elegant

The book’s finest pieces wrangle, in elegant prose, with humanity’s contradictions; the weaker ones indulge in name-dropping, footnotes and op-ed invective.

Elsewhere on the first level, there is a sophisticated office space and an elegant dining room, which boasts black wallpaper adorned with trees and birds.

Suddenly, like a strange wind, a U-Haul truck quietly pulls in front of an elegant home.

"She was towed out of harbour looking really elegant and stunning for a 147-year-old ship, unaided, not needing any pumps," he said.

The scenes follow her attempts to shake off her dependency on Xavier, gliding in an elegant but wispy and uncentered way between memories, philosophical maunderings and embellishments of imagined interactions.