When he composed his novel, he lavished many of her best attributes beauty, elegance, wit, fortune on the Duchesse de Guermantes.
We might have got something out of the leisurely contemplation of the crumbling brownstone graves where sleep dead merchants and shipmasters of this city, to whom thepreparation and dispatch of a letter was a weighty business desrving their best in elegance of style lucidity of expressionk, and grace of penmanship.
Carry yourself with elegance; best manners, best attire, best behavior.
For, in her world, those deemed to be worthy of impressing, best appreciate low-keyed elegance, elegance that strikes a definitive note of self-control, terming an estate, 'a farm', and favoring dogwood, fern and Solomon's seal-fringed naturalistic pools over any baroque fountain.
Typically the best designs combine elegance with utility.
This trifle of a tale preceded Barbery's best-seller "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" in France but follows it in publication here, which is rather like serving the amuse-bouche after the entrée.
In this fantastical novel by the author of the best-seller "The Elegance of the Hedgehog," two girls born at the same hour on a snowy November day have otherworldly gifts: Clara is an Italian piano prodigy, and Maria, in France, can commune with nature.
At her best, Kwan possesses an elegance and presence no other woman can equal.
Our overall impression of the wines we liked best was one of elegance, not a description often applied to zinfandel.
His masterpiece, El desdén con el desdén ("Contempt with Contempt"), based on parts of four plays of Lope de Vega, is marked, as are all his best plays, by its elegance and faithfulness to real life.
The buildings are part of a philosophical as well as physical expansion for the society, a nonprofit institution founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller III to educate the public about Asia and perhaps best known for the elegance of its headquarters and galleries on Park Avenue at 70th Street.
