The way the Dutch government handled the affair was not elegant, to say the least.

She's elegant and refined.

Mannequins wear elegant wedding dresses.

Ariana's an elegant Japanese woman!

DNA is a very elegant molecule.

William Ury, author of Getting to Yes, offers an elegant, simple way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East.

It just seems like it's not sexy and elegant, it's hidden.

There are, unfortunately, some logical problems with this apparently elegant solution.

But a lot of their approaches, though elegant, take a long time.

Crassula elegans, the Elegant Crassula, is a flowering plant species in the genus Crassula .

I've got just a couple examples. Physically, a really cool, elegant, thinking coming along lately.

There are several competing theories, most of them quite elegant, but none of them entirely satisfactory.

So now economists will have to accept the importance of irrational and often unpredictable behavior, face up to the often idiosyncratic imperfections of markets and accept that an elegant economic theory of everything is a long way off.

At home, in the context of marital intimacy, Victoria s Secret, elegant fashion, and skin care lotions abounded.

Given the scale of Ukraine s current problems and dysfunction, an elegant solution may neither be available nor sufficient.

Sarcasm towards the victims (thousands of them) and not on the perpetrators, among other things, isn't very elegant

It's an elegant approach to dramatize a story that was so often filtered through the prism of social media.

It's a very tough and elegant piece of work, from the factory of E. PAILLARD Cie S.A. YVERDON (SUISSE).

So that engineers use this time to come up with a cool patch for code, come up with an elegant hack.

Darwinian natural selection is so stunningly elegant because it solves the problem of explaining complexity in terms of nothing but simplicity.

While natural photosynthesis provides a complex, elegant blueprint for the production of chemical fuels from sunlight, it has significant performance limitations.

If newspaper publishers continue merely to rearrange the deck chairs, their elegant, elitist and currently sinking ship will deserve its fate.

Global civil society has developed instruments to halt consumption that produces harm. Elegant ladies, for example, no longer buy fur coats.

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires timeless poetry and cherished music elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

It is disturbing to witness the deterioration of a once elegant, intellectually lively, and highly independent companion of more than four decades.

In his book Islam and the Destiny of Man, Gai Eaton put the matter with elegant precision Islamic society is theocentric not theocratic.

Somewhere in our history during colonialism Egyptians began to believe that European culture was superior to their own, more elegant and prestigious, he writes.

British production of the DH.84 ended when it was replaced on the assembly line by the more powerful and elegant de Havilland Dragon Rapide.

Indeed, Saif al Islam, an elegant, soft spoken graduate of the London School of Economics, has now become a prime suspect in massive crimes against humanity.

No imposed constitution, however elegant it may be, will be very helpful to Coalition forces when confronted with the type of mayhem seen in towns like Fallujah or Najjaf.

In size and texture, they range from 4 cm, soft and fluffy in the most elegant restaurants, to over 15 cm, firm and dense for the working man's lunch.

After watching the video from beginning to end, what stands out to me is that the essence of Argentinian beauty consists in being sophisticated, cosmopolitan, cultured and elegant. However, the video is also about the way in which Argentinian women have used their beauty to look towards the future as well as to remember the past.

But here, I only want to make the point that the elegance of Darwinism is corrosive to religion precisely because it is so elegant, so parsimonious, so powerful, so economically powerful.

So, just to wrap up, I wanted to say that it feels to me that design is about solving problems and providing elegant solutions, and information design is about solving information problems.

The best available answer is that they were literally the earliest known works of art, practical tools transformed into captivating aesthetic objects, contemplated both for their elegant shape and their virtuoso craftsmanship.

Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created . Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now including the 100 laptop.

Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.

Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones?

I call her Martha Stewart meets Che Guevara, because, when not renovating the elegant public spaces of her hotel, she is suing Israeli generals for war crimes that she claims were committed against civilians in Gaza.

And that is that despite all the resources at my disposal, and despite all our kind of apparent sophistication, I know I could never have designed something as elegant and as totally in tune with the local conditions as this. OK?

There's all these elegant work in the tissue culture dishes, that if you give this cancer drug, you can do this effect to the cell, but the doses in those dishes are nowhere near the doses that happen in the body.

Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20 astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing items made of the versatile stuff.

And, surely, academics are also to blame for the inertia, with many of them still defending elegant but deeply flawed models of perfect markets that create an illusion of safety for a system that is in fact highly risk prone.

But by now it is clear that this is a worthless piece of paper. No imposed constitution, however elegant it may be, will be very helpful to Coalition forces when confronted with the type of mayhem seen in towns like Fallujah or Najjaf.

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