Autumn/winter 2011 proved no exception: Haider Ackermann showed slouchy Smokings belted over sinuous satin evening-dresses, the revived house of Mugler spliced them with corsetry and latex, while at Yves Saint Laurent, the house that started it all, Stefano Pilati showed Le Smoking true, albeit inverted in colour, a nod to Bianca Jagger's wedding suit as part of an all-white finale.
The only access route to the plant is over a sinuous path of catwalks built over the submerged parking lot and walkways in recent weeks.
And let us pass lightly over the sinuous, not-nearly-erotic-enough duet from Murray Louis's "Cleopatra" (1976), other than to say that Aaron Selissen retained a miraculous amount of his dignity despite having to perform in shiny purple leggings with gold lacing — thank you, Frank Garcia, for the costume design — as he cozied up behind an equally stoic Kyla Barkin.
The water was prohibitively dark, and dotted all over with sinuous lilies.
That meant "Take Over Control," his sinuous collaboration with the singer Eva Simons, and "Louder Than Words" his blissful, bubbly collaboration with the dance music-crossover elder David Guetta; a remix of "Let's Make Nasty," by Larry Tee and Roxy Cottontail; as well as versions of "Kickstarts" by Example, and "Hello, " by Martin Solveig and Dragonette.
From the citadel, I looked down on the green valley floor and the sinuous walls – over 11m high – curving around empty spaces.
For fall, Jarrar expanded into evening with characteristic cool, like this snowy satin top with encrusted shoulders and a sinuous hem over her gray flannel spin on tux pants.
Following a burst of footwork, one of his wrists continued twisting, a sinuous expression of energy left over, as in an aftershock.
The music is enchanting: the simplest of melodies -- a melting descent, followed by a sinuous rise -- over steadily treading harmonies.
Mr. Ahmed, 67, began his portion of the evening with "Atawurulegn Lela," wafting a sinuous melodic line over briskly tumbling polyrhythm.
All that history, all that beauty, all that grace under pressure, all that sinuous, subtle triumph over empires and invaders and the infidels who would diss modernism - we felt, well European and sophisticated.
