Memorable refrains, hard beats, elegant rhymes: this album succeeds mainly by sticking to a simple but effective formula.
At the same time, a similar grand structure sits alone without fuss or bother, just working hard in elegant industrial simplicity.
It is hilarious, hard-edged, delightful, harsh, elegant and fun.
"When you're dealing with an economic crisis, it's hard to achieve elegant communications," said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama's top strategist.
Tóibín pushes the glaring contradictions hard in his elegant, economical portrait of the influential chatelaine of Coole Park, Co Galway, but never unfairly.
Some photographers are working so hard to be elegant that they pummel you with it, but to Herb it came effortlessly.
With Jeff Tain Wattsts, one of the hardest and most elegant drummers around, the sets should be pure energy.
It is hard to out-elegant Fauré, whose songs opened the recital, but Taneyev comes close in the quietly longing melody of "People Sleep".
MARK LANEGAN -- This former Screaming Trees frontman and sometime Queens of the Stone Age singer just released his sixth solo album, an elegant, hard-bitten disc called "Bubblegum" (Beggar's Banquet).
Francis Baudevin makes elegant, hard-edged, geometric wall paintings exactingly based on actual corporate logos; Mathieu Mercier glues toothpaste, candy and roach trap boxes together into abstract, Constructivist-style structures; and Nic Hess created an expansive, faux-brick wall out of brown plastic packing tape (Johnson).
