Mr. Tammet's book is an elegant account of how his condition has informed his life, a rare first-person insight into a mysterious and confounding disorder.

The book is an elegant account of the missteps and deceptions that clear the way for random killing.

The result is an elegant and expertly written account of a very peculiar man.

His sympathetic partner in this approach was James Levine, who conducted elegant, animated and beautifully detailed accounts of each work.

And in Mr. Guy's elegant account this moody work, whatever its technical demands or lack of same, seems anything but complicated.

An elegant account of a remarkable family, bold and alert to opportunity.

Ivan Moravec gave an elegant and unusually calm account of the solo line in the Schumann.

Philip Pullman called it "one of the clearest and most elegant accounts" he had seen of the topic.

Miss Gregory's elegant accounts made a strong case for moving a number of the evening's selections more squarely into the repertory.

Next he gave an Apollonian and elegant account of Beethoven's late Sonata No. 31 in A flat.