My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

The three arches are elliptic, and though very light and elegant, have resisted the fury of the river, which has swept away several other bridges at different times.

Gauss usually declined to present the intuition behind his often very elegant proofs — he preferred them to appear " out of thin air " and erased all traces of how he discovered them.

She was said to have had red hair kept in curls, blue eyes, and fair skin and she was very beautiful, intelligent, charming, desirable, elegant, friendly, and gentle, but she was considered to be insane.

Amongst these temples there is one, the principal one, whose great size and magnificence no human tongue could describe ,... All round inside this wall there are very elegant quarters with very large rooms and corridors.

They are very attractive, and elegant in their appearance overall.

I have seen very elegant solutions of Geometrical problems by him.

She is very versatile acting very elegant, intelligent, and refined at times and irrational, boy-crazy, and over-ambitious at others.

Imposing buildings that make up a very elegant architectural unity can be seen along this segment of the city.

For most of the Islamic period the majority of coins only showed lettering, which are often very elegant despite their small size and nature of production.

The figures are very elegant and fine-linked represented: probably a French influence, and, at the same time, an important style characteristic of the Minoritenwerkstatt, which date back until approximately 1360.

On Vogsphere, the Vogons would sit upon very elegant and beautiful gazelle-like creatures, whose backs would snap instantly if the Vogons tried to ride them.

While Dan Leroy wrote that it was not very different from her previous work, and Stephen Holden of The New York Times and Natalie Nichols of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the album was formulaic, other critics, such as Chuck Eddy of Entertainment Weekly, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AMG and Daniel Durchholz, lavished the album as " compelling ", " passionate ", " stylish ", " elegant " and " remarkably well-crafted ".

Throughout the territory under ancient Rome's control, residential architecture ranged from very modest houses to country villas, and in the capital city of Rome, there were imperial residences on the elegant Palatine Hill, from which the word " palace " is derived.

In July 1395, the Duke of Burgundy Philippe the Bold outlawed the cultivation of Gamay as being " a very bad and disloyal plant ", due in part to the variety occupying land that could be used for the more " elegant " Pinot Noir.

It is very similar to the Chiffchaff, but non-singing birds can be distinguished from that species by their paler pinkish-yellow legs ( dark brown to blackish in Chiffchaff ), longer paler bill, more elegant shape and longer primary projection ( wingtip ).

A classical form called gar is very popular, and is distinguished by ornate, elegant and ceremonial music honoring dignitaries or other respected persons.

The mud brick and wood structures at first sight have been described as crude and simple in appearance, but a closer inspection reveals elaborate and delicate patterns on casements and doors, elegant pillars and pillar supports, and a very comfortable and airy living environment.

Jackson portrays Japp as working-class and ' thoroughly British ', not very intelligent but an extremely diligent and active police officer with a good but rather dry sense of humour, characteristics which often serve as a perfect foil to Poirot's personality, who is intelligent, elegant, upper-class but rather slow in movements and of a very serious nature.

* Arguments showing that the elegant unified theory of the Heavens that the philosophers held, which was believed to prove that the Earth was stationary, was incorrect ; for instance, the mountains of the Moon, the moons of Jupiter, and the very existence of sunspots, none of which was part of the old astronomy ( though these are of somewhat doubtful relevance, as none of these phenomena dealt directly with the question of the motion of the earth or sun ).

Some striking applications of ultraproducts include very elegant proofs of the compactness theorem and the completeness theorem, Keisler's ultrapower theorem, which gives an algebraic characterization of the semantic notion of elementary equivalence, and the Robinson-Zakon presentation of the use of superstructures and their monomorphisms to construct nonstandard models of analysis, leading to the growth of the area of non-standard analysis, which was pioneered ( as an application of the compactness theorem ) by Abraham Robinson.

On the barchesse Palladio used the Tuscan order, appropriate to their utilitarian function and for the opportunity they afforded of realising very broad intercolumniations which would not impede carriage access.

`` You are very brave ''.

Families are very interesting.

We are very proud of it ''.

`` At 200, 300, 400 feet under the water, when he must be paying very much attention, he will be thinking about what you are telling him.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.

Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.

What is more, the legends have become so sacrosanct that the very habit of self-examination or self-criticism smells of low treason, and men who practice it are defeatists and unpatriotic scoundrels.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.

Second, our military missile program, going forward so successfully, does not suffer from our present lack of very large rocket engines, which are necessary in distant space exploration.

They are very small, and in the form of haystacks, without either chimney or windows.

I know you are very busy now, you are writing a great deal & your book is coming out, isn't it??

The sand is fine and pleasant, the cabanas are clean, and the parasols, green, raspberry, and butter yellow, are very gay.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

Many of our very best friends are reformers.

But most learn to color and paint as and when they are ready with only a very little demonstration.

The very rules and regulations in every city are the primary case of slum conditions.

The girls, very fetching in their uniforms, are shown firing rockets from a launcher mounted on a dump truck ; ;