Mayan pyramids and large temples were built elegantly using stone tools.

One way to change our genes is to make new ones, as Craig Venter has so elegantly shown.

Just as Facebook has educated people, clumsily, about privacy controls, so marketers must educate people, ideally more elegantly, about tracking controls.

Indeed, the last war that Israel won elegantly in the way that Netanyahu imagines that wars should be won began from the supposedly indefensible 1967 lines.

Nabokov's family fled Russia. How could the young Nabokov, sitting innocently and elegantly in a red chair, leafing through a book and butterflies, imagine such displacement, such loss?

But, by providing an honest, rigorous assessment of the major reform proposals, the Independent Banking Commission has performed an invaluable service, and deserves recognition for a job elegantly done.

So that means anything you do, or anything you make, you produce a sequence of steps and I think Lego in the '70s nailed this, and they did it most elegantly.

But the European Central Bank, notably by ECB board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, has elegantly spelled out the case against debt reduction a case that is politically significant and deeply moral.

She walked elegantly, like a giraffe on the African savannah, holding the flag on her shoulder. I jogged behind on my tiptoes holding the flag on my extended arm, so that my head was actually under the damn flag.

In short, the paradox of choice (as elegantly described in an eponymous book by Barry Schwartz) is that too many choices confuse us and raise the possibility of regret how can we be sure that we are getting just what we want, and that something else would not be better?