Sentence examples for moves lightly from inspiring English sources

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Kaurismäki's movie moves lightly but elegantly and quickly, like a little jockey on a powerful horse.

He moves lightly and is a more than decent blues singer.

His nimble-footed storytelling moves lightly over great distances of time and space to produce something like a Victorian novel in miniature.

At other times each dancer moves lightly, with rippling undulations through the torso, little twists of shoulders and hips, shivery, squirmy spurts of motion.

It says something that one track, on which Fraser's voice moves lightly over samples of woodwind and choral voices, receives as vociferous a response as any of the old stuff.

Such themes would have tempted a lesser poet into indulgent, ponderous writing, but "Soldiers Bathing" moves lightly on sinuous lines, its rhyming couplets kept supple by the varying line length and the ingenious syntax.

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The small ones move lightly.

Ms. Nichols moved lightly at all times.

We can move at any time, and move lightly.

He moved lightly and valued light-footedness, as he valued sotto voce.

She moved lightly on her damaged feet, like a sleepwalker gliding along the shabby hospital carpet.

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