On the lawn outside the Montaukett Center stand two large sculptures, "Salsa," a graceful duo, and "Kontest," a pair of battling stilt-men; they, of course, wear only their coating of red paint.
The vast, low-lying sprawl of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital, may soon be relieved by a pair of graceful skyscrapers, but some still recall the beggarwomen who used to squat in the dust by the gates of the king's mudbrick palace, whimpering for alms.
Inside are a pair of massive, graceful Norman arches with zigzag, pie-crust decoration.
The musicians had already moved through several approaches to color and texture — a dark-hued French overture; a pair of light, graceful Menuets; a supple, rubato-laden Sarabande; and a pair of full-throttle fast movements — before arriving at the Plainte, a second slow movement.
"Demi had shoes like that," Ms. Day said, "and I got a pair, except she is much more graceful than I".
The foursome danced a slow and graceful double pas de deux, representing the interaction of pairs of hemoglobin molecules from his 1990 Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. thesis, "Resolving Pathways of Functional Coupling in Human Hemoglobin Using Quantitative Low Temperature Isoelectric Focusing of Asymmetric Mutant Hybrids".
These are the nicknames of the co-owners, Eduard Frauneder and Wolfgang Ban, a pair of Austrian émigrés who also run the graceful Seäsonal, on Fifty-eighth Street, of which Edi & the Wolf is the downtown, down-market iteration.
I could as easily have used a pair of parentheses, specifically designed for the purpose of graceful interjection of useful explication.
During "Message of Love," a pair of sharp guitar chords alternate with Ms. Hynde's graceful vocals; the song sounded slinky and spiky at the same time.
Its remarkable craftsmanship includes graceful details of oak and stone and understated furnishings, among them a pair of luminous Burne-Jones tapestries.
