He was of tall and dignified figure, with blonde hair and lilac eyes, and with a frank and happy expression ; his manners were polished, and he was noted for the elegance of his Latin style.

Sutcliffe lacked the " polished elegance of Hobbs " as he was " essentially a practical batsman with a superb judgment of length, pace and direction ".

Unlike his younger brother, Joe, he never presumed to address her more familiarly than as `` My dear friend '', although he praised and envied the elegance and purity of her style.

The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.

Mr. Papp has directed a performance that has verve and pace, although he has tolerated obvious business to garner easy laughs where elegance and consistency of style would be preferable.

" In particular, he wanted to create a completely different image from that associated with Fred Astaire, not least because he believed his physique didn't suit such refined elegance: " I used to envy his cool aristocratic style, so intimate and contained.

Although high level of stylization, mystical appeal, and surreal elegance were often preferred over realism ( such as in shan shui style ), beginning with the medieval Song Dynasty there were many Chinese painters then and afterwards who depicted scenes of nature that were vividly real.

He won renown for the elegance of his Latin style and his knowledge of philosophy.

She was praised for her elegance, style, and low, " silvery ", beautifully modulated voice.

In Mozart singing, the most important element is the instrumental approach of the vocal sound which implies: flawless and slender emission of sound, perfect intonation, legato, diction and phrasing, capability to cope with the dynamic requirements of the score, beauty of timbre, secure line of singing through perfect support and absolute breath control, musical intelligence, body discipline, elegance, nobility, agility and, most importantly, ability for dramatic expressiveness within the narrow borders imposed by the strict Mozartartian style.

Campbell has evolved his art style, using colour, collage and photo-shop to create art which The Guardian describe as having " a surreal, scruffy elegance ".

The accuracy of these translations and their elegance of style were universally admitted.

Scholarly articles probe the relationship between the Beatles and the nouvelle vague films of Jean-Luc Godard, discuss ' the brio and elegance ' of Dionne Warwick's singing style as a ' pleasurable but complex ' event to be ' experienced without condescension.

In truth, female characters in bishōnen manga are very different from those in bishōjo ; bishōjo females are usually more petite and drawn in a style that is cute rather than beautiful, whereas bishōnen females exhibit the long limbs and elegance of the bishōnen.

His two historical works, the histories of Theodosius I and of Ximenes, are more remarkable for elegance of style than for accuracy and comprehensive insight.

Perpetuating the Sienese tradition, Simone's style contrasted with the sobriety and monumentality of Florentine art, and is noted for its soft, stylized, decorative features, sinuosity of line, and courtly elegance.

He was also much influenced by Michelangelo, but developed his own Mannerist style, with perhaps less emphasis on emotion and more emphasis on refined surfaces, cool elegance and beauty.

John Trumbull told Dunlap that in 1771, being then a student at Harvard College, he called on Copley, who " was dressed on the occasion in a suit of crimson velvet with gold buttons, and the elegance displayed by Copley in his style of living, added to his high repute as an artist, made a permanent impression on Trumbull in favor of the life of a painter.

While Bapu achieved much of his fame sticking to a subtle style of artistic elegance, Ramana announced his entry through a bunch of talkative characters, who try to make no sense out of the sensible world around them, because of their askew point of view.

The Walstein has been compared for elegance and simplicity of style to Voltaire's Charles XII.

In England he developed a version of his style which combined a relaxed elegance and ease with an understated authority in his subjects which was to dominate English portrait-painting to the end of the 18th century.

# Jerome also mentions having read some commentaries on the gospel and on Proverbs, which bore Theophilus's name, but which he regarded as inconsistent with the elegance and style of his other works.

This was thought to be a major improvement in style and elegance in Latin usage.

Pierre Louÿs helped found a literary review, La Conque in 1891, where he proceeded to publish Astarte — an early collection of erotic verse already marked by his distinctive elegance and refinement of style.

All of these statues demonstrated the same elegance and common style identified as " Srivijayan art " that reflects close resemblance — probably inspired — by both Indian Amaravati style and Javanese Sailendra art ( c. 8th to 9th century ).

It has been inferred from the elegance and quiet charm of his lyrics that he only gradually acquired fame towards the end of his life.

As a poet Frugoni was one of the best of the school of the Arcadian Academy, and his lyrics and pastorals had great facility and elegance.

No doubt the underlying idea was to show that for all the elegance and artistry that have distinguished its presentations thus far, it too could give a circus if it pleased.

Conceding his gift of eloquence, Burke deplored Rousseau's lack of the good taste and finer feelings that would have been imparted by the education of a gentleman: Taste and elegance ... are of no mean importance in the regulation of life.

Its compactness and elegance have made it popular with educators, language designers, programmers, implementors, and hobbyists.

This is particularly so in the case of temples where each building appears to have been conceived as a sculptural entity within the landscape, most often raised on high ground so that the elegance of its proportions and the effects of light on its surfaces might be viewed from all angles.

Private restoration efforts have returned many of the downtown buildings to their turn-of-the-twentieth-century elegance.

Many of the properties in the Imperial Park and Bellvue Estates have lost their original elegance with the lowering of chimney stacks, inappropriate replacement of windows and doors with modern PVCu, the loss of hedged fronts to brick walls or fencing, and paving over front gardens for parking.

Charles Baudelaire was deeply interested in dandyism, and memorably wrote that a dandy aspirant must have " no profession other than elegance ... no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons ...

Whereas modernist art sought to redeem and sacralize the world, to give life to world ( we might say, following Graff, to give the world back the enchantment that science and the decline of religion had taken away from it ), postmodernist art bestows upon the world a " deathly quality … whose glacéd X-ray elegance mortifies the reified eye of the viewer in a way that would seem to have nothing to do with death or the death obsession or the death anxiety on the level of content " ( ibid .).

In Circa 89 in a review of Camille Souter's joint show with Nano Reid, Vona Groarke writes: " Camille Souter's paintings have a statuesque elegance to them, even when the subject is something as banal as silage bags.

Plantings of Cabernet Franc in Tuscany have been increasing in recent years, particularly in the Bolgheri and Maremma region where the grape is prized for the balance and elegance that it brings to blends.

Other characters frequently comment on Rei's beauty and elegance — in her first appearance, these traits even lead Luna to suspect that she could be the Princess they have been searching for.

Seldom have I heard a case presented with such precision, clarity and elegance of language ".

For instance, Carnival Corporation owns both Carnival Cruise Lines, whose former image were vessels that had a reputation as " party ships " for younger travelers, but have become large, modern, and extremely elegant, yet still profitable, and Holland America Line, whose ships cultivate an image of classic elegance.

While Pope may have been fascinated by her wit and elegance, Lady Mary's replies to his letters reveal that she was not equally smitten.

Instead of relying on this triple of jointly defined physical concepts, some writers, motivated by a desire for axiomatic parsimony and precision or mathematical elegance, prefer to define thermal equilibrium by relying on a presupposed notion of thermodynamic equilibrium, in which all mechanically measurable properties of a body have become stationary, and one infers that consequently the otherwise undefined thermal properties also are stationary.

From 1687 to 1700 he resided in Paris, where he learned thoroughly the principal European languages, acquired the superficial elegance of the court of Versailles, and associated with the Jesuits, whose moral system he is said to have appropriated.

In one of the letters, regarding Levi-Civita's new work, Einstein wrote " I admire the elegance of your method of computation ; it must be nice to ride through these fields upon the horse of true mathematics while the like of us have to make our way laboriously on foot ".

But, on the other hand, he did not equally succeed in attaining elegance, an object at which he seems equally to have aimed.

Many will consider the XM to have outstanding elegance and style, a brilliant car that stands out among the current crop of jelly-mould, computer-designs.

" In the film, Lusha was said to have " glimmered with an innate aura of elegance and grace.

The book is considered one of the best on the foundations of the English language, and how those foundations can be and have been used to write English with elegance and distinction.

It was in the post-war films that he made on his return to France that some critics have observed a new maturity and emotional depth, accompanied by a prevailing sense of melancholy but still framed by the elegance and wit that characterised his earlier work.

But his anxiety not to fall behind his classical models — the chief of whom was Virgil -- his striving after elegance and grammatical correctness, and a desire to avoid the commonplace have produced a turgid and affected style, which, aggravated by rhetorical exaggerations and popular barbarisms, makes his works difficult to understand.

Many artists have continued in the spirit of net. art ; an example is Aaron Koblin, whose pieces based on crowdsourcing combine whimsy, elegance, and subversiveness.