The effect is one of regal elegance.

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For a while they sat, and Suchen remembered the splash of a fish breaking the surface of the water, and two egrets taking off with unhurried elegance, one after the other.

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The album is an exquisite one, showcasing a sparse, brooding elegance similar to artists like Leonard Cohen and Damien Rice.

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The feather's unceremonious fall from a symbol of wealth and elegance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to one of vulgarity--from the hats of fashionable women to the heads of Kewpie dolls--is not only a story of the fickleness of the fashion industry.

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Now one researcher hopes to show the malware that plagues PCs in all its evil elegance.

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In particular, one thing that I noticed in reading this book is how the insistence on simplicity and elegance, whether that be as a matter of geocentrism, or circular orbits, or a steady state universe, cause even some of the most intelligent people in history to ignore the evidence.

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French technique meets Japanese elegance around a traditional garden at the upscale Tetsuya's, where there is just one coveted degustation menu.

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If you arrive at your weekly meeting channeling the elegance of Jackie O, it would be alarming if you showed up at the next one in a leather jacket and motorcycle boots.

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