The heroics are a bit unbelievable, but Ms. Shakespeare is a smooth and sometimes even elegant stylist, and this is a promising first attempt.

Always an elegant stylist, Sudhir Kakar has written a sensual work that is alive with historical detail and provocative ideas about the world's most fascinating subject.

A subtle and elegant stylist, Keyserling's narrative is unforgettable for its evocative ambience and "feel".

Mr. Nutt is a supremely elegant and inventive stylist.

Although neither were particularly successful, he had made himself known as one of the ablest critics and purest and most elegant stylists in Italy.

And when she gets to the corrupt core of her story, this elegant stylist shows she can also write in a fine, cold fury.

Ford would never make such a mistake; he is too elegant a stylist.

McPhee is an elegant stylist, but to say that his authorial voice is muffled and reticent would be an understatement.

Recordings crossed the ocean more easily, and at the time they afforded a firm impression of Oistrakh as an elegant stylist.

Ms. Lang is a more elegant stylist and also more of a crooner.