Sentence examples for ancient elegance from inspiring English sources

"Ancient elegance and new opulence are all tangled up in a dazzling blur of op and pop.

I sit with him in a cafe in the main square at Krakow - a city not far from Auschwitz - which has somehow, miraculously maintained its ancient elegance in spite of Poland's tragic and turbulent history as a crossroads of European violence.

The music also recalls the lapidary elegance of the ancient plainchant traditions that Duruflé held dear.

'Iki' is the ancient Japanese understanding of understated elegance, a concept that has proved useful in the translation of the rules of the European and North American suit to other contexts.

The ancient gold and bronze jewelry has the elegance of the modern.

The spare lines and steady motion of his "Syzygia," inspired by ancient Greek rhetoric, had an austere, architectural elegance.

AUCTIONS AND ANTIQUES The sober elegance of the art of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Near East sets the tone this week.

On stage they still look magnificent, and actors Kenton Moore, Jeremy Wallis and David Rowley - forbidden to put on weight on peril of splitting ancient seams -the very image of martial elegance.

Although Richard Tanner does not use any period steps in his "Ancient Airs and Dances"; he evokes the elegance and playfulness of Renaissance and Baroque styles, just as Respighi does musically in the score to which the ballet is set.

They would make pots, he said, that would "captivate them with the Elegance and simplicitie of the Ancients".

No matter – these bookends, inspired by the ancient Greek sculpture Marathon Boy, will lend a classical elegance to any library.