Nobody was paying any attention at all to the Civil War muzzle-loaders or the elegant over-and-under fowling pieces.
(The visual rhymes of the flashbacks are artifices that have little to do with the workings of the mind and everything to do with the elegant papering-over, via illustrations, of the script construction).
With a brusque, painterly touch, he made elegant all-over abstractions and big, colorful storytelling pictures manned with aircraft, ships, animals and cryptic lists of numbers, letters and words (Johnson).
That is why you can now buy Dior sports shoes (a kind of sneaker that is fortunately much more elegant than the over-large confections of the hip-hop world) and baggy Versace jeans.
The West Coast imagery and elegant minimalism carries over to the packaging of these products, and at first glance they look like something you'd find in a raw vegan organic supermarket.
Some shots particularly front foot drives are to this day considered more elegant, to be purred over by purists.
"I have watched Future Systems produce an amazing range of elegant buildings over the years and his most famous is Selfridges in Birmingham," he said.
Even in 1994, the triumph of M People's Elegant Slumming over Blur's Parklife raised eyebrows; a decade later, it calls the sanity of the judges into question.
Voted "Side-saddle Personality of the Year", there are countless photos of her - horsey, saucy and impossibly elegant soaring over Grand National-style fences.
He won at the fourteenth time of asking, for "Blade Runner 2049," having conjured much of his most elegant work, over the years, for the Coen brothers.
