He walked around the desk, then stopped; his eyes roamed the elegant study strewn with papers, notebooks and file folders.

His design drawings are elegant studies that graphically depict each boldly geometric chair, table, mirror, fireplace or coat stand.

It's an elegant study in remoteness, isolation, loneliness and casual cruelty.

At Redtop, he worked in an elegant white-paneled study with a carved inglenook for naps.

These spare, elegant studies made between £2,600 and £4,400 each.

It can make sentient even the furniture in a room: Pavel Petrovich meanwhile had gone back to his elegant study.

But the researches of the sages are not confined to such subtle or elegant studies.

An elegant study, combining sound judgement of Trollope's characterisation with an excellent discursive style.

"My office and treatment room," he explained, ushering her into a room that looked far more like an elegant study than a doctor's office.

An elegant, incisive study of Lincoln through his relationships with his former political rivals turned cabinet members.