How To Use Elegance In A Sentence

A few plum accents can bring in a note of elegance to any room; try a throw pillow or two, or a plum lampshade with a fringe?
* Got my project 5.9, with a lot of thrash and inelegance. She's got to go away...
My guess would be that her headmaster born in the late 16th century, no doubt, when men were men and rules were rules rapped her on her noggin for inelegance at some crucial point in her development, and voilà! Author! Author! » 2010 » March
The show travels to nearly 200 cities around the world annually with the beauty, elegance, glamour and energy of a Broadway show.
'Sooner or later the young gadabouts will settle down to a more sane level of sartorial elegance. Times, Sunday Times

Unfinished hems and bulky vertical exterior seams retained an air of elegance, their rough finish somehow marrying perfectly with the slinky lines of dresses and skirts. Times, Sunday Times
It is also home to the legendary Afflecks Palace from where I have purchased many a pre-loved item in my quest for sartorial elegance.
Backgrounds of boudoir pink, persimmon, lilac and aqua combine with the calligraphic grace of his fleshy figures in images of stylized elegance.
He was a tall man, with a distinct sartorial elegance. The Crossing-Place
The Mac's graphical user interface, soon replicated in Microsoft Windows, saving the world from the even more bureaucratic MS-DOS, was radical in its elegance and ease. William Bradley: Steve Jobs: Hardly a Perfect Person, Perhaps a Perfect Icon
He was wonderful to watch for his style, elegance, flair and goalscoring. The Sun
Despite its rather insubstantial construction, the basket weighs thirty troy ounces and presages the simple elegance of the neoclassical style.
Before the Second World War, actresses who played Titania usually aimed at an ethereal, queenly elegance and beauty.
However, where Horowitz gives you mainly patrician elegance, Moravec seems to give you the lagniappe of something deeply felt as well, without wallowing in it.
The building has been painstakingly restored to all its former elegance.
French technique meets Japanese elegance around a traditional garden at the upscale Tetsuya's, where there is just one coveted degustation menu. Sydney: Autumn in Oz
The elegance of refined Shanghai ladies of the first half of last century is long lost.
Even the ‘archaic’ epodes are written in a style of painstaking elegance.
We didn't have the rackets that impart so much power and that made for better players because stroke elegance, grace and skill played more of a part. Times, Sunday Times
She loves pink for what it represents: femininity, elegance and classic style.
What is evident is that his best music has a marvellous elegance.
Its timeless elegance is taking on new character with vibrant colours and tailored cuts.
They have beauty on their side, they also have grace and elegance.
Just as the exquisite sea-anemones and all the graceful ocean-flowers die out at some fathoms below the surface, the elegances and suavities of life die out one by one as we sink through the social scale. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
It was Augusta who created the ranch house's Victorian elegance, adding her own fine needlepoint to the furnishings from Chicago, New York, and Europe.
The instrumental color, finely crafted elegance, and glowing sweep of the music were exhilarating.
Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment.
A half century after the raids and radiation this country was reborn, cloaking itself in sci-fi elegance, in tinted glass and robot façades.
My room was the epitome of elegance. Times, Sunday Times
There was a grace and an elegance she carried with her, and it went further than the sleek curves of her figure.
She managed to impart great elegance to the unpretentious dress she was wearing.
Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment.
The tourists are still coming in their droves, to gawk at the city's crumbling, period elegance.
For all their elegance, they are as aware as all great artists that pain is our human lot.
The lady's clothes seemed to fill the whole carnage, and out of this little padded box there drifted a perfume of orris, an indefinable scent of feminine elegance.
The age of elegance is gone, there was a time when a woman wouldn't dare leave the house without makeup and the right gloves. Archive 2009-09-01
This meant that in his search for a new language to express himself he was obliged to break existing artistic conventions, which required an elegance and polish that stifled all feelings.
Due to the elegance of the design, most things are immediately obvious.
Whether performing on stage or off, Astaire, like Marshall / Monescu and other dandified leading men, created an aesthetic of performance and fastidious elegance.
Real Tuscan villas possess a sort of laconic elegance from their relatively unornamented rustic style: the rough hewn here is more of the Home Depot ‘I forgot’ variety.
A shirt with a Chinese collar or high roll-neck, minus necktie, can spell casual elegance.
Or a wool-lined flying jacket to add the final touch of elegance to your New Look. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
Nevertheless, in the ninth century, Danila, the scribe of the three-columned bible of La Cava, mastered capitalis, uncial, half-uncial, a slanting half-uncial with uncial admixture, and minuscule, all with equal elegance." (p. 99) December Books 11) Latin Palaeography
The rotor turns an attached generator, creating electricity with a simple elegance, carving energy from the sky.
His works are known for a certain voluptuousness and ripe sensuality, his figures lacking much of the grace and elegance of earlier bijin prints, but emphasizing in their place worldliness and a less disguised or mediated sexuality.
I only once saw him without his stiff white detachable collar: at once a symbol of perpetual elegance and expendability.
His writings were marked by an extraordinary lucidity and elegance of style.
she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility
In the former case the skull is said to be 'orthognathous' or straight-jawed; in the latter, it is called 'prognathous,' a term which has been rendered, with more force than elegance, by the Saxon equivalent, -- 'snouty.' On Some Fossil Remains of Man
And what sort of landowner would refuse to play host to a concours d' élégance at which owners of magnificent chariots - Lagondas, Delages, Rolls-Royces - could admire each other's turnout?
The designers like to say they are “suffused with the self-same light of the serenity and elegance of April”. Modern Bathroom by Baldini
The film has its visually muddy scenes, but it still exudes a stylish elegance from the exquisite bleached-out imagery of the opening credit sequence to the loungey soundtrack.
Tropical waterlilies normally hold their blooms well above the water surface adding to the grace and elegance of this group of plants.
Too much occupied with the acquaintances which they would be able to form and the invitations it might perhaps be possible to secure, they knew absolutely nothing, even in after-years, of what there was in this priceless museum of the archives of the Monarchy, and could only recall confusedly that it was decorated with cacti and giant palms which gave this centre of social elegance a look of the palmarium in the Jardin d’Acclimatation. The Guermantes Way
Tropical waterlilies normally hold their blooms well above the water surface adding to the grace and elegance of this group of plants.
Spiral staircases and heaps of elegance lead the way to sumptuous rooms. Times, Sunday Times
The cool elegance of the shapes, such as stemmed goblets, is matched by the smooth silvery-grey burnished surfaces.
From the seven bedrooms on the first floor, to the nine reception rooms on the ground floor, to the staff quarters below stairs, the apartment is the epitome of elegance.
Though "graceful" is a word one wouldn't readily apply to Stickley's cabinetry, there is a certain massive elegance to his lighting fixtures. Four-Square Reformer
All in all, this is a bar that combines refined tastes with a stately elegance - be on your best behaviour then.
They remind us of a time when our culture was sophisticated and full of elegance and beauty.
Few academic historians seem to care about the literary elegance that sustains the essay form.
The balsam is a beautiful tree; though not aspiring to the dignity of the pine and hemlock, it shoots up in the most perfect and gradual spire-like form, to a height of thirty or forty feet, remarkable for its elegance; the foliage is very rich in color and quantity. Rural Hours
His wonderfully contrasty pictures made us all aware of the noble, Roman solidity of some of the structures and the simple, honed elegance of their detailing.
The Preacher (hews at once his moderationt his good fenfe, and his urbanity, in this City fermon, which, for elegance of compoiition, would not difgrace a dhapei-myal. The Monthly Review
It is written with elegance and sometimes donnish wit, but it is very far from being a book for specialists. Times, Sunday Times
The axiom that ‘simplicity is elegance’ applies to the science of mineralogy as well.
He was wonderful to watch for his style, elegance, flair and goalscoring. The Sun
He dismissed Mapplethorpe as a pompier - an artist so concerned with elegance as to have lost touch with the limits of his medium.
Inside, antiques, family paintings and period furniture enhance the elegance and character inherent in this finely proportioned manor house.
The richness and elegance of the church took me all "aback;" it was so entirely different from anything I had seen, that it was difficult to decide whether I was most charmed by its novelty or its beauty. Views a-foot
As the recording of Walter Reiter and Cordaria shows, the less well-known Vivaldi does not lack elegance, spectacularity and virtuosity, liveliness and instant communicativeness.
The judging panel, which comprised former holders of the title Margarette Alcindor and Theresa de Roche, journalist Isaac Tschando, Anne Rose Mordi of Jewellery by Anne, Patsy White – promoter of Miss Elegance and Miss Asia World, former commere of the show Shyraine Mubiana, and representative of the public JoAnn Gosine, debated their decision long and hard, and it proved to be very popular with the public. Archive 2008-05-01
The food of Tarazona is known for its almost austere plainness; this has been tempered lately by chefs who have brought an elegance to their cooking.
A waspy waist and a flippy knee-length skirt were central to a show that exuded casual elegance. Times, Sunday Times
A mixture of bunker and shed, the centre exudes a taut, functional elegance.
The interiors had the charmless elegance of upscale hotel suites.
The quintessence of luxury, based upon a range of cashmere and guanashina, the main collection for this winter is an irresistible invitation to enjoy the ultimate in refined elegance.
These latter, such as the ambulatories leading to or flanking the central dome, transform what might otherwise be relatively austere into elegance and beauty.
Although Acer palmatum is the classic Japanese maple there are other maples from Japan with a similar degree of elegance.
They range from lovely, understated elegance and simplicity to wild extravagance.
These mugs are deceivingly sturdy whilst still giving the appearance of quality and elegance.
In either case it lacks the fusion of undeviatingly precise, inexorable discipline with imaginative originality and wide range, and that combination of intensity, lyricism, and elegance which had raised the Russian ballet to its former unattainable height. The Arts in Russia Under Stalin
The mansion had an atmosphere of genteel elegance and decay.
He is admired for the elegance of his writing.
It's easy to fall into the trap of that campy, queeny thing, but he carried it off with such grace - there was a beautiful elegance to him.
Her style is effortless, drop-dead elegance.
Pink roses: elegance, gracefulness, refinement, gentility, style and poetic romance but being combined with fun and lightheartedness.
Rudeness is defined as: lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse; of untaught manners; uncivil; ignorant; lacking chasteness or elegance. Ed and Deb Shapiro: How Does A Waitress Deal With Rude People?
Trifling articles, like eggs or radishes, might be smuggled into a brown wicker basket with covers; but it did not consort with elegance to "trapes" home with anything that looked inconvenient or had legs sticking out of it. The Imperialist
The second movement's courtly elegance brought out the delicacy of the imitation through its vibrato-less, pastel shading through which every note could be heard.
Brass snaps impart a utilitarian elegance, and its hook hangs as easily from a bathroom door as from the branches of a baobab tree.
Meg giggled at her inelegance and assessed her companion.
The table, one of only eight recorded pieces of furniture by Faberge, stands out for its sheer elegance and the subtle orchestration of silver, nephrite, and exotic palisander wood.
Any offence against sartorial elegance should not be blamed on the lack of a tie, but a poor and archaic choice of dress. Times, Sunday Times
Flower heads and a short amount of stalk lend a subtle elegance to pears poached in white wine with honey and lemon juice. Times, Sunday Times
Her innocence exchang'd for guilty state; Whatever you write, in every golden line Sublimity and elegance combine; Thy nervous phrase impresses every soul, While harmony gives rapture to the whole. ' Life Of Johnson
Self command is the main elegance. Ralph Waldo Emerson
an impression of careless elegance
Some of the most complex but decisive concepts in modern physics and mathematics are set out with lucidity and concise elegance. The Times Literary Supplement
To outward appearances, it remained the same bastion of elegance it had been for the past sixty-odd years. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
He lost his most memorable fight with class, and elegance and style, and dealt with defeat without bitterness. Times, Sunday Times
The elegance and grace of riding side-saddle is reiterated in the dress code.
There were large exotic trees and open spaces around the few houses, each competing with the other, in design, elegance and luxury.
It is not vnknowen that oure language for the barbarousnes and lacke of eloquence hathe bene complayned of, and yet not trewely, for anye defaut in the toungue it selfe, but rather for slackenes of our coũtrimen, whiche haue alwayes set lyght by searchyng out the elegance and proper speaches that be ful many in it: as plainly doth appere not only by the most excellent monumentes of our aũciẽt forewriters, A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes
Catherine Deneuve seemed to typify cool Gallic elegance.
His plummy accent, polite demeanour and sartorial elegance remind one of an era when business was conducted at gentlemen's clubs over cigars and port.
Kate is the epitome of ladylike elegance with poker straight posture, a svelte figure and a confident yet warm personality.
I have often mentioned the grandeur, but I feel myself unequal to the task of conveying an idea of the beauty and elegance of the scene when the spiry tops of the pines are loaded with ripening seed, and the sun gives a glow to their light-green tinge, which is changing into purple, one tree more or less advanced contrasted with another. Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
Her dancing is plush with classical detail and energy; her solos are models of elegance and grace. Times, Sunday Times
The new songs, though, forfeit the elegance of her classic material in favor of sheen and rougher texture, as with the title track, which is more beat-driven than anything she's ever done. Diamond Lite
Her elegance belies the bitterness and revenge at her heart - a rather stylish and svelte old dear, for whom the funeral pyre seems a slightly unfair fate.
Designers presented understated elegance, a lifestyle only for the initiated.
His writings were marked by an extraordinary lucidity and elegance of style.
Beneath his refined manners and superficial elegance the man was a snake.
Despite its cutesy air of chocolate-box Paris, The Elegance of the Hedgehog is, by the end, quite radical in its stand against French classism and hypocrisy. The Elegance of the Hedgehog: Summary and book reviews of The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.
The design of the Mulsanne, Bentley's new flagship, is a compelling fusion of sportiness, solidity and coach-built elegance - created on a grand scale. Automotive Headlines
Beau Brummell, the prince's friend, was the arbiter of elegance.
Also Miss Gumerova very quickly revealed her poise and elegance.
The instrumental color, finely crafted elegance, and glowing sweep of the music were exhilarating.
If ever a gymnast were the picture of elegance, Natalia Lipkovskaya would be that athlete.
It sat on a hill that gave a fantastic view of the Nile, its porch open to the breeze and offering an Old World elegance that sharply contrasted with the high-rise modernness of the New Cataract Hotel that adjoined it. From This Beloved Hour
Joanna has natural grace and elegance.
Later, working as a painter, etcher and interior designer in Paris and London, he was renowned for his wit, style and elegance.
His language is deceptively simple; it is not easy to recreate his elegance and poise.
Throughout life's complications, you should maintain such a sense of elegance.
Opera, assayed Alidoro with typical unsparing elegance.
It teeters on the cusp of the Mediterranean, offering endless vistas of blue-green sea, bucketfuls of fresh air, and crumbling, salty buildings of the old town that still manage to retain their elegance.
John has never been known for his sartorial elegance.
Opera, assayed Alidoro with typical unsparing elegance.
The designers like to say they are “suffused with the self-same light of the serenity and elegance of April”. Modern Bathroom by Baldini
He was built for speed but at the same time had an elegance that shone even through the dirt caking his lackluster body.
Ellison referred to as "elegance" is not foreign to black experience. Whatever Happened to Integration?
She was bewitching, enchanting, graced with an unearthly elegance.
On the catwalk, they've teamed them with pencil skirts to complete a smart suit look that conveys better than anything the yearning for a long-overdue dose of ladylike elegance in fashion.
He loved show, too, and pleasure, and might now indulge both without the risk of falling under the suspicion of incivism, which, in the Reign of Terror, would have been incurred by any attempt to intermingle elegance with the enjoyments of social intercourse. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 263, Supplementary Number (1827)
The lingerie department of Billier's prided itself on the elegance of its offerings.
British bankers are not famed for their sartorial elegance and that, sadly, seems set to continue. Times, Sunday Times
The quality of the food and wine matches the elegance of the surroundings.
“The legitimacy of the prepositional ending in literary English must be uncompromisingly maintained; in respect of elegance or inelegance, every example must be judged not by any arbitrary rule, but on its own merits …” Up from out of in under for
The statue has a gentleness, an ambience, a wistful elegance.
Beneath his refined manners and superficial elegance lay something treacherous.
He is known for his sartorial elegance.
Her presence imparted an air of elegance .
The quieter elegance of the neoclassical style achieved a cameo-like effect which was finally translated into ‘jasper’ and ‘Basalt’ in the Wedgwood potteries.
Sage's subfusc elegance serves as an all-purpose foil for food that represents his personal version of dishes that are hot all around the gastro-stratosphere. Taking a Chance on Vegas's New Spots
The Road & Track concours d' elegance (car show) for race cars will fill the Village of Elkhart Lake on Friday evening and the Road & Track sports car concourse d' elegance will be the attraction Saturday evening.
The muted red, gray and off-white mottled surface of the former brings to mind the texture of sinewy muscles; the monochromatic black installs a simple elegance on the latter. ArtScene: Current California Exhibitions You Should See
Still, he is being tamed with elegance and admirable refinement. Times, Sunday Times
And so Sabre again turned to Jim Taylor to design a daysailor with the style and elegance of sailing yachts of a bygone era, and added to the design mandate blending the performance of a youthful sport boat with "grown-up" ease of handling available with today's modern sailing hardware. WN.com - Business News
If the modernist box remains the default form, unsurpassable for its elegance and adaptability, it has also been the spur to some amazingly bold escapes from that orthodoxy.
Do you know a businessman who turns heads as he strides the city's sidewalks in his perfectly tailored sartorial elegance?
On the dead face the handsome pair of gold pince-nez mocked death with grotesque elegance; the fine gold chain curved over the naked breast. Whose Body?
It lacked grace and elegance but I still want him to win. The Sun
Does any journalist today write with the elegance and effortlessness that he did?
As Larsen-Freeman and Cameron comment, “In order to address their goal, many lingustis have sought to represent the language system in idealized elegance, often stripped of the disorderliness of what had been called the noisy ‘remainder’ … To do so, they have had to make certain concessions that do not cohere well with the demands of applied linguistics”. X is for X-bar Theory « An A-Z of ELT
Know, then, reader, that you have to do with a person who, provided his words but clearly express the sentiments of his mind, entertains a fixed and absolute disregard for all elegance and ornaments of speech; for, — “Dicite, pontifices, in sacris quid facit aurum?” A Dissertation on Divine Justice
No matter where he was playing, he always maintained the same posture and this just added to his elegance," said Gonçalves, who was at Moura's bedside as the clarinettist played the choro classic Doce de Coco shortly before his death. Paulo Moura obituary
It gave the coupe a feeling of elegance and modernness.
But luxury to me is a question of elegance and elegance is always reticent. The Education of a Gardener
artless elegance
Taylor to design a daysailor with the style and elegance of sailing yachts of a bygone era, and added to the design mandate blending the performance of a youthful sport boat with WN.com - Business News
Her brash buoyancy and his effortless elegance lifted the audience into the stratosphere.
After all, one did not often see a man with such a damaged face traveling in elegance: a new bowler hat and tweed suit.
Slender headlamps and a new tail lamp cluster add a dash of elegance while a trendy side skirt shows off alloy wheels.
Sitting straight, Florence ( back ) has an elegance of a ballet dancer.
Quakerish elegance, about the rogue that hit my fancy on the spot. Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools
The photograph best describes the elegance and practicality of this feature.
In Japan, the country of my birth, I tried to write in a neutral style, without either elegance or inelegance.
Even now in her sixties, she is the epitome of French elegance.
She had a kind of doleful elegance, tried to be confidential, lowered her voice and looked as if she wished to establish a secret understanding, in order to ask her visitor if she would venture on an apple-fritter. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
The ease and the elegance came after weeks and weeks of rehearsals. Times, Sunday Times
Her vibrancy, dramatic range and willowy elegance make her a classical ballerina of the highest order.
The atmosphere throughout is one of understated elegance and the highest standards of comfort and luxury.
It's only a matter of time before the fashion cognoscenti are once more clamouring for this particular brand of undeniable elegance.
Still, he is being tamed with elegance and admirable refinement. Times, Sunday Times
(he had held a much-envied shore appointment at the Ministry of Marine for a year preceding his retreat from his profession and from Europe), he possessed a latent warmth of feeling and a capacity for sympathy which were concealed by a sort of haughty, arbitrary indifference of manner arising from his early training; and by a something an enemy might have called foppish, in his aspect -- like a distorted echo of past elegance. The End of the Tether
In the final section the torero (star matador) engages the bull with his elegance and control, then exchanges the purple and yellow capote (large cape) for the red muleta (smaller cape) and curved sword.
This sixteen member string orchestra plays with silky elegance and brilliant virtuosity.
As we will see, his works display an acute awareness of human faults and frailties and his writing exhibits a vividness and an elegance that makes it a pleasure to read.
In the dining-room the draperies create an atmosphere of elegance.
Mr. Licitra is a protégé of one of the exemplary postwar Verdi stylists, Carlo Bergonzi, and he has that great tenor's unforced elegance of line, command of mezza voce and the capacity to adjust the timbre of his voice to suit the requisite emotion, from a stentorian, almost baritone thickness that promises a great Otello one day, to the reedy plaintiveness of La Traviata 's Alfredo. Is Licitra Tomorrow's Tenor? The Heir Apparent Appraised
The instrumental color, finely crafted elegance, and glowing sweep of the music were exhilarating.
From the picturesque splattering of autumn leaves on the dinner plates to sprinkle of tulips etched out on the grooved wine glasses, your crockery will now have a touch of elegance and sparkle.
As New York City shimmers with excitement; as orchestras are lit, theatres explode with spidermen and nannies; and as sugar plum fairies go wild in electric streets; Central Park contemplates quiet elegance arising from her frozen tundra. Jack Schimmelman: Central Park: A Performance in Four Seasons (Winter Eclipse)
Enjoy it for its nuances, its refinements, its elegance.
In contrast Harriet's family represents the fading genteel elegance of the old South.
He has gathered 42 years of culinary experience from across the world, perfecting style and elegance in presentation and superb taste.
What charming grace and elegance. Times, Sunday Times
The sheer elegance and eye-catching appeal have ensured the popularity of vinyl boards to traders.
Wrought iron gates were placed here and there for elegance as well as function, and deadening ivy climbed part of the walls.
Is it just us, or does all this retro culture stuff seem infused with an element of cheesecake, a world where the pin-up was the height of visual elegance?
Her Chopinesque touch brought elegance to the movement's lovely second subject.
I gazed down upon the old quarter, a collage of dun roofs, domes and vaults, pencil and square minarets, ugliness and elegance.
chic elegance
My father, yielding to my entreaties, has given me the prettiest turnout in Paris — two dapple-gray horses and a barouche, which is a masterpiece of elegance. Letters of Two Brides
Peter Hall directs a production of minimalist elegance played, in true Brechtian tradition, against a dazzling cyclorama.
It is a feast of boleros delivered with flair by Ferrer, who intuitively conjures up the elegance and languid energy of that post-war singing style.
Hahn's musical personality unites two contrary impulses: youthful ardor and a patrician elegance.
From a smoke-colored twill kilt worn over a skinny trouser, to a jet wool cashmere utility vest worn over a charcoal-striped tweed double-breasted chesterfield, Mr. Chai delivered, literally, new dimensions to his love of slouchy elegance to sublime effect. Richard Chai LOVE Re-Mixes Materials

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