Sentence examples for elegant drawing from inspiring English sources

One of the five Olympic rings, fashioned in the form of giant snowflakes, failed to open properly, but apart from that the opening ceremony was typically grandiose and elegant, drawing attention to the more glorious moments of Russian culture – its composers, art and dance heritage.

There's nothing genteel about Mr. Dews's production; there are no elegant drawing rooms or scenic locations.

Afternoon tea or evening drinks beside a real log fire in an elegant drawing room/lounge was a wonderful experience.

Although this elegant drawing room seems her natural habitat, Ms. Roehm grew up middle class in Missouri.

With "an elegant drawing", he demonstrated how "light, cheerful-coloured waterproof curtains" would hang on a wooden frame.

We're talking in the serene and elegant drawing room of McEwan and McAfee's lovely house in central London.

Porro's Gentle chair, designed by the Swedish collective Front, looked like an elegant line drawing of a chair — that is, not exactly promising comfort — but its leather-covered back turned out to be surprisingly flexible.

It's an elegant thesis, drawing on a lush, literate kaleidoscope of sources, from John Milton to Lewis Carroll to Karl Popper.

His life overlapped that of Parmigianino (1503-1540), a master of elegant figure drawing who probably worked with him as a youth.

Sarah Hughes, the 14-year-old from Great Neck, N.Y., also skated an elegant routine, drawing out her jumps nicely and taking second place.

They included a Leon Golub lithograph of a political martyr rendered in strident red and black, an elegant charcoal drawing circa 1905 by Arthur B. Davies and an etching of an intensely craggy mountain by the German artist Lovis Corinth.