The most immediately striking quality of his reading was its dynamic play, which occasionally bordered on fussy manipulation but more typically pointed up the exquisite shape and emotional heft of Mendelssohn's tuneful score.
This is no dewy-eyed reading of Juliet: as each exquisite shape unfurls, Copeland conveys a growing understanding of what society expects of her, leading up to her masterful phrasing in the mandolin dance.
Price eschewed Voulkos's virile expansiveness to work small, making exquisite egg shapes that sprout erotic, worrisome tendrils.
The blossoms, like those on flowering onions, opened a buttery yellow, aged to a creamy white and faded to an exquisite, ball-shape seed head.
The details are exquisite: bedposts shaped like devilish masks, the apt juxtaposition of a penguin with a tuxedoed mayor, a woman in a zebra fur coat with dainty mouse ears perched on its hood.
They writhe around, forming exquisite and irregular shapes with their lithe bodies, dancing as brightly as Puck in a sparse forest filled with mirrors.
Kitson won the Perrier Comedy Award in 2002, at the age of twenty-five, and his gift is for the crafting of exquisite narratives, shows shaped like Alice Munro stories, bathetic and beautiful.
These are the 30 best cities in the world for travellers: Budapest celebrated for having the best Art Nouveau architecture in Europe and Vienna was recognised as "artistic, exquisite and largely shaped by its musical and intellectual foundations".
The white building designed by his friend Josep Lluís Sert, who had designed the Spanish pavilion in the Paris Exposition of 1937, is both low key and exquisite in its shape.
