He envisioned a prison of barely alive beings, kept like livestock to feed this darkly elegant lord.

When they were all four in the darkly elegant room and seated, the millionaire addressed them across his mahogany desk.

The hostess, the same darkly elegant woman that had shown Edward and me to a table last time, took Ramirez's business card, showed us all to a table, and left us.

Mrs Dobson's Tea Rooms were doing a brisk trade but no darkly elegant widow graced any of the small tables.

Although "Batman" doesn't open until late June, a widely distributed trailer has already given millions of American moviegoers a taste of the film's darkly elegant style.

Set in the darkly elegant demimonde of pre-World War I Paris, the story explores the doomed passion between an aging courtesan named Léa and a beautiful but decadent young man she calls Chéri.

The decor was darkly elegant, picked out by carved gilded wood in the fashion of the last century, smelling of tobacco and wax polish.

But they were also so fluid and packed with raw energy and a darkly elegant symmetry that viewers ignorant of pantheistic rituals could still savor the intricate play of the fantastical with the real.

Whatever they might have anticipated, it was not this darkly elegant man, no older than forty-five winters, whose black eyes held both sharp interest and sardonic merriment and whose face was as clean of whiskers as on the day of his birth.