They pitted their work against the reigning elegancies of abstraction, minimalism, and conceptual art.
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It was a revelation to Rose of the elegancies of a dainty, finicky girl's toilet.
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With many it is a curious fancy, to dress Easter-eggs in elegant forms and keep as toilet elegancies.
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Gathering up her elegancies, she retired defeated, and, as if her departure had loosed a spring, the front door opened at once.
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Perhaps it was not fair to expect him to feel how very much he was her inferior in talent, and all the elegancies of mind.
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She was a great trial to her aunt Felicia, who was a widow and well-to-do, and liked the elegancies and normalities of life.
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When we were packing up the things to come here, our friends expressed their astonishment at our taking so many of the little elegancies of life.
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Appointed Public Orator, or showman, of his university, Cambridge, he spent some years in enjoying the somewhat trifling elegancies of life and in truckling to the great.
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As, in an increasingly visual and non-oral culture, linguistic elegancies fade, their revival and preservation seem worth the effort, even at the cost of a certain campy, parodic note.
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Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts 14th Rep. i. 368, 378 Its "unqualified and audacious attacks on all private characters" were at the start "smiled at for their quaintness, then tolerated for their absurdity", and ultimately repudiated with disgust.William Gifford, The Baviad and The Mæviad (satires), p. xi In it appeared accounts of "elopements, divorces, and suicides, tricked out in all the elegancies of Mr. Topham's phraseology".
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Povey proposed Samuel Pepys for membership, 8 February 1665.Norman J.W. Thrower, "Samuel Pepys FRS (1633–1703) and the Royal Society" Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 57.1 (January 2003:3–13) p. 6. John Evelyn, a fellow member of the Royal Society, found Povey "a nice contriver of all elegancies and exceedingly formal". As a Fellow, Povey offered the Royal Society a dissertation in 1693 on the manufacture of brass.
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There were several quotations from Shakespeare and a reference to the word Honorificabilitudinitatibus, which appears in both Love's Labour's Lost and Nashe's Lenten Stuff. The Earl of Northumberland sent the bundle to James Spedding, who subsequently penned a thesis on the subject, with which was published a facsimile of the aforementioned cover. Spedding hazarded a 1592 date, making it possibly the earliest extant mention of Shakespeare. After a diligent deciphering of the Elizabethan handwriting in Francis Bacon's notebook, known as the Promus of Formularies and Elegancies, Constance Mary Fearon Pott (1833–1915) argued that many of the ideas and figures of speech in Bacon's book could also be found in the Shakespeare plays. Pott founded the Francis Bacon Society in 1885 and published her Bacon-centered theory in 1891.Pott, Constance: Francis Bacon and His Secret Society (London, Sampson, Low and Marston: 1891); Sirbacon.
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" Fr. Pedro Chirino, Relacion de Islas Filipinas (1604) "422. The natives of these islands employ innumerable other elegancies and courtesies, now in actions, now in words, now in names and titles, which they apply to themselves; these are various according to the difference of the provinces, and are too numerous to mention, for they are ceremonial, and they value their ceremonies highly. No one will pass in front of another, without asking permission, and in order to pass, he doubles the whole body with the most profound bow, at the same time lifting one foot in the air, and doubling the knee and lifting both hands to the face. If one has to talk to any person of higher rank, he shows all reverence and squats down [pone en cuclillas], with raised face, and waits thus, until he is asked his reason for coming; for to speak without being questioned would be a point of bad breeding.
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