Sentence examples for overly elegant from inspiring English sources

His overly elegant faux-classical style is a problem, though: it's as if a string quartet were playing Coltrane Johnsonn).

"Let's not torture words!" was the only specific directive I can recall ever getting from him, presumably in response to some overly "elegant" sentence in a speech draft.

No wonder later Fontanas, with clean cuts in clean, monochrome fields, often look overly elegant and inert, like the three examples here.

This is a very large and not overly elegant book; committing to it is like committing to a marriage, or to a car lease, or to climbing Everest.

Interesting conceptual complexities may be discovered in Mr. Fomsgaard's work, but his overly elegant, faux classical, grid-bound style dampens the potential excitement.

Given the size of the hall and the subtlety of Mr. Ax's playing, the effect might have come across as overly elegant.

Too elegant.

I savored every bite of dinner in the elegant if overly bright Charles Court restaurant overlooking the lake in the West Complex: a subtly piquant smoked chicken consommé, pan-seared shrimp and scallops, and molten chocolate cake for dessert (hey, I earned it).

The setting for the fund-raiser was elegant but not overly so, a loft and rooftop patio at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan, with an open bar and shrimp hors d'oeuvres.

Alice H. Lichtenstein, a professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts University, said the Hegsted equation was still used and remained a "very reliable index, and an elegant and not overly complicated approach" to the study of serum cholesterol.

The small, few-block district also has a chocolate shop, elegant but not overly expensive restaurants and bars, a dog boutique and other unique shops that make for a nice girls' day out or a fun stroll with the family.