Ms. Cornejo's big, flung arabesques and pliant upper body established the character's resilience and desperation from her first entrance, with that pliancy melting into lyricism in the third-act Jardin Animé scene.
There was still a posed, severely modern look to their portrayals, but the characters seemed more pliant and human, especially Ms. Mattila's.
Her strength, speed, and precision enabled her to perform Balanchine's works with an aplomb and relish beyond the reach of most Russian-trained dancers, while her radiant persona, pinpoint control, and famously pliant spine empowered explorations of new dramatic possibilities in such classic roles as the title character in Adolphe Adam's Giselle.
And Leelanee Sterrett brought mellow sound and pliant lyricism to the French horn part.
Pliant yet protective, wind and water-resistant but breathable, handsome to start but grows a character of its own, waxed canvas strikes, for me, the perfect balance of attributes.
Ghali's characters — young, precocious, cosmopolitan — are lost in the bewildering aftermath of the military coup that overthrew the pliant boy-king Farouk.
Laws were remarkably pliant.
They are altogether more pliant".
The pliant weight of flesh.
Ditto "plastic, pliable, pliant, ductile, malleable, adaptable".
Its pliant undulant shapes flow across cabinets.
