Sentence examples for dainty steps from inspiring English sources

Houdyshell tries to signal that she's a kid by lisping and taking dainty steps, but she's unconvincing because she's too knowing, too sensible for any actual child to identify with.

A police captain and a coroner arrive, followed by a third man, of appearance most curious: "He was very fat indeed, yet he walked with the light dainty steps of a woman.

Apple's method of locomotion — which he accomplishes in short, almost dainty steps — has some resemblance to a man carefully steering a large stomach down a narrow path that is being cleared at that very moment by native bearers; it is easily mistaken for a swagger.

In their coming-out scene, on a train platform, Mr. Lemmon stumbles and flails in his skirt and heels, while Mr. Curtis, his mouth drawn into a comely pout, takes small, dainty steps, keeping his feet close together to increase the lateral sway of his derrière — which the camera can't resist checking out.

GALMPTON, England — The final push to the top of his personal Everest consisted of about 50 dainty steps, in the precise and idiosyncratic gait he has perfected over 25 years.

Don't try to fight this by taking bigger steps - stick with small, dainty steps which will make your walk look more natural and help you to feel more comfortable.

Luxury all-inclusive line Crystal Cruises has gone one dainty step further.

To get his package through, he needed the votes of the anti-immigration Danish People's Party, which holds the balance of power in parliament and says the new measures are just a first dainty step.

In the novel, Chan is described as walking with "the light dainty step of a woman" and as being "very fat indeed... an undistinguished figure in his Western clothes".

It is a literary and emotional feat (elegantly illustrated in red, white, black and gold – a dainty fox steps out in the snow on its cover).

With dainty little steps and glides, to the right and to the left, forward and backward, in quarter turns, approaching and retreating hand in hand, searching and evading, now side by side, now facing, now gliding past one another, the ancient dance play of courtship appears here in a last and almost unrecognizable stylization and refinement.