They do not have complicated features (such as fur or wavy hair), and nobody expects them to make fluid, life-like movements.
But a couple of nights later, Adams came to the rescue with his fluid, life-affirming "Become River" for chamber ensemble.
Mr. Huyghe, from Paris, makes a striking New York solo debut with two recent short films that explore the fluid line between life and fiction.
When you find yourself among women, especially at balls, you literally begin to swim in the living, collective fluid of life that surrounds you".
These shows all have a fluid, organic life that honors the mutability of great art.
("Fiendish blood-drinking reptile lord of the Ankhit-Thekh," goes one, "We propitiate thee with our own fluid of life").
(Like much first-rate journalism, this show translates hard facts into fluid, mutable life, and vice versa).
In the past few years alone, New York has seen Complicité give fluid physical life to the impressionistic fiction of Bruno Schulz ("The Street of Crocodiles") and the abstractions of the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ("The Noise of Time").
Appearances are also made by young "Ben" Disraeli, Joseph Bazalgette and Henry Mayhew, whose groundbreaking work London Labour and the London Poor Pratchett acknowledges as the foundation of his novel; perhaps one could say the sewer that runs underneath it, for the dark and malodorously fluid subterranean life of Victorian London forms a major part of the book.
That flexibility in turn enables their fluid social life, says Aureli.
But after being given fluids intravenously, life flowed back into him.
