(1) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
(2) Bad scientific writing involves more than stylistic inelegance: it is often the outward and visible form of an inward confusion of thought.
(3) Link to video I can’t entirely explain how and why she grew – suddenly, inelegantly, cartoonishly – from highly able political staffer rushing between engagements to talisman.
(4) Later, we feed inelegantly on lapas (dollar-sized grilled limpets) swimming in garlic butter at lively Garrouchada (meals around €14pp plus wine, Rua Dr Luis Bettencourt), in Vila do Porto, Santa Maria’s three-road “capital”.
(5) A young woman in a good health noticed the occurrence of inelegant wrinkled plaques on her trunk and limbs.
(6) Dr James Thompson , senior lecturer in psychology at University College London, said Boris had been "inelegant" in his choice of words.
(7) Although the modern, elegant antifungal agents with their complex vehicles are quite effective, one sometimes becomes nostalgic for the old-fashioned, inelegant but effective Whitfield's ointment (salicylic acid and benzoic acid) with its simple, nonsensitizing petrolatum base.
(8) Some central banks might even be forced to pump more funds into their economies through those inelegantly titled quantitative-easing programmes just to keep inflation from sinking again into negative territory.
(9) I danced around with design, coming up with the simplest and least inelegant solutions, and that’s where we’ve been for 30 years now.
(10) Hollande said Sarkozy's targeting of his partner in the campaign was "inelegant".
(11) British voters, the business community and potential students from abroad are all more intelligent than last week's inelegant volte-face gave them credit for.
(12) This inelegant compromise is what multilateral progress on climate change looks like.
(13) Said corner causes a little panic, with Kah preparing to force it goalwards when an RSL boot gets it clear, slightly inelegantly.
(14) Alan never liked to exert himself in the field or throw himself around, possibly because he thought it would look inelegant.
(15) However, this procedure is not without difficulties, and the usual technique of employing various crushing clamps for division of the colo-rectal septum is inelegant, inconvenient and uncertain.
(16) When, as seems almost inevitable, the building of the Libyan peace starts getting untidy and inelegant to watch, let us remember that when we did it our way in Iraq and Afghanistan , it wasn't exactly a success either.
(17) Until he does, one can’t really imagine the American president particularly swayed by remarks that conform to the pattern of Abbott’s international trip – of yet more empty rhetoric, more inelegant diplomacy and yet another awkward moment for a burgeoning national cringe.
(18) • At a hastily arranged press conference at 10pm ET last night, Romney said the video had caught him speaking off the cuff and inelegantly .
(19) Thompson, co-author of Cognitive Capitalism, said: "What Boris Johnson has done is inelegantly describe things which in fact do seem to be true: intelligence, however you assess it, is predictive.
(20) "Believe me, I've seen it before, 2,000 times," says Juan Manuel, as I haul myself inelegantly into the saddle.
Refinement
Definition:
(n.) The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.
(n.) That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patients had a high AP, consumed more alcohol, were more well-fed, older and consumed more refined carbohydrates per 1 kg bw and less cholesterol and vegetable protein.
(2) After restrained least-squares refinement of the enzyme-substrate complex with the riboflavin omitted from the model, additional electron density appeared near the pyrophosphate, which indicated the presence of an ADPR molecule in the FAD binding site of PHBH.
(3) Well-refined x-ray structures of the liganded forms of the wild-type and a mutant protein isolated from a strain defective in chemotaxis but fully competent in transport have provided a molecular view of the sugar-binding site and of a site for interacting with the Trg transmembrane signal transducer.
(4) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
(5) Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) was conceptualized more than 35 years ago, but its clinical application only flourished in the past 10 years after a number of technical refinements.
(6) In 1984 the press-fit condylar knee was first introduced and was intended to provide a condylar knee system primarily for posterior cruciate retention that addressed refinements in metallurgy, prosthetic geometry and sizing, cementless fixation, inventory management, and instrumentation.
(7) Obviously, the sheer number of lasers being used both clinically and experimentally indicates a great potential for further advancement and refinement in technique and surgical outcomes.
(8) Phases from x-ray structure factors (R = 0.43) computed from this model were then used in the calculation of another electron density map against which the model was further refined.
(9) Staging classifications are being refined to reflect increasing knowledge of important prognostic indicators, e.g., absence or presence of lymph node involvement, pattern of lymph node involvement, and absence or presence of visceral disease.
(10) The ordered aspect of the genetic code table makes this result a plausible starting point for studies of the origin and evolution of the genetic code: these could include, besides a more refined optimization principle at the logical level, some effects more directly related to the physico-chemical context, and the construction of realistic models incorporating both aspects.
(11) The structure of Mn(III) superoxide dismutase (Mn(III)SOD) from Thermus thermophilus, a tetramer of chains 203 residues in length, has been refined by restrained least-squares methods.
(12) Based on the refined atomic coordinates of the tRNAphe in the orthorhombic crystal, on the recent advances in the distance dependence of the ring-current magnetic field effects and on the adopted values for the isolated hydrogen-bonded NH resonances, a computed spectrum consisting of 23 protons was constructed.
(13) It can be used as a simple screening procedure to help determine which of many possible anthelmintic control strategies should be selected for more detailed examination in the field, and it provides a theoretical framework within which ideas concerning the epidemiology of parasitic gastroenteritis can be assessed and refined.
(14) The advances in lid and orbital surgery are due to the improvements made in diagnostic equipment and to technical refinements.
(15) The group’s refining business performed better than expected, more than doubling profit to $2.2bn from $1bn.
(16) They also suggest that both the migration of cortical neurons on glia and the refinement of the mapping between the peripheral whisker field and its cortical representation may depend upon the distribution of substrate adhesion molecules.
(17) Thus the present study gives support for a protective effect associated with a fiber-rich or vegetable-rich diet, while it indicates that frequent consumption of refined starchy foods, eggs and fat-rich foods such as cheese and red meat is a risk factor for colo-rectal cancer.
(18) Synthesis and discussion is focused on five major areas in which gerontological continuity and change are evidenced: 1) transformation of basic themes over time; 2) gerontology's identity crisis; 3) the social ideology of gerontology; 4) evolution and refinement of gerontological ideas and methods; and 5) temporal frameworks.
(19) The course content and format were refined after 11 pharmacists completed a pilot program.
(20) This has led to important advances in our understanding of the mechanism of axonal guidance, the physiology of neurotrophic factors and the establishment and refinement of neural connections.