We are acquainted with an interesting and puzzling realm of experience: the realm of the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, and the elegant; of taste, criticism, and fine art; and of contemplation, sensuous enjoyment, and charm.
Whenever I read Philip French's elegant and thoughtful criticism, I felt like I was in the company of someone who not only loved cinema but who felt a sense of responsibility toward it as an art form.
This collection will appeal to those looking for a model of blunt, elegant and unflinching criticism at a time when novelists tend to go rather easy when reviewing their colleagues.
Kenneth Tynan: Elegant theater critic.
Most of the book, however, involves Barnes turning his keen wit and elegant phrasing to literary and film criticism rather than to the world around him.
Mingling philosophy, poetry, criticism and description, the book is an elegant pilgrimage through Spanish art and history.
It's an elegant book with a perfect ratio of reportage, biography and criticism.
The timing of one of her posts created outrage in some quarters, but her "elegant," soft-focus Insta-life has sailed on, unimpeded by criticism.
This political and cultural analysis encapsulates in an elegant 90 pages Morrison's thinking, whose relevance reaches far beyond literary criticism.
By the 1970s Lúcio Costa's city plan had attracted criticism for its grandiosity, its rigid form and the isolation of its elegant, greenery-swathed apartment buildings.
