She reclines on a plinth, braids spilling down her back, her extended right hand fixed in a gesture of elegant command: a queenly figure, her shimmering skin spray-painted an unearthly metallic blue-green.
My admiration for Dr. Geissmar--for her masterful management skills, her courage, her elegant command of English (certainly her second language), her resilience, and her touching devotion to each of these larger-than-life conductors knows no bounds.
A famous sign on the wall in Billy Wilder's office asked, "What would Lubitsch have done?" Wilder meant the question as a tribute to Ernst Lubitsch, his master, mentor and sometime boss -- a comic filmmaker whose elegant and effortless command represented, to Wilder and many others, the apogee of cinematic wit, sophistication and technical precision.
The model was evidently a Hellenic work from Pergamum and the sculptural quality of the figures, the elegant drapery, the command of detail and indeed the whole composition, give a tantalizing idea of what the best of ancient easel painting must have been like.
Mr. Andsnes's performance was commanding, elegant, incisive, rich with wondrous colors and full of imagination.
Sandy was a towering, booming presence, commanding, elegant, initially fearsome, later endearing, witty, sharp, amused.
Of the various mythological figures in the third act, Veronika Part in the evening stood out as Terpsichore, elegant and effortlessly commanding.
An elegant loft that commands the entire 15th floor of the Franklin Tower, an 18-story luxury condominium at 90 Franklin Street in TriBeCa, sold for $13.5 million and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.
pacuarelodge.com All roads lead from San José but instead of staying in the scrappy capital start your trip in the mountains to the north where this elegant little hotel commands wide, open views of verdant coffee plantations from its 13 suites and hilltop pool.
At the end of her long career, as at its beginning, she was elegant, dignified and quietly commanding.
Commanding and elegant, it manages to be both luxurious and comfortable with well-trod Oriental carpets overlaying scuffed wooden floors.
