Despiau, who was director of Rodin's shop from 1907 to 1914, also responded to the interest in Classicism; his best work, "Girl from the Landes" (1904), was a balance of individual traits in the Rodin tradition, combined with graceful poses and well-rounded forms.
Copeland nails the graceful poses while dressed in high fashion designs by Valentino, Alexander McQueen, Carolina Herrera, and Oscar de la Renta that look like they were literally plucked from each painting and sculpture.
Fifteen historic buildings stand in graceful restorative pose, including the Edisons' home and guest house, a botanic research laboratory, an artesian-fed swimming pool dating to 1911, and Ford's winter home.
The wine is so light and graceful; it poses no tannin-alcohol-oak problems for the dwindling broth.
The sculptors Bartolommeo Ammannati, Benvenuto Cellini, and, most importantly, Giambologna became the principal practitioners of Mannerism with their graceful and complexly posed statues.
Cross' delicate emotional embrace puts him squarely back where so many millions love him: plaintively expressing simple thoughts of love and posing graceful metaphors mixed with honest questions about life.
The melancholic role of Prince Siegfried suits Mr. Hallberg, who reveals his character's loneliness in a solo that moves his graceful form from one balanced pose to the next, as if in an attempt to find stable emotional ground.
The dimpled bride's pose, tense and graceful both, has something dancerlike about it, the feet pointed outward on the hot bricks; she might be about to pick up the organdie skirts of her bridal gown and vault herself into a tour jeté.
Although Romney is not as physically graceful as Obama, this may pose a problem only in the town hall, where the debaters must work the stage as they take audience questions; we saw at the Republican National Convention that when it comes to fluidity of movement, the former governor is no Fred Astaire.
