She was doing it with her usual spare, economical elegance, but also with the air of one who would rather be doing something else.

Barry England's prose has the tough, spare elegance of steel scaffolding.

I followed her into the living room, furnished in the kind of spare elegance you see in the magazines that dentists keep on their waiting room tables.

In a room that contains an open kitchen and just 31 seats, there is a spare elegance, and the food is astonishingly exuberant.

She thought the awkward bow unlike him, inconsistent with the spare and subtle elegance of the gifts he'd made to her and to Lady Tess.

The intimate bar, billiard room and restaurant have the air of a private club and the 59 softly illuminated high-ceilinged rooms are done with spare elegance.

Mr. Vongerichten has chosen a new tower of spare elegance in which to settle down - in more ways than one.

The sets by Michael Yeargan boast a spare geometric elegance and feature just the right ratio of abstraction to realistic detail.

His own homes, Frey 1 and Frey 2, encapsulated the man in their spare elegance perfectly attuned to the landscape.

She settled herself in the chair, looked around at the spare elegance of Cena and added, "It's not at all like New York."