Sentence examples for rise on point from inspiring English sources
The meager comedy of the opening number arose mainly from the ineptitude of these put-upon flunkies, stumbling as Ms. Young used them as pillars so that she might rise on point.
In unison, each of six young women leans forward in an arabesque penché before stepping forward to rise on point and arching back.
Sixteen women of the all-female corps de ballet all rise on point at the same moment, legs parallel, feet together.
But ballet, with its built-in dichotomy of gender roles (women alone rise on point, men alone may do the partnering), has a romantic tension that can seem poignant, even tragic.
A speaker so vocally various, so facially vigorous, so versatile of eyebrow, so eccentric of movement and gesture — even rising virtually "on point" at times for emphasis.
Lynda Sing rose on point.
She is tall: 5 foot 9 before rising on point.
THE image of a woman rising on point, simultaneously authoritative and fragile, exalted and vulnerable, is central to ballet.
Ballet — which since the 1830's has been predicated on the dichotomy between male and female (he does the partnering, she rises on point) — is an art that to some extent transcends gender anyway.
Their longstanding partnership is also a matter of height — when she rises on point to kiss him, she's just a smidgen taller — but they are also temperamentally matched, especially here.
When the pianist began the first pas de deux, she stepped in front of Mr. Baryshnikov, rose on point, and slowly extended her right leg sidewise, exhaling a cloud of smoke.
