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shapeliness

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The property of being shapely.

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The washings of light across skin and cloth have helped to give these bodies a real, toned shapeliness, a kind of theatrical panache.

Look at the shapeliness of that mountain, those globby trees.

We like this feeling of being on the cusp of revelation amidst bodies that seem to be moving towards their full identities, their full shapeliness.

And yet they do plump out his physique – admire, for example, the shapeliness of those shoulders, and how they are made so by the cut of the padded and pleated garment that he is wearing.

Much contemporary fiction, like much contemporary life, has a restless flamboyance that preëmpts such wise shapeliness.

That is certainly the spirit of "Borat," which may lack all narrative shapeliness, but which offers comfort neither to Baron Cohen's onscreen victims nor to his audience; it is as if he were outraged by the business of our being human — as if, in laying bare our follies, he were just quickening the process by which we already make fools of ourselves.

The dancers are selected and judged according to a single, inflexible notion of shapeliness and then presented as objects without temperament.

She has full lips, blond hair, and large crystalline blue eyes; she also has a physique of unusual grace and shapeliness.

An Iyer improvisation has a shapeliness that involves holding in mind possible serial forms and evoking them.

And all this while the cunning counterargument kept seeping its way back in, no help for it, every decision they'd made — the words, the few bare things assembled on the floor — informed with shapeliness, even the anger, even the grief.

These books are fiction in the sense that their resolute shapeliness is a major aspect of how we experience them.

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