Sentence examples for plain elegant from inspiring English sources

(The scene with the dress is echoed later, in Venice, but there it is a question of a feathered headdress versus a plain, elegant shawl).

This double album, recorded at the end of a year-long tour by his Unity Band, is as polished and sophisticated as any, but moments such as the opening melody of This Belongs to You or the gradual unfolding of Born are just plain elegant.

In plain, elegant prose, Cockburn walks the reader through what it means to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, the dilemmas of psychiatric classifications, the history of disorders and their treatments, and the current muddle of law and policy in mental health services.

Known for its plain, elegant prose, trenchant humor and above all, its forthright opinions, "Green Thoughts" is routinely cited by contemporary gardening writers as one of the finest perennials in the genre, placed alongside the work of horticultural eminences like Gertrude Jekyll and Thalassa Cruso.

At the center of everything is a set of Shaker chairs, each as plain and elegant as a hymnbook tune and suspended together in space like a stairway to heaven.

At the center of everything is a set of Shaker chairs, each as plain and elegant as a hymn-book tune and suspended together in space like a stairway to heaven.

Ms. Farzana had deliberated for about a half-hour, and then finally picked out a plain but elegant gold necklace and matching earrings -- weighing about 75 grams -- and paid for it with $800 in cash.

For instance, an art exhibition at the centre displayed side by side the plain, austerely elegant furniture produced by the religious movement known as the Shakers (motto: "Put your hands to work and your hearts to God"), and 30 rapturously gaudy Harley-Davidson motorcycles.America's free-wheeling spirit of cultural conglomeration is nowhere more rampant than in its music.

They are plain, silly, elegant, poignant and flat-out gorgeous.

Knopf; 416 pages; $27.50A plain-spoken, elegant new translation of Sappho's lyrics beautifully presented with the Greek text facing each page by a classicist from McGill University, who has long mined Greek literature to tremendous effect and acclaim in her poetry and essays.___________________________________A Whistling Woman.

With its plain bare tables, elegant inlaid wood floors, high ceilings, whimsically engraved wood walls and soaring glasswork, the dining room suggests a beautifully renovated Prague apartment.