The best appetizers are composed with elegance and precision.
By turns mournful, anxious and serene, and composed with an elegance that echoes the lapidary beauty of Woolf's writing, Mr. Dresher's music is, alas, mostly incidental to this otherwise awkward and inert attempt to transform a literary masterwork into a living work of theater.
A moment -- of high artifice or raw candor, of posed elegance or composed chaos -- is captured and then, later, delivered to our contemplative gaze.
Too often, Carter sacrifices characterization for one more flickery effect or carefully composed shot of moody elegance, then overdoes unlighted interiors to an almost absurd degree.
Fuzuli composed poetry with equal facility and elegance in Turkish, Persian, and Arabic.
He was, according to George Steiner in the Times Literary Supplement, "a mandarin par excellence who composed for himself a persona of often chilling elegance, a master of the arcana of art history, an inspiring teacher".
Chopin's melodies, like the opening theme for the soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 1, composed in 1830, sing with the long-lined, profoundly melancholic elegance of a bel canto melody.
The Sukhothai Buddha is composed of sinuous curves and cylindrical forms, creating a boneless, weightless elegance.
How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed new novel by Amor Towles stretches out with old-World elegance.
