Sentence examples for defiant elegance from inspiring English sources

Van Deman used her view cameras not only to document the crumbling stone structures of a once-proud empire but also to catch their defiant elegance.

But with shrewdness and elegance, a defiant insistence on the subject's purity, Marsh tacitly allows us to realise the various parallels but says not a word about them.

Rachel Wetzsteon, a prominent poet whose work was known for its mordant wit, formal elegance and cleareyed examination of the solitary yet defiant lives of single women, was found dead on Monday at her home in Manhattan.

Wonderful elegance!

(Defiant glance).

"That's real elegance".

Has she elegance?

Elegance personified.

Grace, calm and elegance?

Elegance steadies him.

"Elegance is refusal".