The Apollo Lyceus (, Apollōn Lukeios ) type, also known as Lycean ApolloThe attribution, based on the type's " elongated proportions, elegant pose and somewhat effeminate anatomy ", as Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway characterised it, is traditionally supported on the grounds of the type's similarity to Praxiteles's Hermes from Olympia-one replica of the Lycian Apollo even passed as a copy of the Hermes for a time.

On 25 February 1754 Taylor laid the first stone of the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, opened 12 May 1756, and described by John Wesley ( 23 December 1757 ) as ‘ perhaps the most elegant one in all Europe ,’ and too fine for ‘ the old coarse gospel .’ In his opening sermon, Taylor, who had received ( 6 April ) the diploma ( dated 20 January ) of D. D.

A February 1909 match with Philadelphia Jack O ' Brien was attended by society leaders including women in elegant evening gowns.

* SIGNATURE STYLE: Duncan McDuffie-Natural neighborhoods: Visionary developer created elegant urban ' residential parks ', San Francisco Chronicle, Dave Weinstein, February 7, 2004

William Whewell refused all requests for a review to avoid dignifying the " bold, speculative and false " work, but was the first to give a response, publishing Indications of a Creator in mid February 1845 as a slim and elegant volume of " theological extracts " from his writings.

The Old Executive Building or Kalayaan Hall, elegant with its high arched windows, was constructed in 1920 and enlarged over the years until 1939.

The postage stamp resolved this issue in a simple and elegant manner, with the additional benefit of room for an element of beauty to be introduced.

However, the lack of a correct theory of quantum gravity is an important issue in cosmology and the search by physicists for an elegant " Theory of Everything " ( TOE ).

To resolve the issue, courts created an elegant solution: a corporation is a person, and could therefore sue and be sued, and thus be held accountable for its debts.

The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in other ways: they traveled with a black orchestra, had an openly lesbian manager, and were animal-rights advocates decades before it became a public issue.

If the key issue is bank solvency, converting debt to equity via bondholder haircuts presents an elegant solution to the problem.

* Marie Doro in elegant Ball Gown photographed in Vanity Fair April 1916

Fair Grove had an elegant cafe and a hotel second to none in the country.

A trip to England in 1825 included visits to Thomas Lawrence and Richard Parkes Bonington, and the colour and handling of English painting provided impetus for his only full-length portrait, the elegant Portrait of Louis-Auguste Schwiter, ( 1826 – 30 ).

Jean finishes Marie's portrait, but instead of painting her wearing the elegant outfit she chose for the sitting, he outfits her in the simple dress she wore on the night she left for Paris.

He first worked as a designer of elegant sets for several portrait photographers ' studios ( including that of Edward Steichen ), which may well have instilled in him his great talent: a strong feeling for space and an ability to move his camera through that space in such a way as to embody it in film's two-dimensional format.

Simhavishnu's portrait can be seen in the stone engraving at the Adivaraha Mandap, an elegant shrine at Mahabalipuram.

This miniature is an elegant moonlit portrait of Muhammad Farrukh Siyar Padshah smoking a hookah with a female attendant

The Age of Federalism, 1788-1800, co-authored by Elkins and Eric McKitrick, was described as a " dazzling book ," featuring an " elegant and penetrating pen portrait of Hamilton.

This is the first real portrait of an English king, and heavily influenced by Carolingian style, with an elegant inhabited acanthus border.

The New York Times called the book " a beautifully wrought, rounded portrait of the whole woman, including the part of her that remained in shade during her life ..." and said the " expansive, elegant biography ... can stand as literature, if nothing else.

Mostaert's portrait work of this earlier period includes a piece entitled " Portrait of Abel van den Coulster " ( c. 1500-10 ), in which an elegant, thin-faced man is situated in equally elegant surroundings.

Founded August 24, 1690 by Job Charnock of the East India Company, and commonly called `` The City of Palaces '', it seemed a vast and elegant place to Ann Hasseltine Judson.

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.

Naturally, Mr. Deller and the other singers in his troupe are most charming and elegant when they are squarely in their tradition and singing music by their countrymen: William Byrd, Thomas Morley and Thomas Tomkins.

a program is ' elegant ,' by which I mean that it's the smallest possible program for producing the output that it does "

In the 18th century, Baroque Art was replaced by the more elegant and elaborate Rococo style.

Characterized by elegant and refined yet playful subject matters, Boucher's style became the epitome of the court of Louis XV.

However many of the other features of OOP are ( intentionally ) missing, notably inheritance, and the language is also hindered by a sometimes frustrating if elegant syntax.

While in a trance the Pythia " raved " – probably a form of ecstatic speech – and her ravings were " translated " by the priests of the temple into elegant hexameters.

Maxwell's equations can be written in tensor form, generally viewed by physicists as a more elegant means of expressing physical laws.

Dolley Madison popularized the First Ladyship by engaging in efforts to assist orphans and women, by dressing in elegant fashions and attracting newspaper coverage, and by risking her life to save iconic treasures during the War of 1812.

Histories of the Kings and heroes of the Danes, composed in elegant style by Saxo Grammaticus, a Sjællander and also provost of the church of Roskilde, over three hundred years ago, and now for the first time illustrated and printed correctly in a learned compilation.

Far east traditional painting is characterized by water based techniques, less realism, " elegant " and stylized subjects, graphical approach to depiction, the importance of white space ( or negative space ) and a preference for landscape ( instead of human figure ) as a subject.

" The third record by his biracial L. A. band is wild and funny and totally pioneering: folk rock turned into elegant Armageddon with the symphonic sweep and mariachi-brass drama of ' Alone Again Or ' and ' You Set the Scene.

Here, the ships are described as elegant and ornately decorated, and used by those who went raiding and plundering.

Max Planck's early advocacy of the special theory, along with the elegant formulation given to it by Minkowski, contributed much to the rapid acceptance of special relativity among working scientists.

Now in her late thirties, Pickford was unable to play the children, teenage spitfires and feisty young women so adored by her fans, nor could she play the sleekly elegant heroines of early sound.

Moses is a central figure in the Deuteronomist account of the origins of the Israelites, cast in a literary style of elegant flashbacks told by Moses.

The préfecture is located in the palace built by the intendant of Montauban ( the equivalent of a préfet before the French Revolution ), and is a large elegant 18th century mansion, built of pink bricks and white stone, with a steep roof of blue gray slates, in a style combining northern and southern French styles of architecture.

" A common feature of all four multiverse levels is that the simplest and arguably most elegant theory involves parallel universes by default.

A more elegant solution is the mechanically-driven low-friction design also driven by the groove.

The general approach to deriving a quantum gravity theory that is valid at even the highest energy scales is to assume that such a theory will be simple and elegant and, accordingly, to study symmetries and other clues offered by current theories that might suggest ways to combine them into a comprehensive, unified theory.