In the great Italian tradition he fused words and music into elegant phrases.

In Clyde Kluckhohn's elegant phrase, culture is a 'design for living' held by members of a particular society.

All of these questions no doubt have answers that Professor Galbraith could supply in a few of his corrosively elegant phrases.

The prudent man with an elegant phrase extricates himself from any complication, and can use his tongue with the lightness of a feather.

For if, treating it as a science, we were to ask for reasons and proofs, we would be put off with elegant phrases (bons mots).

Jazz cadences are tacked onto classically elegant phrases.

But then, in the elegant phrase of the journalist Brian Brown, liberals these days have forgotten how to be liberal.

This is the point at which you confront yourself, grow up, fish or cut bait, or some less elegant phrase.

He was known to sadistically mouth elegant phrases of apology in the moments before he killed or maimed his victims.

He was a prudent man, and a Latin scholar, and spoke in elegant phrases; his conversation and writings showed his excellent education.