Eva, who claims to have been on the last boat out of Nazi Germany, is a tough piece of work, and Ruehl nails both her sinew and her sadism.
Taglioni beefed up her calves and sinewed her back so she could not merely pose on demi-pointe, but flit that way, could leap as high as a man, yet seem modestly feminine.
A single woman in her forties who wears high-collared shirts to conceal the thready sinews of her neck will structurally despise the twenty-three-year-old girlfriend of a powerful male who not only employs said middle-aged female but is paying her way on this trip.
Modern technology keeps her too-thin face from caving in, but can do nothing about the veins and sinews on her over-exercised arms and legs.
She is expert at playing her nervy persona against the sinew of her prose.
As an assistant professor of history and African-American studies at Yale, she couldn't teach her students effectively about the "sinews and tendons" of the history of race in America without coming to terms with her personal history of integration, she says.
Refinement of technique is her argument for clemency, and she bends every sinew to her task.
Douglas, a year younger than Wieber and all grace and sinew to her explosive power, has been threatening her supremacy for a year or more.
The focus was on the creative figure who hammered every dance out of the sinews of his or her own body.
Located in the historic outer gardens of the Meiji Shrine, on the site of the existing 50,000-capacity 1964 Olympic national stadium, Hadid's 80,000-seat venue is planned to writhe across the park in her trademark style of intertwining white sinews, with broad arches rising up to 70m high.
