The author and playwright stripped away the "inelegance" and "stuff'" of the world in pursuit of perfect prose.
It's a committed performance and Young sings with familiar withering inelegance, but it has to be said that, denuded of their tasteful studio arrangements, not all of the songs stand up well to this kind of exposure.
Later a professor of classical antiquity, she was acutely conscious of the difference between the common Berlin dialect and the High German of the educated which makes some of the clumsy inelegance in her narrative surprising.
The show's title, "Measuring Your Own Grave," epitomizes Dumas's punctilious inelegance.
Greenberg described Eakins's manner as "a neutral, natural style not so much because it was shared with others as because of the honesty and appropriateness with which he used it, without flourishes, without 'retouching,' without either elegance or inelegance".
But within that turbulence will be, finally, an explanation for what it means to know something when one sees it, or for what the "great liquid whip" of Roger Federer's forehand and the "whip-like thrashing" of the roundworm tell us about string theory, or for how it came to be that three pounds of inelegance thought up such a concept as elegance in the first place.
The startling power of the music derived partly from its inelegance: poky, sullen introductions led to off-kilter paroxysms, as the drummer frantically tried to keep pace with the hoarse singer, Roger Miret.
How proud he was of its garish colors and its holes and dropped stitches, the inelegance of it all.
The inelegance of most PowerPoint presentations is just ridiculous — and must be ridiculed.
Throughout, Ms. Castle sang with conviction and vividly conveyed the character of each poem, compensating for occasional moments of vocal inelegance.
But he's disarmed by Oz's good manners, and even more delighted to discover that they share an affection for words: Oz casually drops the arcane "malefic" into the conversation — he'd previously astonished Sue with "eschew" — and soon Howard and Oz are sharing a morning sherry to toast their belief that, as Oz puts it with atypical inelegance, "It's language differs us from animals".
