Sentence examples for dancing lightly from inspiring English sources

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Madonna is dancing lightly and slowly, but who cares?

After a decade here, Ms. Botwinikova speaks German easily, the Russian accent dancing lightly on sentences of hermetic Teutonic perfection.

The bronze match was a study in styles: Kruse upright and elegant, dancing lightly on the balls of his feet against the low-crouched but menacing Russian.

He did that speech five times in five completely different ways, his rich chocolate-truffle voice sinking and rising to different keys and rhythms, always tinged with his haunting minor-tones, like a soul in torment, his body dancing lightly like Muhammad Ali's.

Yet despite all this, and the florid stretches of prose (the storm raging outside the house is described as snowflakes "dancing lightly, like drunken images in the incandescent brains of the prisoners"), one reads on, to discover what is going to happen to these assorted people, despite Wiesel's endless manipulation of them and of events.

The smell of spices -- cumin, turmeric, saffron, coriander, mint -- dancing lightly across the air.

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The music unfolds like a ritual procession, discontinuous yet mesmerizing, with lightly dancing arias abutting quasi-minimalist repetitions.

Western commercial angels are soothing creatures: in a world of stress their wings are as soft as fresh towels or bubble bath, their expressions gentle, their activity nothing more strenuous than praying, singing, or lightly dancing.

Then colorful flourishes seem to quickly radiate from it — serene horns, offstage trumpets, lightly dancing woodwinds — like branches reaching outward from a tree's trunk.

When the station broadcast the video, it incited an uproar, and not only because of the dancing and lightly clad soldiers.

Stretch lightly before dancing.

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