It gives an elegance that isn't really there.

She has written a single story about many people, and her gift for old-fashioned, sharp satire gives it a certain elegance.

They give a certain elegance of sentiment to which the rest of mankind are strangers.

Matte tiles in quiet colors give tiny rooms a 19th-century effect and a subtle elegance.

There seemed nothing in the least false about Genji's own tears, which gave an added elegance and fineness of feature.

She had already given her rooms at court a fashionable elegance with which the better-established ladies found it hard to com- pete.

The room was in simple good taste and incenses and other details gave it a deep, quiet elegance.

There were cathedral-like domes and clean white buildings that gave a quiet elegance to the frenzy.

All the same, Stephen gave them an elegance they'd probably not known before.

He soon specialized as a comic actor, giving his role a new elegance and complexity.