Patronisingly, he admitted that Barnes "does not write inelegantly" and "occasionally turns a sprightly phrase", while pointing out that "A smattering of French cannot conceal the poverty of the author's imagination, and the novel's brevity is, alas, no guarantee against tedium".
Pelzer would no doubt argue that this confusion arises because each book is written from the perspective of the time (as he rather inelegantly puts it, with 'the language and wisdom that was solely developed from my viewpoint as well as that particular time period').
In his acknowledgments, Vann writes, a little inelegantly, that his stories are "fictional, but based on a lot that's true".
But that is the "implement" an assistant commissioner of police, Vasant Dhoble, "carried with him at least once this month as he and his team raided Mumbai's pubs and nightclubs, making boys with gelled hair and girls in high heels flee inelegantly into the night," Mr.Joseph wrote.
Listening to Alain-Fournier and his friends, Eliot learned "not just how to improve his French but also how to raise his game", writes Crawford, a trifle inelegantly.
"Those tall fellows were leaping at the 10-foot baskets and were literally 'dunking' the ball into the hoop, just as a doughnut is inelegantly dipped into the morning coffee," he wrote, with an air of haughty despair.
In a new interview with The Daily Beast, Hardy argued that journalist Graeme Coleman, who writes for the LGBT site Daily Xtra, worded the headline-making question "inelegantly," and the actor felt it was both "disrespectful and counterproductive". .
It's one of a handful of pieces that Nono wrote at the end of his life inspired by a motto he discovered on the walls of a monastery in Toledo in Spain: "Caminante no hay caminos hay que caminar", one of the great aphorisms that's roughly but inelegantly translatable as "traveller, there is no way to travel, only travelling".
"Inelegantly and without my consent, time passed".
"O.K., maybe that was inelegantly stated".
