Word: sinuousness
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...form to create a rigid geometry to his compositions, yet renders those visual lines slightly warped. This combination generates intriguingly ambiguous canvases, with an air of pregnant expectation and strain: the very arms of the subject in Interior with Woman Standing at a Table (1899) reach and clutch with sinuous tension...
...cold wind blowing over unmarked graves. Yulunga (Spirit Dance) begins with ominous droning and then, adding drums, shakers and Gerrard's serpentine singing, builds until its swirling patterns evoke the hypnotic gyrations of a belly dancer. The North African mood of The Spider's Stratagem is embellished by sinuous webs of violins, drifting voices and pattering percussion...
...Orange Juice guitarist whose (real) name may or may not have inspired the Wedding Present and the Bodines to write songs called, respectively, "Shatner" and "William Shatner." (And no, those Bodines aren't the mediocre BoDeans WFNX plays--but that's another story.) Another Smiths similarity: Edwyn's sinuous vocals, which mixed a shy whiteboy coyness with the tricks and glides he'd learned from American Motown records, were hardly the most "masculine" singing to be heard north of Hadrian's Wall...
Margaret Gibson's version of Hesione Hushabye, Shotover's daughter, would be perfectly charming if the viewer only had to bear her company for 15 minutes or so. She makes a delightful first impression, with her endless charm and sinuous steps. Unfortunately, Gibson's method of delivering Hesione's absurd pieces of babytalk--such as "prettikins" and "daddyest"--is horribly artificial, and her languorous speech and movements seem too derivative of Morticia Addams...
Shaw contributes one revelatory solo after another. His tone is crystalline, his lines distinctively long and sinuous, full of witty, sometimes startling interjections and exuberant flurries into his laserlike top register, but always settling back into a sleekly lyrical groove. He probes the recesses of ballads like Yesterdays and Imagination with a risky intimacy. On middle-tempo numbers like Rough Ridin' and his own composition Mysterioso, he twists and flashes through the beat with a finger-snapping insouciance...