(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”.
Snazzy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
(2) Then came the comfortable dorm room, the snazzy banquets and the complimentary Peking opera tickets.
(3) He has just launched Fushin’s snazzy food truck .
(4) A snazzy looking nightclub with bouncers who won’t let you in.
(5) Circling a packed peninsula lined with scores of snazzy hotels and designer boutiques, the beaches will be buzzing from January to March, perpetually topped up by a cavalcade of South America's rich and famous.
(6) You don't get to wear the snazzy tear-drop helmets though?
(7) A mix of low prices, snazzy stores and up-to-the-minute fashion delivered a 25% rise in sales for Primarkin the three months to 5 January without a single item sold online.
(8) You find a discreet diplomat, bright white shirt, snazzy blue wool tie, eyes kind behind designer specs.
(9) Paul Gailey invites us all to enter our annual salary into this snazzy gizmo and then feel crushed when it tells us how many years it would take us to earn Andy Carroll's weekly wage.
(10) After snazzy interplay Morgan Schneiderlin fed Pellè, who swept the ball gratefully into the net from close range.
(11) It feels like there have never been so many people pounding pavements – often in snazzy leggings and high-vis, dry-fit tops.
(12) City, led out by Roberto Mancini for now, are wearing snazzy blue tracksuit tops.
(13) • 01485 210262, whitehorsebrancaster.co.uk FISH AND CHIP SHOPS The Rockfish Seafood & Chips , Dartmouth, Devon Photograph: Chris Terry This snazzy chippy, just opened in June, is the new endeavour from Mitch Tonks, the former Fishworks owner.
(14) Lenny is careful to remove his snazzy sunglasses in front of his pals, and tries to conceal the fact that the young Asian woman in his party is in fact his children's au pair.
(15) Dressed in a grey top and checked scarf, she clutches a pair of snazzy black and orange sunglasses, which she taps against her leg for emphasis.