In these graceful essays, the neurologist explores how his patients compensate for the abilities they have lost, and confronts his own ocular cancer.

This may seem like more than most readers would want to know about hammers and nails, but Mr. Taylor's graceful essays force you to attend to details you might normally not bother with.

Paul Goldberger's graceful essay "Not an Urbanist, Only a Genius" (Feb. 13) is a fitting tribute to a designer whose work and thoughts continue to dominate the architectural scene.

Brief, always graceful essays exploring friendship as practiced by Henry James, Henry Adams and others we'd like to have known.

He is remembered as the author of various graceful essays.

Eiseley's opinion continues to be influential among certain environmentalists, and these graceful essays show why that should be so.

Mr Hitchens did not produce many full-length books, but he did turn out scores of graceful and erudite essays.

Colonel Mallery was at one time president of the Literary Society of Washington, and his graceful essays read at its meetings proved his wide acquaintance with the literature of his own and other countries.

As the writer Bill Berkson notes in a graceful essay for the show, these drawings fall on either side of the drip paintings of the late 1940's.

Johnson also calls the piece "one of [Chopin's] most graceful essays in fioritura ornamental practices".