In reading the on line docs, one mystery has been solved - where the word elegant came from...

From the help docs describing C#:

C# is a simple, elegant, type-safe, object-oriented language recently developed by Microsoft for building a wide range of applications.

In sum, this is MS's description of the language, not yours. I knew this description did not come out of thin air. It smacked of MS marketing - and for sure, I was right...