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Why not paint the world as it was?His moment of revelation came one day in 1965, in front of Caravaggio's "Raising of Lazarus" in the Louvre, when he found himself astounded by the drama of sinewy bodies and lit, cascading shrouds.
As I looked at the gaunt and sinewy frame of the stranger, and marked his powerful head and determined features now touched into softness by the impressions of the moment, I felt an irrepressible curiosity to learn something more about him, and when he was quietly leaving the room, I begged to know his name.
As the choric figure Paulina, Zenaida Yanowsky prowls around and cajoles them with sinewy authority.
But he has suffered from having to start from scratch, whereas Mr Tsvangirai, in nearly a decade of struggle, has woven a sinewy web of intrepid supporters, which now seems to stretch into the rural areas, Mr Mugabe's well-controlled heartlands.
THEY are now starting to come back to the streets of the capital: the beggars, the prostitutes, the old women with long sticks and sacks for collecting rubbish, and the sinewy drivers of the three-wheeled carts that take the rubbish to Beijing's depots for sorting.
In his first outing as a national political figure, Mr Ryan looked like his old self: a sinewy , genial figure who charmed the crowds in a checked shirt, jeans and cowboy boots.
"His turned down shirt-collar disclosed a sinewy muscular yellow neck, and above that, nestling in a great black mass of hair, bristling and compact like a ruff of mourning pins, rose the strange quaint face and head, covered with its thatch of wild republican hair, of President Lincoln".
The movements Nijinsky devised for the three dancers, based on jagged, sinewy gestures drawn from the game of tennis, outraged critics at the time, who complained of their ugliness.
One account of him, written in the late 1860s, described Hickok as "six feet tall, lithe, active, sinewy , [a] daring rider, [a] dead shot with pistol and rifle, [with] long locks, fine features and mustache, buckskin leggings, red shirt, broad-brim hat, twin pistols in belt, rifle in hand".
The smooth trunk has a sinewy or muscular appearance and divides into slender, slightly pendulous branches.
Sen. John F. Miller of California, a proponent of the Chinese Exclusion Act, argued that the Chinese workers were "machine-like…of obtuse nerve, but little affected by heat or cold, wiry, sinewy , with muscles of iron".
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The adjective "sinewy " primarily functions to describe the physical appearance of a person, animal, or even object, emphasizing a lean, muscular, and strong physique or structure. Ludwig confirms that it is a correct and usable word in written English.
Expression frequency: Very common
