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sinuousness

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sin·u·ous  (sny-s)
adj.
1. Characterized by many curves or turns; winding: a sinuous stream.
2. Characterized by supple and lithe movements: the sinuous grace of a dancer.
3. Not direct; devious.
4. Sinuate: a sinuous leaf.

[From Latin sinusus, from sinus, curve.]

sinu·ous·ly adv.
sinu·ous·ness n.
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Noun1.sinuousness - having curves; "he hated the sinuosity of mountain roads"
curve, curved shape - the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes


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Where there is love of whatever kind, there is desire of a kind as variable, and that daunting sinuousness that is the arousal of the loins runs through them all.
Through pure sinuousness of form, these seemed to reveal the final possibility of something pulsating with a vitality that lay beyond the illusion of the pictorial representation--perhaps that furthermost boundary of representation that Renkel's work exceeds, to then return, retracing its own tracks.
Indeed, Whelan's rarely-touching-the-ground sinuousness is in whispering dialogue with Allegra Kent's floating phantom in Balanchine's Ivesiana, "The Unanswered Question" section.
 
 
 
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