful of years, Stravinsky was pursuing an ironic, detached and elegant neoclassical aesthetic, which initially bewildered his fans as much as his detractors. How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 2013-05-29T06:00:00Z

It is a simple but elegant piece that highlights the impossibility of fully comprehending the alien consciousness of an animal. Animate/Inanimate: TarraWarra Museum of Art – review 2013-07-16T03:06:57Z

It’s not the most elegant of interfaces, and the quality of the videos varies, but it is free. App Smart: Apps for the Well-Groomed Man - App Smart 2012-06-27T22:00:32Z

From 1970 to 1980, his father was director of the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., an elegant mosque on Embassy Row. T Magazine: The Gift of Reconciliation 2010-12-04T19:00:00Z

Ms. von Boehm likes that Mr. Maxwell is already creating his own signature — elegant yet slightly graphic. Nicole Kidman’s Strategy: Never Play It Safe 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

In the origins of the movie, unlike Mata Hari, she is a rather pristine, almost elegant young maiden sent off on an arranged marriage to a madman. Oliver Stone picks 5 films about strong women 2012-07-03T18:48:09Z

For my money, the Old-Fashioned is the elegant apex of these four elements' harmonious combination. How to make a Rye Old-Fashioned, a classic 3-ingredient drink (plus ice) 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

In green pajamas, I rushed through the elegant lobby of the Westin hotel near Seattle and followed the sound of pop music to a large, dim room, with balloons, streamers and sparkly confetti. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

The contents of his elegant Tite Street home — roughly 2,000 books, all the furnishings, even the children’s toys — were sold at a bankruptcy auction for derisory sums. Review | How Oscar Wilde evolved from poet and playwright to symbol of martyrdom and individualism 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

But the watch still looks elegant and sophisticated, something women really appreciate.” Special Report: Watches: Jaeger-LeCoultre?s Reverso Earns Place in the Hall of Fame 2011-11-25T14:59:50Z

He composed some beautiful ballads, and he was an elegant nostalgist who wrote longingly, though also knowingly, about the mists of time and loss. Dave Frishberg, Writer of Songs Sardonic and Nostalgic, Dies at 88 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

The colours are muted but gorgeous, and while the people of Warley are all pale as alabaster, they look more elegant than ill. TV review: Room at the Top; Doomsday Preppers 2012-09-26T21:00:02Z

He spent his earliest years exploring their large, elegant apartment just south of Berlin’s Tiergarten. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z

He reminded me of an elegant bird – a heron, perhaps, or a flamingo. Paul Bhattacharjee obituary 2013-07-18T14:53:53Z

“Our affiliates are in possession of an elegant solution, so elegant it may be optimal, to the world’s most vexing problem,” Glassman says, “and that’s chronic disease.” Mr. CrossFit vs. Big Soda: A profane fitness guru’s wonky war with the soda industry 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

The historian and the critic in him are in elegant synchronicity. Review: ‘James Merrill: Life and Art,’ a Literary Biography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

An elegant woman with short blond hair, she swept me up in her silver S.U.V. A Family Returns to Montana ‘Ruts’ and a Million-Dollar View 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

He wears a number of very long, elegant coats. Star Trek Into Darkness: how it was made, by the people who made it 2013-05-11T05:00:00Z

For more elegant dining, there are the Rock Bank Restaurant, the Laurent-Perrier Champagne Bar and the Seafood & Champagne Restaurant. In Transit Blog: The Chelsea Flower Show Opens in London 2012-05-18T21:00:18Z

He got down with the kids and opened egg after egg, whooping when he found some elegant, complicated assembly kit and casting aside any keyrings or character figurines. The parent trap: art after children 2010-08-01T20:30:00Z

It’s elegant and tough — a chapter called “The Critic and the Thought Leader” is particularly brilliant — but it never shades into contempt. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

An elegant hotel in a renovated farmhouse with its own orange and olive groves. Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

The rest is the guilty consciences and purred recriminations of the survivors, and the viewer is left wishing for a whole movie with the elegant woman who had a last kiss before the mirror. 'Titanic' Star Gloria Stuart Dies at 100 2010-09-29T08:55:00Z

With an elegant bottle, spare but pretty label, and iridescent pink color, this rose is nearly irresistible. Two $10 rosés to help you toast the onset of summer 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Annabel has to navigate the day as her mother, which she does gleefully, in an elegant velvet pants suit, eating macaroni for breakfast. Beyond 'Freaky Friday': An Appreciation of Mary Rodgers 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Byrne, 32, hadn’t necessarily planned the long gap after her 2017 breakthrough, “Not Even Happiness,” an elegant and emotionally astute album that brought her critical acclaim. How Julie Byrne’s Astral Folk Music Took Flight 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

This is the Prokofiev who wrote the “Classical” Symphony, putting his modern twist on harmony, looking back and writing a very elegant, almost Mozart-like work. A Flutist Steps Into the Solo Spotlight 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

It's the simplest drink, yet the most elegant. 15 best champagne cocktail recipes to elevate the everyday 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

“It had to be dark, stirred, bitter and a little strong,” said Leo Robitschek, the head bartender at the elegant restaurant Eleven Madison Park, noting that Mr. Renner played a tormented, tormenting hothead. The Tipsy Diaries: A Toast to the Nominees, With Drinks They Inspired 2011-02-24T15:56:45Z

Elaine Ford, who wrote spare, elegant novels about quiet lives and thwarted aspirations, died on Sunday at her home in Topsham, Me. Elaine Ford, Writer of Spare, Detailed Novels, Dies at 78 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

An easy, elegant writer, he studs his narrative with affectionate family anecdotes and thumbnail sketches of world leaders and colleagues. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

I’ll miss her elegant beehive that tasted like lemon meringue pie. A new, young chef brings the drama at Mirabelle 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Its mysterious radiance verges on the sublime, a sensation heightened by elegant lighting design from Ji-Youn Chang. Music Review: Light and Color in an Undulating Cloud 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z

For Mr. Khubani, her caring and elegant manners sealed the deal. Field Notes: Parental Involvement Can Help in Choosing Marriage Partners, Experts Say 2013-01-18T21:31:10Z

These are both skillful, elegant, short virtuosos: the challenge for them is to prevent their sheer prowess and charm from seeming bland. Dance Review: Music as a Gallant Ballet Partner 2011-02-03T22:30:10Z

Men and women practise what is known as a “walking marriage” – an elegant term for what are essentially furtive, nocturnal hook-ups with lovers known as “axia”. The kingdom of women: the Tibetan tribe where a man is never the boss 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

In front of me is an elegant woman with long, blond hair and soft features. Me, myself and I 2011-01-15T00:04:05Z

A powerful, elegant history of the influential paper. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

But when Nikki meets him after trailing him to his fancy hotel, his elegant perfidy soon fades in the face of larger, out-and-out treachery. He’s a Murderer, a Stalker, a Creep — and an Entertaining Narrator 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

In this elegant atmosphere, Dan Barber aims to serve more than simply a great meal: His goal is to offer you food for thought that will linger long after the flavors have become mere memories. Where Should You Eat in New York? Go to These Favorite Spots 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Physically, with its monuments, statues and radiating avenues, Washington retains the elegant Parisian look assigned to it upon its creation by the French-born architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant. | D.C's Dinnertime Diplomacy 2011-11-23T23:08:15Z

As Duke Ellington, Legend jolts the sketch to life with a few bars of an elegant, completely incongruous cafe-jazz cover of the rap anthem “Big Rings,” written, he says, by “my brother, Drake Ellington.” Review: ‘Sherman’s Showcase’ Tests Whether It’s OK to Laugh 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Within the images, there were some photographs of older men dressed in cozy cardigans advertising a list of the most elegant wines for Father's Day. Where are the "wine dads"? How gendered alcohol merchandise speaks to inequity in domestic labor 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z

Luhrmann’s main challenge was either to find a visual equivalent for Fitzgerald’s elegant prose — the open secret of the book’s staying power — or to bend the material to his own exotic strengths. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age 2013-05-09T18:30:54Z

Winsome is the way to be in this broad yet elegant musical comedy, rebranded as “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella” when it debuted on Broadway in 2013. ‘Cinderella,’ being what it wants to be 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Yet the elegant Mr. Tharaud’s version, at once probing and impetuous, is exceptional. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

And while the finished product looks really elegant, especially after a final sprinkle of cocoa powder, you don't need any special baking tools. Make Giada De Laurentiis' luscious zuccotto, a frozen cake with a whipped chocolate filling 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

The plot is direct: Is the awkward heiress Catherine Sloper genuinely loved by the elegant but poor suitor Morris Townsend? Review | Rich acting pays off in ‘The Heiress,’ a surprisingly timely classic at Arena Stage 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

It is simply a dance, crafted from the elegant layering of patterns and shapes in space, like a pen-and-ink drawing sketched in real time. From Minnesota, the sure, swift footing of ‘Stripe Tease’ 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

I think he said, “No, I want her to be elegant and beautiful.” Q&A: Silver Linings Playbook’s Bradley Cooper and David O. Russell 2012-11-15T16:00:55Z

Artichoke Pickups are satisfying like hot artichoke dip, but much more elegant to serve. These two super-simple artichoke appetizer recipes are perfect for the holidays — or this weekend 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z

Brave and indefatigable in war zones and disaster areas, Ms. Curry looked gung-ho and elegant no matter how bad the conditions. The TV Watch: Ann Curry’s Tearful Goodbye From ‘Today’ 2012-06-28T21:30:38Z

Here, chef expertise meets the chicken part prized for its flavor — and the result is surprisingly simple and elegant. Make skillet chicken that’s company-worthy 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

They delight me with their elegant and distinct design, with depictions of intricately shaped maple trees and dazzling silk kimonos and the I-know-something-you-don’t-know gaze of the women wearing them. An hour from packed Kyoto, Nara is an enlightening overnight, including cordial deer 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

He has a Welsh accent and an elegant manner. At the Kitchen’s Spring Gala, John Cale and Lawrence Weiner Inspire and Provoke 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Some people meet the passing years with an elegant defiance. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z

Emre prefers a relatively lean but elegant annotated edition, resolutely focused on explicating the work’s meaning and mysteries. Review | Virginia Woolf’s novels once left me cold. A new book about ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ changed my mind. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

It’s an elegant, melancholic affair and I liked the way Eisenberg’s hero – initially installed as a wide-eyed innocent – actually turns out to be more venal and less likable than Carell’s wheeler-dealer. Cannes 2016 week one report: surreal scenes at the Palais 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Designed specifically for the iPad, it is elegant, simple and beautiful. Mirror's Edge 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

There is a curious, sometimes frustrating reticence in Mr. Fleischner’s invariably elegant work, which often involves walls, as in large, shadowy, black-and-white photographs of flat surfaces that verge on pure abstraction. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z

Aloof, elegant and always clean, they radiate Buddha-like equanimity and spiritual superiority. Review: ‘Life of Cats’ Spotlights a Centuries-Old Fascination in Japan 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

They’re a reminder that dim sum at its best is not just elegant, but boisterously flavorful, too. Balanced Soup Dumplings, and Much More, at 3 Times 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

There’s unquestionably something elegant, even graceful about the way they drift and plummet. My trapeze-flying adventure: Better than an orgasm 2013-03-16T20:00:00Z

Mr. Hall designed the most fabulous maids’ costumes, adorned with lace, pretty aprons and elegant caps, just for them. Peter J. Hall, Costumer for Opera, Theater, Dies at 84 2010-06-10T05:00:00Z

Designed by the supercool Manifold Architecture Studio, the space is modeled after an elegant townhouse, complete with marble tabletops and sheepskin throws. | What’s Happening off the Runway During New York Fashion Week 2014-02-05T20:45:30Z

The results, both elegant and tickling, are as definitive as we are likely to see anytime soon. 'You Never Can Tell' at A Noise Within: A buoyant revival of George Bernard Shaw's comedy 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Helen Dunmore in the Times praised Pulse by Julian Barnes: "While the writing is as clear, as wry, dry and elegant as ever, there is something turning beneath its surface." Critical eye - reviews roundup 2011-01-15T00:05:52Z

And who loved a sack suit more than the elegant political radicals of the early 1960s? Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z

Made with old-vine fruit harvested a month earlier than most wineries pick and aged only in old wood, the wine is an elegant statement of the way wine was made a half-century or more ago. Their goal: Wines that taste more like Chile and less like everywhere else 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Her companion is casual but elegant in his dark trousers, white shirt and ascot. Review: ‘Hannibal,’ by Thomas Harris 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Across a balcony in Athens, a grounded sea captain and a grieving academic spend summer nights sharing beers and stories of heartbreak in Bakopoulos’s elegant, atmospheric second novel. New & Noteworthy, From French Pancakes to a Bipartisan Road Trip 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

The cruel twists and turns of the fitness world: once, you were meant to be lean, limby, elegant, perhaps a ballet dancer. How to get strong this year: 'I worry I might actually pass out' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

She flops dramatically into bed, defies her mother’s wishes to marry, says “dude,” and throws a rager with elegant ham slices when her parents are away. Assessing the Apple TV+ new series, from "The Morning Show" to "For All Mankind" 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

As the two embark on a chaste romance, Renée visits a hairdresser and emerges looking severely elegant. | 'The Hedgehog': Behind the Prickliness Lies a Generous Heart 2011-08-18T23:17:46Z

Today, the elegant theatre, with its soaring ceilings, exposed brick walls, and red velvet curtains ,hosts largely local line-ups spanning genres from acoustic Americana to hip-hop, as well as the occasional burlesque revue.• Top 10 live music venues in Seattle 2013-05-24T23:10:00Z

The 62-seat room with an open kitchen is at once rustic and elegant, with bare wood and brick walls against marble, blue velvet, moss-green leather and Art Deco lights. Da Toscano Opens, From the Former Chef of Perla 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Giorgio Armani explained that the veils were used to convey mystery and that his idea of a typical evening was “not too important but still precious.. like an elegant cocktail”. Colors can chase away the blues, says Giorgio Armani 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

“I began getting jewelry when I was 3 months old,” she said, looking easily elegant in wool slacks and a cashmere turtleneck. Patricia Kluge’s Third Act Is Sparkly 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

The three began meeting on their own to perfect their sound, and when Ahmet Ertegun, president of Atlantic Records, heard their elegant three-way vocal braiding, he signed them to his label. David Crosby, Mainstay of Two Classic Rock Bands, Dies at 81 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Ms. Craigie is elegant and blithe, Ms. Hanna incisive and wry, Ms. Watson just a bit wicked. Broadway’s ‘Aunties’ Enjoy Their Downtime 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

He was an imposing figure: tall, handsome, elegant and self-possessed. How Vernon Jordan became a one-of-a-kind Washington presence 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

“They were beautiful, they were elegant, they were seasoned and,” he said, pausing to laugh, “they could get visas. I got the best of all worlds. I got a company that’s gorgeous.” DanceAfrica Celebrates Rwanda and a ‘Living Sense of Grace’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Ashley Gula, mother of a 1- and 3-year-old, doesn’t get much time to relax in the elegant sitting room of her Alexandria home. Is it possible to have children and an elegant home? This family does. 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

On YouTube you can see videos from scientists showing robots folding laundry, performing elegant dances, blinking in confusion and smiling in greeting. In ‘Robot & Frank,’ Technology of the Not-So-Distant Future on Display 2012-08-12T02:53:01Z

Its two-story, elegant bookcases are filled with carefully arranged volumes, many bound in embossed leather. The Baumans, Sellers of Really, Really Rare Books 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

The scene shifts to an elegant Washington dinner party in a mansion on Foxhall Road. Allan Topol’s ‘The Washington Lawyer’ abounds with Beltway skullduggery 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

Her style was the very definition of elegant refusal. Perspective | JFK Jr. and Carolyn showed us the right way to be famous for being famous 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

He had an apartment at the Carlyle hotel in New York, impossibly elegant but shambolic, grand but somewhat neglected. The Crown writer Peter Morgan on William Goldman: 'He was just a sublime storyteller' 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

Knowing him as a colleague during this profound and elegant silence made you feel like an archeologist on the brink of an extraordinary find. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z

That will translate into elegant wines with ripe flavors and moderate alcohol levels, about 14 percent or less. 2014 Mid-Atlantic wine harvest a ‘classic’

This is a knotty little strategy game, as elegant and carefully calibrated as any of the board-game greats. The Best Video Games of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Zimmerman's narrative framework may provide sufficient excuse to revisit hit tunes, but its basic structure is flimsy -- more a cardboard box than the elegant scaffolding required for the Brothers' lapidary music. 'That Lovin' Feelin' ': Jukebox musical plays like a love song to the Righteous Brothers 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

In reality, though, female factory workers sought to remain elegant, accessorizing coveralls, blouses and skirt suits with brooches, necklaces and earrings — as did most wartime-era working women. The Great War, and Great Change for Women 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Walling is both star and morphing other, warping breathy harmonies and siren miasmas into elegant cyborg operas. Gazelle Twin: The Entire City ? review 2011-07-14T22:59:01Z

With science, logic, and experience, Szalavitz debunks old, moralistic ideas and replaces them with elegant new ones. Addiction is a learning disorder: Why the war on drugs is useless, AA undermines treatment, and addiction studies can learn a lot from autism 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

This was a new Tina, polished, spiritual, with a devastatingly elegant repossession of image and voice. Tornado. Treasure. There Was Nobody Like Tina Turner. 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

At its most beautiful and elegant formulation, it is very inspiring. Polygamy, progressivism and the real history of Mormon feminism: “Women who joined this movement were gender radicals” 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

He hasn’t had a movie in theaters since the elegant, smart political thriller “The Statement,” eight long years ago. A Director of Ideas With Decades of Them 2011-05-22T01:13:01Z

But even those elegant after-dark dresses, tinged by fire, had a sweet melancholy. Fashion Review: Sarah Burton Shows McQ, the Alexander McQueen Second Line 2012-02-21T18:19:33Z

Despite its Larkinesque fatalism, the book’s elegant, subtle, almost counterintuitive finishing note suggests that mothers are perhaps luckier than others because at least they/we sometimes experience a temporary easing of their/our yearning. What Do Mothers Want? And Will They Know It When They Find It? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

I was worried because there’s a song by Smog about 17 push-ups or 37 push-ups, and it was sounding a little Smog to me, though it’s a little more elegant. Stephen Malkmus stares into the "Mirror" 2011-08-22T23:01:00Z

It is a safe bet that Mrs. Obama, who has looked elegant wearing Mr. Wu’s streamlined clothes, will not venture into this shadowy, shady world of revealing and concealing flesh. Next Summer? Tough vs. Tender 2012-09-09T17:05:31Z

Greenwell, whose 2016 “What Belongs to You” established a new bar for literary fiction with its sinuously elegant prose, returns with a set of stunning vignettes about a young gay man’s experiences in Sofia, Bulgaria. The 10 books to read in January 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

It’s a subtler, more elegant and personal collection, threaded throughout with chocolate. Seasonal Desserts That Surprise 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

An excerpt from Greenwalt Murphy’s “Tethered Apparitions” — a stunner of a duet, mixing gymnastic strength with elegant form — was far too brief. Coriolis Dance Collective celebrates its fifth anniversary 2013-05-06T20:43:57Z

By night, he posed and crafted elegant portraits of Harlem’s dead in their coffins. T Magazine: Harlem Revisited 2011-02-04T14:00:12Z

Click to see more images of the elegant space. Step Inside Linda Pinto's Luxurious Parisian Apartment 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The musical director and pianist Joseph Thalken’s arrangements for a sextet that included two strings were light but elegant. Review: A Side of Richard Rodgers Not Often Seen 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

More famous is their work together on Wright’s adaptation, two years earlier, of “Pride and Prejudice,” which opens with an elegant piano solo redolent of the Classical era, “Dawn.” For This Classical Piano Star, a Detour Is Business as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

"The goal was to create an elegant, free-flowing space," says Citterio, "and to provide the feeling of being at one with nature." Turkish Delight 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

The “Chorros” works receive an elegant backup here from earlier and later pieces, some of which use iron mesh as an everyday grid. Review: ‘Gego: Autobiography of a Line’ Highlights a Sculptor’s Kinetic Work 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

He approaches the opening of the Sonata in E flat like a consummate dancer — lithe, elegant and attentive. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Filmmaking does not get much more elegant and expressive than this, yet “Hurry Sundown” is ultimately not a satisfying film. Video: Late Preminger, the Un-Swinger 2011-05-13T23:13:01Z

About to attend a party to promote the film, which opens Christmas Day, she now was outfitted in an elegant dress and looked very much like one of the most striking women in the world. Angelina Jolie found Louis Zamperini of 'Unbroken' inspiring 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Like all of the series’s best episodes, it functions as both fantastic tale and elegant metaphor, searching out the limits of language. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

True, this album has plenty of kid-friendly instrumentation — accordion, softly elegant guitar, and what sounds like a penny whistle — but it’s no stroll to nursery rhyme heaven. Country Times: Songs to make a summer playlist sing 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Dancing in the first and third pieces, she remains calmly virtuosic and elegant. Review: BalletNext Takes Risks in ‘Baroque’d’ 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Gehry was not the obvious choice to design an expansion for the elegant Beaux Arts institution, which is marked by grand columns and golden sandstone. Gehry redesign of art museum yields more space 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

There is also a stunning bar and cafe, again designed by him, including chunky mid-century furniture, an elegant spiral staircase and curved wooden bar. Lanzarote’s beautiful cactus garden 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

The work in Reed’s “Platforms” transforms unwanted stuff into elegant raw-wood sculptures. In the galleries: ‘Spring Solos’ at Arlington Arts Center 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Fantastic natural hot-springs site where mineral pools spread calcium carbonate on rocky cliffs, turning it into what looks like puffy cotton — and transmuting it into elegant travertine limestone. Take a budget-friendly bus tour of Turkey 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Destined to become one of your favorite weeknight dishes, the second dish, spaghetti al limone, a creamy yet bright lemon pasta from the cookbook author Marlena Spieler, is simple and elegant. Pulled From the Past: Easy, Delicious Recipes for 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

This time the result is a return to the classic aesthetic of slim and elegant wristwatches. Special Report: A Cut Above: Watches: Auction Houses Benefit From Renewed Chinese Passion for Pocket Watches 2011-03-25T17:01:17Z

At an annual mother-daughter holiday tea, a mixture of orange juice, cranberry juice and champagne is ladled from a tall punch bowl into elegant champagne flutes rather than the usual small cups. 5 old-school table accessories get hip for the holidays 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

There was a man who bought a drawing, he was very elegant, an Afrikaner. Talking with the porn-inspired artist whose work we mostly can’t show you 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

This transformative ride inspired her to consider replicating its elegant and delicate lines in sugar. A brief history of royal icing string work 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

The film’s elegant gadgetry includes a time machine. Movie Review: ‘The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013’ Anthology 2013-01-31T22:57:57Z

And again: "'You'd better open the door, you ----' he answered, addressing me by some elegant term that I don't care to repeat." Letters: Wuthering remarks 2011-04-03T23:05:07Z

An elegant evocation of corrosive loneliness, “The Stranger” is the debut single from Ingrid Andress, a young singer with mild country inclinations but greater loyalty to the female singer-songwriters of the 1990s. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey Finds Love in a Hopeless Place 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Emme Parsons, a new footwear designer, specializes in elegant sandals that suit the workday commute as much as the night life. Too Cool to Feel the Heat 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

This Dior collection was beautiful, elegant, sparky in the taut tailoring of the riding clothes and luscious in the swishing skirts. 2010-01-26T04:40:00Z

Nothing like this existed in Mexico City when I was a child, and although I later grew up going to elegant restaurants, Pujol stands in a class of its own even today. My Mexico City is everyone’s now 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Sit at the elegant tables set on the deck or below on the sand and enjoy live music, cocktails and a gastronomic menu at the beach prepared by Chef Laurent Chabert. In France, Narbonne takes a turn in the international spotlight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The image is elegant: this man tethered to his biography, ensnared, nourished. Review: Ali Moini’s ‘Lives’ Tracks an Artist’s Personal History 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

Also, even though the scale of the event was overwhelming, it was less elegant than earlier concert performances where he communed with his mother’s spirit. Kanye West’s ‘Donda’ Era, on a Chaotic Stage 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

She’s the owner of the Catering Company of Washington, based in an elegant townhouse downtown, where she presides over an upscale vegan dinner party on Friday nights. Where (and what) you should be eating when you want to splurge 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

And it embodies an elegant and melancholy paradox: What looks like tourism is really the pursuit of truth and beauty, and vice versa. Review: In Eugène Green’s ‘La Sapienza,’ a Search of Ideals of Civilization 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

La Cave, an elegant hideaway lounge for a glass of wine with hors d’oeuvres and desserts will open downstairs at Bistro Pierre Lapin in the West Village. New Restaurants to Fill In New York’s Gaps 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

They’re fashioned into elegant little blocks in four flavors: rose, citrus, mastic and pomegranate, coated with almonds, then covered with white or dark chocolate and dusted with gold leaf. The Met’s ‘Heirloom Project’ Marks the 10th Anniversary of Its Islamic Wing 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

Mylio finds and collects them all into one place and allows you to search by time, location, person and custom label in its elegant interface. There’s never been a better time to organize your travel photos. Here’s how. 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

And “Wintered Debt” is a beautiful piece that begins as a quiet and subdued as a lullaby, layers on some elegant harmonies and then explodes into truly raucous baroque orchestral pop. Of Montreal's Paralytic Stalks is Really Weird. We Like It That Way. 2012-02-14T16:00:30Z

This is Mr. Hynes’s New York, elegant and mundane all at once. Dev Hynes: New York’s Last Bohemian on the City and His New Album 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

And for more than a century, this area’s elegant streets have also been the home of the top old-guard British art galleries. Mayfair Is a Mecca for Art Dealers and Collectors 2013-07-15T21:41:49Z

“Everything gets addressed, and his solutions are simple and elegant and painless.” Awkwardness as the Avenue to Success 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

A black polyhedron evoking a futuristic tombstone by Tony Smith completes a tableau that is as poetic as it is formally elegant. Art Review: Linde Family Wing at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Review 2011-09-22T22:25:49Z

That's the point of this elegant, intelligent and very beautiful book, which occupies a space between research and reflection, investigating our attitudes toward immunity and inoculation through a personal and cultural lens. Eula Biss' 'On Immunity' is a beautiful shot of insight 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The plan, the activists thought, was both simple and elegant. We are imprisoned by Israel: A filmmaker not allowed to attend his U.S. premiere on the nightmare of life in the West Bank 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Corea, who has won 26 Grammy Awards in his long career and is accomplished in both jazz and classical music, offered some novel and elegant solutions. Chick Corea and Seattle Symphony meld jazz and classical music with a dazzling performance 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

In the United States premiere of “Split,” this talented Australian choreographer presents an elegant, stark duet for two women — one clothed, the other naked — as they perform on an ever-shrinking stage. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

In the title track, an elegant acoustic ballad, she bids adieu to her fans. Janis Ian Lets Her Music Speak Her Mind (One Last Time) 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

After convincing a hyena friend to take her place at a ball, she teaches the animal how to walk in heels and covers its hairy paws in elegant gloves. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Through it all, Gloria was his partner, his strength, his rock,” the statement read, describing the mother and grandmother as “stately, dignified and classically elegant.” French chef Jacques Pépin mourns wife Gloria following her death: 'We are overcome with grief' 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Muser was putting the finishing touches on his elegant solution to the P.P.E. question. How to Open a Top-Tier Restaurant in a Pandemic? Rethink Everything 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

Adorned with detailed woodwork, Persian rugs, 14-foot ceilings with chandeliers, and period antiques, the room sets an elegant tone. A Maryland Inn for Spring 2011-04-11T21:50:02.803Z

It is a long stretch from the toga scarf dresses he used to start the brand’s rejuvenation two years ago to the elegant dress with rectangular folds at the bodice. Special Report: Fashion: Life on the Ocean Wave 2010-10-01T18:50:00Z

There is an elegant simplicity to this movie, but nothing about it feels easy. ‘Fire in the Mountains’ Review: The Mother of All Struggles 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

I have never seen an ear of corn so long or handsome, not jeweled like Indian corn, but elegant and talismanic. A once-famous, long-lost corn variety returns from the dead 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

On the morning we spoke, Ms. Mirren arrived late, frazzled with apology, but looking elegant in a wheat-colored dress and black boots. Helen Mirren Goes Back to the Palace in ‘The Audience’ 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

But the favorite of many Afghans is the chukar partridge, an elegant reddish-grey bird with a black band across its eyes and around its throat, a red beak, and black stripes on its side. Wings of joy: Kabul's bird market brings comfort to war-weary Afghans 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Whereas Bedrock Gardens felt quirky and fanciful, Fuller Gardens is decidedly more manicured, reflecting its elegant country estate history. During the pandemic, a new appreciation for botanical gardens blooms 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

One of the most elegant and luxurious hotels in New York. Details: New York

After it passed through a particularly long one, we emerged in the heart of downtown Bergen at the city’s elegant stone train station. A U.S. traveler’s urge to see Norway is all in his genes 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

A large part of their appeal lies in their elegant and beautiful designs; Wall-E, probably the most distinctive animated character of the past few years, was a masterwork of simplicity. Best and worst animated characters, explained 2011-02-09T21:15:00Z

His elegant home on New York’s Upper West Side has a gorgeous view of Central Park. Sheldon Harnick, 'Fiddler' and 'She Loves Me' lyricist, sails back into the Tony spotlight at 92 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

But the 2003 and 2002 had aged gracefully, showing some of the aggressive woodsy characteristics of American oak, perhaps, but also some delicious, elegant fruit. What it takes to drive a cabernet from good to great 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

With a tone ranging from finely spun to deep burgundy, complete technical and elegant musical command, he makes each piece his own. Frank's energetic chamber works reveal multi-cultural roots 2011-01-19T16:19:49Z

There's a formal dining room anchored by a long table and 10 carved chairs, an elegant living room with damask sofas, and several bedrooms - including the one where Jackson died. Michael Jackson fans leave tribute at auction site 2011-12-12T02:21:09Z

Swarovski crystal accented sheer tops subtly emblazoned with the Ferraro logo to create evening looks for any gender, worn with elegant cargo pants or silver suits. Bottega Veneta gets a Milan reboot, DSquared2 spreads love 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

That’s how Mack, a theoretical astrophysicist, begins her engrossing, elegant timeline of the cosmos. 13 Books to Watch For in August 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Their Waltz was elegant and sweet but the judges were once again mixed in their reviews. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Evan goes butch 2010-05-04T12:05:00Z

But of course, the real heartbreak of the week comes in an elegant, economical scene with the Solversons. Fargo recap: season two episode ten – The Castle 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Throughout this elegant show the allusions kept flying. Critic’s Notebook: Emeli Sandé’s ‘Our Version of Events’ 2012-06-06T22:42:46Z

Another section, meant to evoke the elegant sound of the pianist George Shearing’s ensemble, was dry and cerebral. Music Review: Juilliard Group Opens MoMA?s Summergarden Series 2010-07-13T23:13:00Z

He was elegant as a cat, darkly handsome, unboreable, curious, fearless, fortunate, blessed with a near-eidetic memory, and surely one of the great English prose stylists of his generation. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z

There was no formal reception after the ceremony — no cake, no elegant dinner, no long, drawn-out speeches. Pass the Popcorn and Shhh! The Wedding Is About to Start 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

This difference was illuminated in Katie Mitchell’s production of “Norma Jeane Baker of Troy,” which ended up obfuscating a text that, while dense, remains eminently elegant. Perspective | Women give voice to a male canon. It happens to be ancient Greek. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

Mizoguchi’s technique — unobtrusively dramatic compositions, elegant camera movements and a seeming ability to make any kind of shot dazzling — is unmatched. Critic’s Notebook: Mizoguchi Films in a Museum of the Moving Image Series 2014-05-01T22:16:40Z

Mr. Kavakos seemed most at ease in the first movement’s searching, experimental cadenza, where his playing felt elegant and personal. Review: Squeezing Music Made for One Hall Into the Geffen 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

No one comes out or dies, and everything is shown with the same fluid, elegant transparency. New-wave queer cinema: 'Gay experience in all its complexity' 2012-10-04T18:59:01Z

PD: Now that’s a fun car—our family car, cool, classic, elegant, it just floats. Q+A: Patrick Dempsey on His Passion for Vintage Cars 2014-02-04T05:00:00Z

While Handel’s keyboard music might not reach the profundity of Bach’s, there is emotional depth in Ms. Smirnova’s renditions of the various movements, by turns elegant, witty and melancholy. Classical Recordings: ‘Handel: Keyboard Suites’ by Lisa Smirnova 2012-09-29T23:03:03Z

But it was JFK rather than Jackie who gave the White House its most elegant landscape feature. How a plain and tired lawn became the Rose Garden 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Schabus’s mind game of a show is a remarkably elegant demonstration of the differences between realities and simulations and their tendency to collapse in contemporary experience. Art Trek: A Critic’s Guide to the Best of the Lower East Side 2014-04-03T22:41:10Z

In effect, the entire movie is one of duelling monologues, spoken and unspoken: two hours of sharp, painful, witty, and elegant talk that is nonetheless rooted in the impossibility of communication. What’s Missing from the Brilliant “Marriage Story” 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. van Hove — a master of distillation in works that include the Tony-winning 2015 Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge” — traffics in more elegant but equally disturbing images. Review: In ‘The Damned,’ Ivo van Hove Finds the Mortal Chill in a Nazi Fire 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Their essence is not so different from the elegant canvases and sculptures that have become his trademark. The Week Ahead: June 3 — 8 2012-06-01T14:30:40Z

But nothing interrupts the depressive continuity, the air of elegant futility. Aimee Mann Traces Elegant Despair on ‘Mental Illness’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

They can be elegant and emotionally engaging in real life, as the Oscar-winning documentary "March of the Penguins" beautifully captured. 'Penguins of Madagascar' hit by a blizzard of puns 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

These paste-up arrangements aren’t the most elegant works in this exhibition, but they are maybe the most telling. Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Parisian women, so the old stereotype goes, are not meant to dress down like this; French style is meant to be about looking elegant and classic. The new wave of French style 2011-03-22T21:00:00Z

It so happens that, regardless of the vintage, the three producers in our tasting all seek a more elegant, less jammy, lower-alcohol style of cabernet sauvignon. How to Think About Wine Vintages 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Returning to the show's chilly, elegant dystopia as our country pulsates with red rage over elimination of abortion rights also changes the lens through which one might view the story. Assimilate us, "Westworld": With humanity this horrible – onscreen and off – just let the robots win 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

Here, glamorous touches like highly polished display surfaces contrast with stacked concrete walls for an elegant vibe that’s the perfect complement to Ilincic’s clothing. Three Shops AD Visited This Summer 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

BIRMINGHAM, England — High up in an attic overlooking a dense network of Victorian terraces in Birmingham’s historic jewelry quarter, the fledging watch company Struthers London has created an elegant design studio and workshop. Tradition and Edgy Design in a Young Watch Company 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

Such elegant, sundry decoration sanctifies her social station, while signaling all the worldly splendor she is about to give up as she heads into the asceticism of convent life. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

By the end, only charred walls remain of the once elegant room. Review: ‘The Fiery Angel,’ Devilishly Tough Prokofiev 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

And after each of these elegant purges of emotion, the album’s final track, “I’m Good at Leavin’,” is appropriately understated. Ashley Monroe, rising above the chatter of country music 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

On most shows, weddings are a cliché, a ratings grab, a move a season makes when it has run through more elegant ones. True Romance: Janet Mock on the Final Season of ‘Pose’ 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

Large guest rooms are adorned with Turkish rugs and gleaming woods that underscore the elegant–not stuffy–atmosphere. Best Fall Beach Deals 2011-08-24T13:20:01.977Z

And because the drink is meant to be “elegant, like a lady,” Ms. Dorman said, it is stirred rather than shaken. The Tipsy Diaries: A Toast to the Nominees, With Drinks They Inspired 2011-02-24T15:56:45Z

From his hands came a slow, elegant tidewater of chords, unresolved and Impressionistic. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

"It had this kind of intimacy to it, this beautiful, slow propeller whirring. It flew at a human pace, almost like walking — it was elegant and poetic." LACMA to show Chris Burden's last finished work, 'Ode to Santos Dumont' 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

The name translates as wildflowers, which are etched on the elegant, traditionally shaped rosé bottle. Sip this $13 prosecco to turn an ordinary day into a celebration 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

His house, designed with the same intelligent precision that marks his acting, is like the elegant toy shop of some cheerful Post-Impressionist. Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

And perhaps it’s also for that reason I found myself most loving the book for its pages, brilliant observations, its musings and its suspenseful elegant voice, rather than the overarching story. Javier Marías' elegant novel 'Thus Bad Begins' is filled with secrets 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Lesley Lokko’s nervy, elegant edition, which opened to the public on Saturday, goes one step further, asserting that the three themes are inextricably connected in ways that have pressing implications for the profession. Radical Rethinking at Biennale: Africa and the Future Share Pride of Place 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Over 6ft tall, wavy-haired, he became known for his elegant dress sense, and received dozens of proposals of marriage from female viewers. Kenneth Kendall 2012-12-14T16:08:50Z

Amazingly, by laboriously blinking his left eyelid to indicate letters of the alphabet, Bauby managed to "write" his devastatingly elegant and moving memoir. Lesley Glaister's top 10 books about incarceration 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z

Made with double-faced cashmere or a more office-appropriate glen plaid, the newly refined track pant was the linchpin of Kors’s relaxed, elegant wardrobe. | Luxe Sweatpants 2014-02-04T22:50:27Z

Glynn is such a warm, elegant, and gorgeously precise writer that, although I’ve never been to the Hamptons, I still felt the dizzying pull of the place: the otherworldly horizons, the shared sense of escape. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

“The Moving Picture Girls” is a reminder that grade-Z literature, like grade-Z movies, sometimes yields, clumsily but uninhibitedly, distinctive results that many more self-conscious and elegant works shrink from pursuing at all. The 1914 Y.A. Novel That Provides a Fascinating Look at the Movie Industry 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

On Friday, Ms. Baker marks the release of “Turn Out the Lights” with a concert at Town Hall, the elegant 1,500-seat theater in midtown Manhattan. Julien Baker Bravely Confronts Her Traumas and Fears 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

They're the elegant figures who live hundreds of years and amass generational wealth beyond measure. Beware the rise of vampire shows. It could mean a recession is looming 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

And the pearls weren’t dainty drops knotted into elegant strands, but chunky orbs that sprouted tiny crystallized spores. Holly Golightly, Hypebeast 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

The artistic research and its elegant application went back to the original idea of a male-female crossover in an era when it suggested daring perversity. Fashion Review: At Gucci, Frida Giannini Goes from Sexy to Sensual 2012-02-22T18:11:18Z

They look elegant when the rods are placed near the ceiling, and they fall almost to the floor. Hints From Heloise: Bookmark pays off? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Curving staircases on each side of the mansion's most famous room lead down to the kitchen and the elegant foyer, where a grand piano sits topped with crystal candlesticks. AP Exclusive: Contents of MJ's final home for sale 2011-11-09T10:21:08Z

"And sure enough, we watched the transformation of an elegant 80-year-old woman into the 25-year-old starlet that no one could ever forget." Hundreds mourn jazz singer Lena Horne in NYC 2010-05-14T19:46:00Z

Nothing like this existed in Mexico City when I was a child, and though I later grew up going to elegant restaurants, Pujol stands in a class of its own even today. My Mexico City Is Everyone’s Now 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

But on the wall of his elegant, open-plan home, in the outskirts of Beijing, hangs a single image: of a hand with its middle finger raised. Ai Weiwei's world 2010-03-18T08:00:00Z

This is very elegant because if you take an isolated Nespresso capsule, it would mean nothing but with three or four you can create anything. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z

I also have noticed how certain lines will give me the elegant vocabulary to describe something going on in my own life. I’m tweeting “The Great Gatsby” 2013-05-10T23:43:00Z

Places like this, elegant as they are, can be awkward if you’re on your own. Single in Chicago 2012-07-06T18:26:33Z

“With Core, I wanted to create a simple, elegant pendant that would be perfect for either linear or circular clusters,” says Woodgate. Terence Woodgate’s Chic New Line of Marble Lights 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Efforts to serve more intricate dishes using better ingredients in more elegant surroundings face steep obstacles. Malbecs From Argentina Fight the Stereotypes 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

But the spring 2019 collections offer a practical solution to help ease this seasonal transition: a bounty of utility-inspired pieces that are elegant, adaptable and, in some cases, weatherproof. How to Wear Spring’s Best Work-Wear-Inspired Pieces 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Tsukada, cool and elegant, mimed everyday acts — drawing a bath, making tea — and danced Siamese classical steps, calmly and deliberately. Music Review: Collaboration at 72 Beats Per Minute 2011-06-26T21:54:06Z

“That was a major aspiration of mine for a long time, to get an Elie Saab dress,” she said, dreamily describing the brand’s aesthetic as “Grace Kelly, elegant and beautiful.” For Iggy Azalea, Dress-Up Is a Grown-Up Game 2014-03-28T21:55:13Z

Gilmer could be a peacock: With his elegant carriage and line, and his scrupulous technique, he could veer toward a more aloof place as a performer — or be a show-off. Ailey’s New Secret Weapon: The Heroically Unmannered James Gilmer 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

Gazing down her elegant nose, she creates both a spot-on caricature and an affectionate tribute. A toast to Cate Blanchett 2010-05-14T18:48:00Z

In the elegant lobby with vaulted ceilings and marble floors, she recounted facts from her tour. The life of a hotel reviewer: Hang out in lobbies and bars, sleep in king-size beds 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

I am particularly anticipating the imaginative program that the elegant Israeli pianist David Greilsammer will present. The Hot List: David Greilsammer at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-06-21T21:28:20Z

Barnes’s finest accomplishment is not just an elegant set of buildings but an ideal space for collaboration: between artists and thinkers, humans and nature. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

The Paul Cret-designed main building is a classic example of the stripped-down, elegant but dour classicism that defines so many government properties built in the 1930s and ’40s in Washington. Wild gardens that grew out from Washington 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

The readings throughout were lovely, with elegant lines and a warm touch. Review: Kirill Gerstein Plays Liszt’s ‘Transcendental Études’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

All the silvery aluminum complements the elegant tones of this black-and-white film, creating a color-free world in which a tale of two instruments, metaphorically speaking, unfolds. Dia Chelsea, Keeper of the Avant-Garde Flame 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

This version — a perfect centerpiece for a blowout holiday meal — is a little more elegant than most. A Seafood Pie for the Feast 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Austen’s was even and elegant and almost alarmingly legible, as bright and immediate as a voice. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Maintaining a strict formal allegiance to reserve and restraint, he shapes a dreamily elegant emotional ballet from glances and gestures and subtle shifts in power. Review: In ‘Z for Zachariah,’ an End-of-Days Love Triangle 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Swabs are the epitome of elegant, slender, streamlined design, included in the 2004 Museum of Modern Art exhibit “Humble Masterpieces.” It’s the golden age of the swab, a 99-year-old invention that has never been more crucial 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

How tempting it would be to succumb to the elegant diversion and ignore inconvenient truths, namely, the rise of Nazism. Review | In this Kit Kat Klub, there’s a little less sleaze but just enough sizzle 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

The Pottermore interface is elegant — a thing of twisted branches and silver filigree. Pottermore's Pioneers: Exploring J.K. Rowling's New Site 2011-08-22T10:10:00Z

All the books share an exquisite attention to the daily lives of people whose survival is intimately interdependent on nature and a direct, elegant style that respects young readers by never flinching from sorrow. Indigenous Stories for Young Readers 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

His restaurant, Leonti, will be elegant, done in earthy green marble, with plush carpeting, leather upholstery, well-spaced tables and Art Deco touches. The Upper West Side Gets Some Dining Upgrades 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

“Last year I advertised for a chef de partie in a specialist French hospitality newspaper and I got 50 resumes in a few days,” Moine said, in an elegant hotel lounge overlooking the River Ness. Can't get the staff: Scenic Highlands at eye of Scotland's Brexit... 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

There are no tutus or glamour shots of the Chrysler Building, just a direct and elegant typeface inviting us in. Graphic design’s role in “Girls” 2012-07-05T00:00:00Z

Soon he was channeling his natural reserve into a seductive display of elegant understatement. Author explores the early years of Motown in ‘The Art of Grace’ 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

So why are our screen comedies by and large so much cruder and raunchier, so much less elegant and cosmopolitan, than they were back in the day? Pining for sophisticated comedy in a world of raunch 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

At Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening, the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet offered elegant interpretations of a range of Liszt pieces, part of Carnegie’s celebration of the composer’s bicentennial this year. Music Review: Liszt, the Chick Magnet, Tickled Ivories and More 2011-02-04T22:29:41Z

This is a contemporary viewpoint, as English ivy was once considered an elegant element in American gardens that looked to English and European garden traditions. Revered, then reviled: Tracking the rise and fall of ivy 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Sitting side by side on my desk with my simple and elegant stainless steel bottle, the whole effect, like the word “Dopper” itself, came off as somewhat silly. Green Swag: A plastic water bottle that isn’t terrible 2013-12-27T12:45:00Z

Grocery stores often sell bunches of single types of blooms so it's a no-brainer really; it'll make your bouquet look effortlessly elegant and make your life easier, too. How to turn $10 Trader Joe’s flowers into a fancy-schmancy bouquet 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

I was much taken by the sentence "He had successfully avoided meeting his landlady on the staircase" — an elegant telescope of psychological insight. Reading Stephen King's 'It': Still unsettling, all these years later 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

A dynamic contrast is italicized between the scruffiness of the object and the pristine, painstaking and elegant style of acutely linear drawing. At LACMA's Toba Khedoori show, enchanting mysteries burn beneath a fragile surface 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

That photograph, of my now-husband with his arm around me, is sitting on the bookshelf in my living room in an absurdly elegant silver picture frame, a gift from Tiffany’s. Modern Love: Sex on the Run? No, We Parked 2010-10-07T23:44:00Z

Recipe:  Pronto-Stuffed Pasta Shells Article: Madoline Markham Fettuccine with Blue Cheese Sauce Blue cheese dresses up a super simple white sauce to coat ham, spinach, and noodles for this elegant pasta. What's for Supper? Pasta Favorites 2010-03-13T00:22:00Z

White is, of course, always a good paint choice, because it feels elegant, fresh and clean. Looking for a paint color that will never go out of style? Try one of these timeless shades. 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

The third-person approach sacrifices the meaning-making that could have turned these elegant but somewhat icy fragments into a more satisfying whole. Review: Novels by Alexandra Kleeman, Edward St. Aubyn and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

It is a grim joy, yes, but one that feels true to its moment, one that we need, and one that readers of this bleakly elegant collection will find themselves savoring. Review | Louise Glück’s first collection since her Nobel gracefully captures our fragility 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Condado Vanderbilt, a rebuilt 1919 hotel, is Spanish Revival opulence in the heart of San Juan’s hotel row, with elegant bars, restaurants and rooms offering sea views. The Many Faces of Puerto Rico 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

An elegant, sinister and scalp-prickling ghost story, based on Henry James’s story The Turn of the Screw. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

And what is more elegant and beautiful than a plate of just-picked dark green spinach on a winter day? How to install instant greenhouses for winter greens

A mighty vegetable such as the stately, spiky artichoke might hold its own, but would the elegant, blue-green Tuscan kale? Planting flowers among fruits and veggies is tempting but tricky 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

A chivalrous man who "never used one word when twenty would do the same job," he's also a near-invalid, wasting away in his elegant clothing, barely managing to walk the three blocks of Front Street. 'Doc': Mary Doria Russell's intoxicating novel of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and Dodge City 2011-05-11T20:59:05Z

Their food is nearly indistinguishable: simple, elegant renditions of British classics, drawn from a local and seasonal larder. The Culinary Couple Who Built a British Empire 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

He’s puzzled by the reappearance at an East German lake of the elegant Wolfgang, this time as the director of Walter’s university. Crossing Abbey Road: It’s More Dangerous Than You Might Think 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

This short novel’s protagonist is a little girl named Mary who lives in a poorly governed city filled with elegant possibilities: “interesting songs and stories, foods and clothes and conversations.” A Parable About Good, Evil and the Inevitable 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

"I want to make the Viennese Waltz look so elegant that you actually think I'm a lady," Margaret Cho quips after her practice session. "Dancing with the Stars": The new season kicks off 2010-09-21T12:30:00Z

Some of them are from elegant writers; some are, to put it mildly, not. Gene Weingarten has the trite stuff 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Abrams’ film is to show, by contrast, how the direction of the previous films was elegant, balanced and above all appropriate,” he writes. Vatican Film Critic Gives Star Wars Thumbs Down 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z

He is shown as a young man in his salon here surrounded by neoclassical furnishings that strike an elegant yet matter-of-fact note. A Painter Resurrects Louisiana’s Vanished Creole Culture 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Taima paused for a quick chew on an elegant green suede shoe still attached to a foot. Petting zoos at the office are the latest perk for stressed-out employees 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The war would be mentioned, Green said, but in an elegant fashion that was appropriate for “a great big singing competition.” How Liverpool Put on a Song Contest for Ukraine 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

The second show at Chapter NY’s new Houston Street space is an elegant pairing of sculptors. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The Telegraph described Marsh's Don No Harm as "an elegant series of meditations at the closing of a long career". Brain surgery book up for Costa prize 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

The partial skeletons were found during excavation of an elegant villa on the outskirts of the ancient Roman city that was destroyed by the eruption in 79 A.D. Bodies of man and his slave unearthed from ashes at Pompeii 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z

Even the elegant buildings on the grand boulevards appear to take flight. Review: ‘An American in Paris,’ a Romance of Song and Step 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

The butler’s pantry was designed as an elegant little room. A dream kitchen fit for a family: Style, function and a 360-degree water view 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

From countless mistakes, ounces of spilled blood and gallons of sweat comes something simple and enduring; practical yet elegant. Sea of Love: A Father, His Daughter and the Boat He Made for Her 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Soft, elegant and accessible, with aromas and flavors of red fruit and flowers. 2014 Barbarescos: Triumphs and Question Marks 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

In performances of Jerome Robbins’s “The Cage” and Justin Peck’s “Partita” last season, he won praise as an elegant and agile artist. ‘Princes Can Be Asian, Too’: A Dancer Breaks Barriers in Ballet 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

There’s no better start for an elegant holiday dinner than a concise slice or two of foie gras terrine and a glass of mellow wine. Noma’s Story Told in a Documentary 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

Like Owens’s clothing, the furniture manages to be simultaneously brutal and elegant. | Making His Own Bed 2010-05-05T19:34:00Z

Set to the spiritual “Oh, Glory,” the soloist’s elegant balancing and streamlined motion conjure the potential risk, exhilaration and loneliness of flight. This D.C.-based choreographer creates dances about trailblazers, hoping you’ll embrace their ideals 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

It's an elegant meander through the topic, Dubner beginning with why he wears headphones on the New York subway, "those ridiculous big ear-muff-type noise cancelling headphones". Radio head: Freakonomics Radio 2011-02-16T08:00:03Z

Now, the convent’s clean spaces and airy cloister provide an elegant ambiance for some of modern Italy’s finest art. In Transit Blog: A Home for Art Reopens in Rome 2012-01-13T11:00:15Z

The legs were less elegant and elongated than the originals, and the bolts affixing them to the base were white, rather than black, the L-shaped brackets flat, not grooved. You avoid fake designer handbags and watches, but what about furniture? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

The resulting photographs, animated images that Ms. Beck calls “cinemagraphs,” featured an elegant Ms. Rocha in her New York apartment flicking her kohl-lined eyes or letting a balcony breeze tousle her hair. New York Fashion Week: On Tumblr, a Community for Style - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-09T22:15:33Z

It was there, at La Redoute, an elegant ballroom, that Beethoven met Haydn in 1792, and showed him a cantata he had written. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

An elegant, low-key restaurant nestled in the vineyards of the Cepa 21 winery with wraparound views. A sip-to-sip tour of the ‘Sonoma of Spain’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

To his credit, the designer has made his dark and once gothic vision chic and elegant. Special Report: Fashion: Taking the Long View 2010-10-04T18:40:00Z

Whir the same soup in a blender for a velvety texture and call it bisque, an elegant soup that is easy to transport to your next potluck. A make-ahead, adaptable, mushroom-powered soup is just the ticket for the holidays 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

It takes its name from the signature Cipriani cocktail, named in turn for the Italian painter, of white peach purée in sparkling wine, which stars in the elegant little bar area. Room With Quite a View: Danny Meyer’s Manhatta 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

Roger Vergé, a French chef who was a leading figure in the nouvelle cuisine movement of light, fresh and elegant preparations and who influenced generations of chefs, died June 5 at his home in Mougins. Roger Vergé, French chef who championed nouvelle cuisine, dies at 85 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Sacred Chants Reverberating Once Again TBILISI, Georgia ON a swelteringly hot morning in this elegant capital city recently, worshippers crammed in the ornately frescoed sixth-century Anchiskhati Basilica. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z

It read, “Last night was a smashing success … it was warm but not corny, humorous but not frivolous, love-filled but not forced, elegant but not gaudy and welcoming to all with joy and happiness.” Slow to Take Off, After a First Date They Cruised 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

He played with virtuoso panache in the many bravura passages and with an elegant touch in more introverted moments. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Tchaikovsky at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-07-08T20:24:36Z

Hunt is not shy about his elegant ambitions with this small novel. A Portrait of a Stalwart Life, and of America Itself 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

As an elegant truce to an intractable problem, the realist novel offered a way out, and unsurprisingly caught on like wildfire. Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

She cuts rather a graceful, elegant figure, seated there in Bridlington, between her mother and father. Family life 2012-12-22T00:04:00Z

Generally, refined means elegant and cultured in appearance, manner or taste, or with impurities removed. No food is healthy. Not even kale. 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z