But the builder persisted, and the architect eventually produced an elegant, dramatically lit expanse with an all-glass entrance, sunken seating areas and mirrored walls, tropical plantings, and suspended birdcages with warbling songbirds.
The restaurant is elegant and dramatically lovely, but the dining experience is marred by the food's unexpected, sometimes disconcerting turns.
Outside of Italy, the repertory had languished for decades when Maria Callas appeared in the early 1950s and demonstrated that operas like "Lucia di Lammermoor" and Bellini's "Norma" were not just showcases for coloratura virtuosity but musically elegant and dramatically gripping works as well.
If anything, Mr. Domingo's performance this time, with James Levine once again in the pit, was dramatically deeper and more vocally elegant.
One was an applause-getting fast spin with a dramatically angling upper body for Mr. Goodman, a rangy, elegant young classicist who promises much.
Kevin also cofounded Christopher Norman Inc., which dramatically changed the furnishing fabric industry by weaving elegant, European-style silk in the Far East, thus making silk affordable to the entire interior design market, not just the very rich.
His art, so elegant and beautiful to modern eyes, was dramatically subversive in its day.
Knowledge of bile acid physiology has dramatically evolved from the concept of digestive detergents to an elegant story of bile acid functioning as hormones involved in the modulation of a variety of metabolic processes.
We meandered through the perfectly ordered Chianti countryside studded with elegant cypress trees and into a wilder landscape of thickly wooded hills rucking up dramatically into the sky – big country superimposed on a small, groomed land.
