Sokol, (Czech: "Hawk," or "Falcon"), gymnastic society, originating in Prague in 1862 to develop strength, litheness, alertness, and courage.
Patrick McEnroe, the Bryans' coach on the Davis Cup team, believes that Bob could have made it into the top fifty had he continued playing singles, though he lacks the litheness and fluidity of the very top players.
This niggle of disrespect lends the film a nervous litheness; we want the monster quelled, and order restored, but what, exactly, is so peaceful about the status quo?
And if the pianist Evgeny Kissin's playing in Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 had a thoroughly Chopinesque litheness, the orchestral passages were so loud and so broadly drawn that it was hard not to hear them as having a Brahmsian girth.
The exterior combines Germanic strength with litheness and painterly detail.
The gentler parts of the score — the Introitus and the Kyrie, the Recordare, the Lacrimosa and the Libera Me, in particular — have the light textures and easygoing lyricis of Fauré's Requiem and some of the melodic litheness of Mozart's.
The conductor Christian Curnyn, conducting a somewhat altered version of the 1754 score, sets well-judged tempos but could have worked harder to attain from the E.N.O.'s modern-instrument orchestra a performance with the litheness and crispness of a period instrument band.
Mario suggests an updated Ralph Tresvant, all understatement and litheness.
Nabokov just went out there and did the business, all litheness, power and touch.' I think Nabokov had his own large coterie of trick shots — the man invented new shots constantly — and Amis's work on tennis is as imaginative, insightful and intelligent as anyone's.
And while the car is snug, Mr. Prokhorov gleefully demonstrated that even his 6-foot-8 frame could be folded into both the front and the rear seats — a demonstration that also highlighted Mr. Prokhrov's litheness as a lifelong basketball player.
Yet the litheness and grace of pop songs like debut 2013 single Skinny Dipping is more reminiscent of the effortless poise of Sweden's the Cardigans.
