Sentence examples for delicate limbs from inspiring English sources

As Gregor Samsa, the man- turned-insect of The Metamorphosis, his flexed elbows and splayed toes suggest an insect's delicate limbs, while the hunch of his back shows the pain of his transformation.

Though in her mid-20s, she is a "doll-like" woman, with "delicate limbs, small hands and hardly any hips," looking as if she "had just emerged from a weeklong orgy with a gang of hard rockers".

SALT LAKE CITY It is a tiny, fragile thing: a squashed skull barely a centimeter in length; a sinuous curving body about two fingers long; four delicate limbs with grasping hands.

The feminine figures are transformed by swapping their delicate limbs for meaty, fawn-like legs and their traditional jewelry for fetishized chains.

In the sculptures here, glass from broken bottles forms crutches, translucent garlands of leaves, and delicate, spindly limbs.

Four frangipani trees, with delicate gray limbs with leaves and discreet sprays of flowers just now at their height, are an open screen on the jungle.

Traditional methods of attaching tracking tags, by looping them around a leg, wouldn't work on the swift's delicate, stubby limbs.

All smooth, furry lithe limbs, delicate face and golden eyes.

And Dowager is the most tender, sung by drummer Sam Wilson in a luminous falsetto as delicate as his limbs are forceful and demanding elsewhere.

Beatriz Stix-Brunell and Nehemiah Kish float through a sleek duet, unfolding limbs in delicate lines.

Watson is the first to admit that his red hair, delicate skin and fine limbs perhaps do not qualify him as a regular ballet pin-up.