Over five decades of exuberant shape-shifting across the fictional landscape, Anne Tyler has cut the steady swath of a literary stalwart, writing novel after novel whose most memorable characters inhabit a cosmos all their own, a contemporary meta-Baltimore populated by ordinary if idiosyncratic citizens, middle-class homebodies cocooned yet smothered by their families.
Set to Sibelius, the dance was a mishmash of exuberant shapes: backward leans with an extended leg and a flexed foot, swimming on the floor, and cartwheels.
Ponti's early experience at Richard Ginori fostered his love of rich colors, exuberant shapes and fine craftsmanship, all of which were deeply unfashionable for most of his career, but remained important to him, even though his work became less flamboyant over the years.
The more exuberant arabesque shapes of Renaissance decoration, however, gave way to increasingly architectural design, and oak was almost entirely superseded by walnut.
Bold shapes and exuberant dynamics read better on big stages than more introvert choreography.
The exuberant colours and futuristic shapes were met with a mixture of shock, awe and total bewilderment.
By the 1970s, the exuberant Alimar was in sorry shape, the limestone decorations cut back, the mansard roof gone.
Carvers and gilders made sconces part of their stock-in-trade; and, as more care was lavished on interior design, sconces were influenced by the overall style of the rooms for which they were intended, assuming exuberant Rococo, Eastern, or Classical shapes.
But until the Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx came along to tame and shape his country's exuberant flora, his countrymen had mostly disdained the natural riches that, often literally, flourished in their own backyards.
