Sentence examples for a sleekness from inspiring English sources

Traditional comedies have a sleekness that calls to mind the typewriter.

But he, like his company, has a sleekness that robs the dance of some of its intensity.

Her compositions possessed a sleekness that betrayed no brushwork, and their content was characterized by stiff architectural objects and suggestions of figures against bleak landscapes or wastelands.

A huge, plain gable overhangs a loggia, below which the land falls away, and the house appears to sit on a long, flat podium, with a sleekness that is prescient of the architect's later work.

Their blocks, the chunky and unrepentent Space House in Holborn, and Alpha Tower – the former offices of ATV in Birmingham, which shares a sleekness and a sharpness with Concorde's design – have also both just received the listing nod.

As set designer and stage director, Bill English has mounted Bell, Book and Candle with a sleekness and gentle tenderness that makes the play seem simultaneously modern yet quaint.

First, Coulthard is a sportsman, albeit in a discipline that requires a certain sleekness Perhaps even more surprising is Coulthard's maleness bulimia has until recently been considered a largely female disease" (TG-22/08/2007).

A minimalist egg-shaped tub from Boffi has a sculptural sleekness, while Michael S. Smith's stand-alone bath for Kallista captures a pared-down 1920s glam.

And the Axiom certainly looks like the SUV of the future, with a wagonlike sleekness from the side that's a sort of optical illusion, since although the Axiom is about the height of most SUVs, it gets shorter windows and taller sheet metal, giving it car proportions.

The 2,760 tufts — made of two sheets of ETFE, each 0.2 millimetres thick, which are sewn together and filled with air — are arranged in a strict diamond pattern, giving the façade a subtle sleekness.

More than strong support in Act II came from the Queen of the Wilis, the young Maria Alexandrova, a statuesque dancer in the grand, expressive Bolshoi style, with a contemporary sleekness.