The elegant, ambitious Prince Lucian Koslowski (Tuomas Hil) arrives from the provinces determined to make his fortune.
Others, too, felt that Gielgud's elegant but damaged prince expressed the intricate emotions of a deeply troubled era.
Eventually he is revealed as a ballet prince in elegant leotard and tights, his hair a punkster's startling red.
Yet, on careful comparison, the most stylistically elegant version of "The Prince" remains George Bull's nearly fifty-year-old translation, a taut and almost Hemingwayesque account of Machiavelli's strong republican prose.
His guests are being served the elegant food associated with the prince's kitchen.
Hard to know too which was the more exotic: the prince in his elegant grey summer suit, breezing past a poster explaining local slang terms ("When you is chilling, you is cotchin"), or the audience of young Londoners anxious to give him their views.
Cinderella and The Prince have an elegant dance, which enchants The Price and wins his heart.
As white settlers moved into traditional Nez Perce lands, a successful trade in horses enriched the Nez Perce, who in 1861 bred horses described as "elegant chargers, fit to mount a prince".
Later in the film, when Christie, in the role of the beautiful, bored, young model, marries an Italian prince, she changes to expensive, elegant gowns.
Later, at the conclusion of a most elegant dinner in the Queen's Gallery, Prince Charles introduced the speaker of the evening.
