Sentence examples for conventional elegance from inspiring English sources

If Oehlen has a method, it is to recoil, stroke by stroke, from conventional elegance — strangling one aborning stylistic grace after another.

The idea of contrasting color and texture was often striking, as in a green cardigan over a turquoise dress and leopard-patterned shoes to sprinkle the paprika of bad taste on conventional elegance.

In the canon of Stephen Sondheim-Hal Prince musicals, "Pacific Overtures" (produced in 1976 and now revived by the Roundabout Theatre at Studio 54) falls between the conventional romantic elegance of "A Little Night Music" (1973) and the macabre cynicism of their masterpiece "Sweeney Todd" (1979).

The comparative study of these results with the conventional cascade control structure establishes the elegance of the proposed control scheme.

The comparative study of these results with those obtained in a conventional cascade control architecture establishes the elegance of this new control scheme.

This book demolishes, with far greater precision and elegance than anything by Richard Dawkins, all reasons for conventional religious belief — which Johnston considers idolatry, and a form of "resistance" to real religious apprehension.

But while the Neo-Expressionist challenge to conventional taste was once a liberating alternative to the Modernist elegance of, say, Brice Marden, in Mr. McCarthy's hands today it looks generic.

The elegance of the parameter is the use of conventional Hematoxylin & Eosin-stained slides for histopathological microscopy analysis.

To make matters worse, the elegance of L'Engle's storytelling is sometimes swapped out for conventional Hollywood drama, a change exemplified by the film's explanation of tesseracts — what was an easy-to-follow conversation in the book, complete with unforgettable pen-and-paper diagrams, has become a technobabble-filled PowerPoint presentation at a scientific symposium.

Quantum of Solace isn't as good as Casino Royale: the smart elegance of Craig's Bond debut has been toned down in favour of conventional action.

But the strength of the show, the conventional realism of the emotions of the characters, shines through in Mr. Lepage's acting and in the simple elegance of his visual imagination almost in spite of these overlays.