Word: sinuously
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...little slips of paper announcing texts for Chem 10 or Soc Sci 120 or Phil 8 is, in a way, an arena of the imagination, a ball field of the mind on which are played out personal fantasies of your future self. The aisles separating the shelves are sinuous paths in a confusing maze of options, of alternatives leading to different life styles that become apparent when you are faced with the decision of choosing four courses from among the thousands offered...
...catch their breath for reflection on the extremities of motion and emotion to which they are constantly pushed. And Tetley is too new to the company to take fullest advantage of the dancers' contrasting personalities-for example, Haydée's Latin passion with Cuoco's sinuous California cool...
...meet a genuine threat, maintained a satisfactory consultation with Congress. It is the cold war, rather, that Schlesinger clearly regards as the breeding ground of what he calls the Imperial Presidency: that is, an Executive power that fed upon international commitments and a continuous real or imagined danger from sinuous enemies, who could be combat ted only by the President with a vast military budget and a network of spies. Taking a hint from Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, Harry Truman, one of Schlesinger's villains, "scared hell out of the American people." Like the Presidents who followed...
Janos Baltar, a profoundly sinuous villain, plays the snake in Simon's Garden of Eden: the spirit of holocaust inside the sanctuary...
Much of that disintegration takes place as he watches his beloved Tadzio dance on the beach. The Royal Ballet's 19-year-old Robert Huguenin (who, true to the novella, never speaks) is sinuous without being sickly sensual. This restraint probably errs in the excessively angular choreography Sir Frederick Ashton has designed for the cavorting boys on the beach. Yet it is an effective use of ballet as a symbolic vehicle...