She also needed to exert control, and never more so than in the calculated way she presented herself to the world -- classy, even haughty, a touch hard, but never dangerous.
Accompanied by Gerri Sutyak on cello, she tackled "La Vie en Rose," the world's classiest saloon song and the legendary Edith Piaf's signature.
Liseberg, Sweden's most popular amusement park, morphs into one of the world's classiest Christmas markets — no creaky Ferris wheels or drunk elves here.
Here's Peter Bradshaw's review of Jeune et Jolie: François Ozon's new film is a luxurious fantasy of a young girl's flowering: a very French and very male fantasy, like the pilot episode of the world's classiest soap opera.
Royal Anthem, bred in Kentucky but raced mainly in Europe, returned to the United States yesterday and showed why he is widely regarded as one of the world's classiest horses when he won the Gulfstream Park Breeders' Cup Handicap in Hallandale, Fla., by three lengths.
On the virtuosity-packed EFG London jazz festival's closing weekend, it was a timely reminder of the underlying grassroots agenda of one of the world's classiest jazz celebrations, and of where the love of music-making often begins – through chance meetings, faltering beginnings, and inspiring guides.
Bavarian Creme BMW, one of the world's classiest auto brands, made $2.8 billion pretax in 2001 more than the combined pretax profits of GM and DaimlerChrysler.
Few things in the world are less classy than smoking crystal meth.
The 23 years which followed produced no more European showpieces but have seen Benfica emerge from a debilitating financial crisis, while somehow retaining their cherished image as one of the world game's classier outfits.
And what do you know: Love Letters is a chintzy 'n' tuneful bargain-bin blast of Sparks and Jona Lewie and Elvis Costello that doesn't quite fulfil the promise of The English Riviera, a cool, classy, us-against-the-world romance which seemed to suggest Metronomy were about to burst out of their funky nerd chrysalis to become a beautiful pop butterfly.
