The second trend involved shortening the trunk, relocating the shoulder blades, and, most important, steadily increasing the emphasis on hind-limb support and truncal erectness.
In addition, human beings display a marked erectness of body carriage that frees the hands for use as manipulative members.
She was dark-haired and dark-eyed, unrebelliously dressed, and was sitting with a Free German Youth erectness of posture, a textbook open in her lap.
A default erectness gave meaning to bending and slumping and a hunched-over box step.
I don't dislike porn in theory, but in practice, those breasts are often made to look a certain way, the nipples not exactly freed but inflated and agitated into a certain erectness for a certain reason.
And everything in Moroni's fine and subtle brushwork – from the almost-sneer of the mouth to the dapper, head-in-air erectness of the figure – is borne out by the motto inscribed on the wall beside the duke.
Even then, of course, Cunningham was frail – a tiny creature curled up in a wheelchair but still with that sense of erectness and poise that makes dancers unmistakeable.
In the erectness of their bearing, and in their readiness to drop down on their bellies, the flinging way they gesture with their armlike flippers, the shortness of the strides with which they walk or boldly scamper on their fleshy feet, they resemble human children more closely than does any other animal, not excepting the great apes.
The erectness of the guards on their ritual patrol was impressive enough, but it was the heft and discipline and murderous potential of the horses that grabbed me right in the pit of my stomach.
She doesn't try for the radiant spirituality of Falconetti's great interpretation in Carl Dreyer's 1928 "Passion of Joan of Arc" but plays Joan as a stubborn, willful girl who simply knows that the voices she hears are real; she lets the mystery of Joan's faith express itself in her impatience, and in the ramrod erectness of her posture.
For much of the performance this singer and songwriter stood with an almost military erectness, his feet aligned and his chest puffed.
