How to Use élan in a Sentence

élan

noun

• The dancer performed with great élan.
• This is someone with the elan to take Ku Klux Klan robes and turn them a fashion show.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 21 July 2017
• But Gallatin cut with an elan that would have pleased Paul Ryan.
  — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2018
• But Gallatin cut with an elan that would have pleased Paul Ryan.
  — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2018
• And that kind of sucks for the United States, who have come to expect some style and elan from their spin zone.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 16 June 2023
• Feeling that shift toward greater openness helped relieve me from the weight of the Parisian elan.
  — Lindsey Tramuta, Glamour, 22 Sep. 2017
• Woods still looks great, the gold standard for striding the links with athletic elan, but the beauty is skin deep.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• Garoppolo has the talent, smarts, and elan to be an elite quarterback someday.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2020
• With the white-tablecloth elan of a high-end steakhouse, Fogo de Chão is nevertheless fine with your shorts, your hat and your baby stroller.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Nov. 2021
• Cotton-linen blends have the advantage of being slightly less see-through than full linen shirts and will crease a little less, but a linen shirt has a certain elan that can’t be beat in the heat.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2023
• In the first two acts, female dancers (choreographed with elan by Marjorie Folkman) were attired like Degas’s dancing girls.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2019
• Kent typically played the game with the joy and elan of a state highway patrolman – mustache and all – yet something remarkable happened on this night.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
• Kent typically played the game with the joy and elan of a state highway patrolman – mustache and all – yet something remarkable happened on this night.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
• No worries, though: The adventures of a badass secret operative, played with furious elan by Pearl Thusi, has not dated a day.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2022
• Few working journalists have written history with as much elan and narrative force as the British author Paul Johnson, who died this week at age 94.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
• Paired with oversized Swarovski jewels and a punky new hair cut [link to beauty story], her latest outfit lends Parisienne elan a new attitude.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2018
• Paired with oversized Swarovski jewels and a punky new hair cut [link to beauty story], her latest outfit lends Parisienne elan a new attitude.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2018
• Davis falls for the elan of Paris, an artsy city where a black man is an equal, while Cocteau sneers at the shallowness of America, with its worship of productivity over pondering.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2017
• Orbiting her is a polished ensemble of singer-actors, who handle the nearly two dozen solo and choral numbers with the requisite elan.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
• Not this time: The pianism was invested with a crisp rhythmic elan and instinctive grace not given to many pianists of Sunwoo’s age or experience.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• At Marvel, Lee brought jazzy verve with his dialogue, Kirby a promethean cosmic imagination, and Ditko an idiosyncratic visual elan.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 7 July 2018
• At Marvel, Lee brought jazzy verve with his dialogue, Kirby a promethean cosmic imagination, and Ditko an idiosyncratic visual elan.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 7 July 2018
• The one musician who captured Heggie’s dramatic gestures was cellist Andrew Shulman, who dug into his part with elan and lyricism.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 June 2017
• The performance’s ferocity was matched by its technical elan.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• Back then at the turn of the century virtually no other talented writers outside of niche metal publications were taking this music seriously, let alone writing about it with such elan.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 9 Feb. 2022
• While champagne is always appropriate for a Royal Wedding watch, cocktails provide a certain elan that's appropriately British.
  — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 18 May 2018
• While champagne is always appropriate for a Royal Wedding watch, cocktails provide a certain elan that's appropriately British.
  — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 18 May 2018
• Other pianists, young and old, may produce more keyboard accuracy and technical elan, but few convey the spirit and sensibility of pre-jazz and early jazz idioms as authentically as Helfer.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Izzy exuded effortless rogue elan, reminiscent of punk antihero Johnny Thunders and the ultimate junkie-gypsy guitarist, Keef himself.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2021
• With soulful elan, Rait, 72, and Staples, 83, delivered a stirring master class in musical excellence, emotional fervor and the art of simultaneously entertaining and uplifting an audience.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022