Our correspondent surveys the patchwork of artsRyanair on rails France's high-speed TGV trains are admired the world over for their sleekness, speed and beautiful design.
THEY are admired the world over for their sleekness, speed and sheer French chic.
Hence, the 19th-century term copperplate hand usually connotes calligraphic showiness and sleekness.
He designed seaplanes (used largely for racing) between 1922 and 1931 and by 1936 had designed and developed the Spitfire, more than two dozen versions of which were eventually created before and after his death and which was known for its aerodynamic sleekness and maneuverability.
Its elegance and sleekness fits perfectly with gameplay that makes you think (what a rarity!).
A technical experiment in pitting equal forces against each other (no forced gallantry or wilting rosebuds here), there's certainly little to choose between Cira Robinson and Jacob Wye, in matchy-matchy sapphire vests and shorts, in terms of sleekness, speed and elan, though you're left thinking both might have softened up and smiled more.
In the preliminaries, her strength and athleticism was there, but her dark bay hide looked wintry compared with her rivals' summer sleekness.
In February, the Sadler's Wells Flamenco Festival includes an enticing Gala Flamenco featuring Rocío Molina, a dancer of velvet sleekness and fierce intensity.
He describes the difficulty of rendering the crowiness of a crow, 'the barefaced, bandit thing... the macabre pantomime ghoulishness and the undertaker sleekness... the unkillable biological optimism'.
And 40 years on, Antonio Marras continues the work of the label's founder, with airy collections that combine his own concept of European sleekness with the label's traditional whimsy.
Much as she would have appreciated the sleekness of Liverpool's play, it would not have escaped her attention that much of it came from foreign boots.
