And President Bill Clinton, as everyone also knows, has a backbone of reptilian sinuosity when dealing with public-sector unions.
The widening or cutting off of major bends assists navigation, but wholesale straightening is undesirable because the natural sinuosity of the river, though modified, should be retained.
This European brushwork technique, however, contains a strong element of the sinuosity of Javanese tradition.
For example, the fantastic snake-dragon creatures carved in deep relief on the housedoors of the Batak may be extravagantly sinuous, with many spirals, while their figure sculpture adheres to the sterner plastic idiom, virtually without any linear sinuosity.
But even in his final years the sinuosity of his mind and the beauty of his line remained strong.
The sheer and overt virtuosity and sinuosity of the filmmaking — nine shots, done with a craning, roving, tracking 35mm camera, each running an entire thousand-foot reel of film (and each, according to Tregenza's website, was done only once, with no second take) — is all the more remarkable in relation to the "story," to the experience, activity, and ambition of its protagonist.
There is, of course, another skill that she could master with her natural sinuosity, but that is never mentioned.
Stark hasn't had a moment to take care of himself or to let his wife, Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), take care of him, and Downey, moving with a dance-like sinuosity and an acrobatic rigor to conform to the weaponized armature of his own devising, turns the very act of acting into a terrifyingly self-punishing enterprise.
King George, who has one of the world's largest collections of Ellington records, is often found bending over a revolving disc so that he can hear more clearly the characteristically dry, dull thud of the band's bass fiddle pulsing under an Ellington theme or the intricate sinuosity of a tenor saxophone as it curls in and out of the ensemble.
With a drainage area of 891 square miles (2,308 square km), it has a fall of more than 500 feet (150 metres) and a length, excluding minor sinuosities, of 75 miles (120 km).
From my dim office I would see the green hills, the gray sinuosities of stone walls, the charming villages, the sun-hatted spectators waving flags.
