The benefit -- which in good years is referred to without irony or quotation marks as the party of the year, and in its less chic years as the, wink-wink, party of the year -- is one of those big-ticket events that, depending on the decade, can be painfully elegant or frightfully turgid, its grade on the chicometer as temperamental as a spring season's hemline.
No one would mistake my chicken-like scrawl for the elegant loops and lines of a grade school copybook.
Through elegant camera work and use of blockbuster-grade special effects, Guardiola and Abalos reconstruct what they see as a "visual metaphor": an imaginative digital projection of the artist's philosophical approach.
In a very elegant study, Sato and colleagues included 38 poor-grade SAH patients that were treated aggressively.
This elegant charcuterie-cafe offers Angus beef, French cheeses, sushi-grade fish, several types of pâtés and wine by the glass.
–Fine-grade aluminum and distinctive graphics provide an elegant design.
Shafique et al (2012) in an elegant study reported on the relationship between socioeconomic status and grade presentation in a Scottish population from 1991 to 2007.
But there's no need to pack your wig – the Grade II-listed townhouse was recently turned into an elegant 15-room residence for law-abiding folk.
For a Sunday roast, we try the Church Street Townhouse hotel, an elegant yet homely restaurant housed within a delightfully illuminated 400-year-old Grade II-listed building.
In ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE EXQUISITE: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights (Doubleday, $27.95), Jessica Kerwin Jenkins explains that her first was a cunning grade-school jewelry box, "designed to look like a small birdcage with a faux canary swinging behind brass bars.
