Elegant in sentence

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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.

It's this elegant little land, twist and roll.

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

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.

The universe is much bigger than our prophet said, grander, more subtle, more elegant'?

But there's a cost to this elegant unification, because years of research have shown that the math of string theory doesn't quite work.

It was Leni Riefenstahl in her elegant Nazi propaganda who gave context to what the family had to endure.

It's a very elegant way of telling a story, especially if you're following somebody on a journey, and that journey basically tells something about their personality in a very concise way, and what we wanted to do based on the shot in "Goodfellas," which is one of the great shots ever, a Martin Scorsese film, of basically following Henry Hill through what it feels like to be a gangster walk going through the Copacabana and being treated in a special way.

But when it does work, our hearing is an incredible, elegant system.

To figure out the elegant recipes that would take the small subset of the periodic table, and create miracle materials like that cell, is the task of green chemistry.

And we ended up with something far more elegant than we could have imagined, even though this is essentially the same solution that a frustrated kid uses when he can't draw hands, just hiding them in the pockets.

But I passionately believe they need to be elegant; they need to be beautiful.

Whether it's saving lives in rural Africa or stretching the boundaries of long-span technology or just crossing the road next-door, I hope we continue to build elegant and beautiful stuff that save lives and build communities.

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.

So imagine if we actually really started to identify these problems and use that as the foundation for finding innovative and elegant design solutions that will solve those problems.

Don Draper only wishes he was as elegant and precise as the emerald cockroach wasp.

It looks very elegant up on a slide.

Second example, more recent, is elegant work done by Helen Hobbs, who said, "I'm going to look at individuals who have very high lipid levels, and I'm going to try to find those people with high lipid levels who don't go on to get heart disease."

So she challenged me to make her something that was a little bit more feminine, a little bit more elegant, and lightweight, and like good tailors, we thought that we would measure her digitally.

So one of these intermediate realities is, say, the most mathematically elegant reality, that leaves out the inelegant bits, the ugly asymmetries and so forth.

Now, there are some physicists who will tell you that we're actually living in the most elegant reality.

I think that Brian Greene is in the audience, and he has written a book called "The Elegant Universe."

He claims that the universe we live in mathematically is very elegant.

It's not an elegant universe.

Then there's the most elegant possible reality.

So if it has some special feature, like being really elegant or really full or really simple, like nothingness, that would require an explanation.

What if we were living in the most elegant possible reality?

Imagine the existential pressure on us to live up to that, to be elegant, not to pull down the tone of it.

We've found that sleep may actually be a kind of elegant design solution to some of the brain's most basic needs, a unique way that the brain meets the high demands and the narrow margins that set it apart from all the other organs of the body.

While our body is still and our mind is off walking in dreams somewhere, the elegant machinery of the brain is quietly hard at work cleaning and maintaining this unimaginably complex machine.

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