I thought I'd find a wide, even paralyzing range of options, but everywhere I turned stores were pushing variations on the same style: Unadorned, airy, lean and elegant — the sort of home decor that would not be out of place on an episode of "Mad Men".
The artists brought together in this elegant, dreamy fantasia of sex, politics and violence -- it's an extremely elegant adult comic, sort of an abstract European anime -- include Kahlo, Goya and Velázquez.
This brief tale of an amnesiac never acquires the dramatic urgency to be more than an elegant puzzle, a sort of jeweled Rubik's cube.
But downstairs in the Chinese Room – a sort of elegant opium den with furnishings by Zandra Rhodes – there is no sign of her.
In his political life, Mr. Oppenheimer grounded his opposition to apartheid on humanitarian impulses, often bringing economic principles and a sort of elegant understatement to the argument.
The toque has always been a sort of elegant shape in fashion, but not the Elmer Fudd, which is now just everywhere".
Malcolm cites Richard Avedon as a model, but an even more obvious touchstone is Irving Penn, whose still-lifes of cigarette butts and fading flowers set the standard for this sort of elegant ruin.
Additionally drawing on aspects of her 1992 debut novel The Secret History and the author's own style, the clothes in Tartt are elegant in a Waspy sort of way, all fine knits, silk scarves and red lips.
It is as if she were seeing how far she could push this sort of elegant abstraction before alienating her old audience, which, in terms of approach, is not so different from her button-pushing early work (Kimmelman).
There's charm to spare in this intimate town house restaurant, where Morgen Jacobson, formerly of the Quilted Giraffe, serves up an appealing new American menu that's elegant in a modest sort of way.
