What's the difference between ballroom and elegant?

Ballroom


Definition:

  • (n.) A room for balls or dancing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen hosts the banquet in the Buckingham Palace ballroom.
  • (2) As long as politicians like McConnell, Cuomo and Faulconer see a closed-door ballroom of billionaires as their base, they aren’t likely to vote to raise the minimum wage, in Congress or in the statehouses, on the left side of the aisle or the right.
  • (3) A man of Ben van Beurden’s power and reputation for blunt speaking is capable of silencing a ballroom packed with his boisterous peers.
  • (4) The house, which once belonged to Prince Jefri Bolkiah, the playboy younger brother of the Sultan of Brunei, boasts a ballroom with elaborate panelled walls edged with 24-carat gold leaf.
  • (5) They come to us alive with intentionality, describing themselves in movement, waltzing through the ballroom, trudging through the marsh after wildfowl, racing horses, cutting hay.
  • (6) It was 12.30pm Sunday, and the show had not even got started in the Reno Ballroom, the venue for the Republican frontrunner’s fifth rally in four days.
  • (7) Mr Jackson spoke to fans from his Neverland ranch, telling them he wanted to be with them at Santa Maria's Radisson Hotel, where they took over a ballroom for the gathering.
  • (8) But probably the most telling scene in both – a scene that really shows how they are different – is when Jack finds himself at the hotel bar in a vast empty ballroom, with no alcohol.
  • (9) The pair received 25 points for the dance, putting them bottom of the leaderboard ahead of the public vote and a week before the BBC show makes its annual journey to Blackpool’s Tower Ballroom.
  • (10) Because they pretend as if there is no religious aspect to this.” Addressing a ballroom full of the international press in Turkey, Obama argued sharply that there should be no religious aspect to US policy on admitting refugees.
  • (11) Read more He told Redknapp and her partner Kevin Clifton: “I loved the mix of jazz and ballroom in there and I loved that you showed her off.” TV judge, Judge Rinder, followed his performance by paying tribute to members of the armed forces and those who had survived in both world wars.
  • (12) • Ultimate Power is at Electric Ballroom, London and Moon Club, Cardiff, both 26 February; ultimatepowerclub.com .
  • (13) The set was very deliberately built to be offbeat and off the track, so that the huge ballroom would never actually fit inside.
  • (14) In the historic Surf Ballroom on the shores of Clear Lake in northern Iowa, Democratic activists filled the room to its capacity of 2,100 to see four of the party’s five candidates for president each take turns touting their liberal bona fides.
  • (15) You think the ballroom is an impressive space, and then you see the dance hall (nowhere near ready).
  • (16) At a morning event on Friday in a West Des Moines hotel ballroom, Graham drew a crowd that would have been considered standing room only if the attendees had been young enough.
  • (17) But the former shadow chancellor Ed Balls stole the show as he was lowered from the ceiling of the Tower Ballroom playing a piano before jiving with Katya Jones to the Jerry Lee Lewis song Great Balls Of Fire.
  • (18) Trump is now focusing instead on extending the house, now named after his mother Mary MacLeod, with a 400-capacity ballroom and six new bedrooms.
  • (19) But this is early days, phase one of four, promising over the next couple of years everything from a “fine dining” restaurant to the revival of the cinema and ballroom.
  • (20) Ballroom suits her SO much better than latin - her frame still lacks control, but it has nice rise and fall and is streets ahead of last week's performance.

Elegant


Definition:

  • (a.) Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
  • (a.) Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
  • (2) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
  • (3) She followed that with a job at Bibendum – she still talks of Simon Hopkinson, "such an elegant cook, so particular and clean and efficient", with deep reverence – and another at Roscoff in Northern Ireland.
  • (4) It's typically sober and elegant, and Cotillard excels in a nervy, vulnerable role.
  • (5) Yet, in spite of this restriction, the 2-mu plasmid of yeast has evolved an elegant mechanism which can allow it to rapidly amplify its copy number without initiating multiple rounds of replication.
  • (6) It is readily expressed as clinical sensitivity and specificity, and elegantly represented by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.
  • (7) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
  • (8) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
  • (9) He believed that western liberal democracy, with its elegant balance of liberty and equality, could not be bettered; that its attainment would lead to a general calming in world affairs; and that in the long run it would be the only credible game in town.
  • (10) Total-Body Scanner is rather an elegant method but a discontinuous one.
  • (11) Foundas also praises Magic's photography, calling its "elegantly choreographed traveling master shots bathed in natural light" a key part of "one of his most beautifully made films."
  • (12) It is the latest in a series of sculpture commissions to occupy the elegant neoclassical galleries, which stretch back 86 metres from the museum's main entrance on the banks of the Thames.
  • (13) Sean Ingle Wimbledon No one has broken Roger Federer’s serve at these championships, let alone taken a set, and the appreciative midsummer murmurs from No1 Court as the seven-times Wimbledon champion elegantly dissected Tommy Robredo suggested they believe he retains the game to win a record eighth title.
  • (14) The intricate wood carving, the elegant furniture, the panelled walls, the grand entrance hall and the cantilevered stairs are undeniably impressive.
  • (15) Whenever I read Philip French's elegant and thoughtful criticism, I felt like I was in the company of someone who not only loved cinema but who felt a sense of responsibility toward it as an art form.
  • (16) It was not an elegant parting, as Christine Bleakley was pushed out by the BBC on Sunday afternoon , leaving ITV to scramble a contract together for her to sign two hours later.
  • (17) It positioned Kelela as a significant new vocalist, her phrasing indebted to pop but somehow elegantly haunting.
  • (18) The unfairly maligned camel is a model of sleek, practical and elegant design compared with the clumsy creature the coalition has produced.
  • (19) The idea that huge, intractable social issues such as sexism and racism could be affected in such simple ways had a powerful intuitive appeal, and hinted at the possibility of equally simple, elegant solutions.
  • (20) The Elegance room – it sounds like a department of Harrods – sets the grand social portraits of Rubens alongside artists they “influenced”.

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