| Perhaps it was not fair to expect him to feel how very much he was her inferior in talent, and all the elegancies of mind. |
| They pitted their work against the reigning elegancies of abstraction, minimalism, and conceptual art. |
| Appointed Public Orator, or showman, of his university, Cambridge, he spent some years in enjoying the somewhat trifling elegancies of life and in truckling to the great. |
| Gathering up her elegancies, she retired defeated, and, as if her departure had loosed a spring, the front door opened at once. |
| She was a great trial to her aunt Felicia, who was a widow and well-to-do, and liked the elegancies and normalities of life. |
| As, in an increasingly visual and non-oral culture, linguistic elegancies fade, their revival and preservation seem worth the effort, even at the cost of a certain campy, parodic note. |
