Sentence examples for elegant wording from inspiring English sources

He reminds us that the 'cryptic' crossword is a very British institution (perhaps Gordon Brown could add it to his 'Britishness' portfolio) and advises his fellow setters to aim at 'accuracy, economy and wit, with, if possible, that elusive marriage of a brilliant idea with elegant wording that lifts a clue into the alpha-plus class.

(The elegant word "dis" had not yet been coined).

I hope we are not losing "plethora", because it is a useful, elegant word.

"This was not a matter of elegant words or a certain stance.

These are elegant words, but what precisely do they mean for the study and practice of economics today?

Westerners often mistook his elegant words and his well-cut suits for an adherence to democratic values.

He wrote on an elegant word-processing program, and exchanged e-mails with other people at PARC, on the world's first Ethernet network.

—From "A Kumquat for John Keats," by Tony Harrison The poet captured the kumquat with elegant words, but the cook needs different tools.

Deddie stayed for five days in a care home for the elderly officially designated as 'adequate', and described, in her own precise, elegant words, what happened.

The other theatrical knights of his generation (Gielgud, Guinness, Richardson, Redgrave) were all, for want of a more elegant word, gents.

Again, his elegant words did not challenge America's support of Israel, right or wrong, or its alliances with Arab dictators in the interest of pragmatism.