Sentence examples for lacking elegance from inspiring English sources

He writes the way Grant fought: lacking elegance of means, he covers an immense area of ground, thoroughly and relentlessly, capturing his objectives one by one.

The composers were born less than a year apart, and each accused the other of lacking elegance.

Boris Gruzin's conducting lacked elegance.

Perhaps on closer inspection it is not the model that lacks elegance.

In 1967, the legendary designer Edith Head, who felt they lacked elegance, banned them from the Academy Awards.

Here and throughout the program Mr. Watkins played with commitment, although he often lacked elegance and subtlety.

Not that his performances lacked elegance or poetry, a word still associated with Chopin above all other composers.

His political style lacked elegance; he preferred the scathing to the subtle, the head butt to the rapier.

Hidebound by its form and without much intellectual daring, Auburn's play lacks elegance, unlike the maths proofs it describes.

To passengers in the low-flying airplanes approaching La Guardia Airport the boats might resemble centipedes, but those creatures lack elegance.

Though he sang with lusty sound, energy and flair, he lacked elegance and subtlety, and delivered too many of his lines from the front of the stage, face forward, arms thrust, as if to show off his big voice.