BY rights, a visit to the Balsams, a grand and venerable four-star resort in northern New Hampshire, should be about old-style grace and refinement.
Ignaz Günther, the greatest south German sculptor of the 18th century, was trained under Johann Baptist Straub; the elongated forms of Egell's sculpture at Mannheim, however, deeply impressed him, and his development was toward an almost Mannerist grace and refinement.
The movie, which features a nearly silent cameo by Johnny Depp, is carried off with twice the grace, wit and refinement of Mr. Binder's commercially compromised work.
The word "crenellated" doesn't appear anywhere in Shakespeare, but Welles could have invented it, along with a host of other structural terms, to match the plethora of details — the arches and vaults, ribs and columns, arcades and turrets — that fill the frame and conjure a web of social graces and ornamental refinements to which Othello remains, to the end, a stranger.
A gentle, closeted gay man, he brings light to Carthage, gracing the parched town with culture and refinement.
Godly relationships where you will find refinement, love, grace and support.
His elegance and refinement lent an air of grace to every event.
He would soon base the 1970 novel Arfur: Teenage Pinball Queen in his fictionalised New Orleans, now renamed Moriarty ("the foremost city of the nation, a compound of refinement and squalor, grace and depravity"), where there were now beautifully named quarters of Cohn's own making – Jitney, Cicero and Savoy, "the wealthy St Jude and the shanty Canrush".
Now, after the recent downturn, a troubled sport prays for the emergence of someone with his combination of aggression and refinement, of brutality and subtlety, of ego-driven ambition and an almost feline grace.
Barbara Carroll, who won last year's Mabel award, brought a similar grace, understanding, classical refinement and charm to "Be Careful, It's My Heart" and "Blue Skies".
And "Still Lives" needs editing and refinement.
