All the same, the slender, ankle-high creek does mark a fatality: the South Bronx waterfront, which has been blocked and buried by rail yards, highways, caravans of garbage trucks and warehouses.
When Gouzer inspected the gallery, he thought that the position of the sculpture needed adjustment, and he grasped the figure almost tenderly around its slender ankles.
During the opening minutes of the show, when each dancer steps forward to stare into an unseen mirror, we all stare back – fascinated by one man's gnarly beak of a nose, another's genially drink-flushed cheeks, by one woman's proudly slender ankles, another's ironic glance.
She has ivory skin, beautiful chestnut-colored hair, perky breasts, and slender ankles.
He has the body of a runway model: jutting hip bones, long, elegant legs and the slenderest ankles and wrists.
Musical-voiced, framed in dark-haired mystery, slender of ankle and wrist, they introduced afresh a long-perfected synthesis of femininity that we have lost in the West, one that combines beauty with modesty and sensuality with wisdom.
We are so desperate for signs of flesh that we're prepared to hang decades of debate off the ankles, slender or otherwise, of one woman.
His splayed fingers give him an air of resignation, and the slender rope circling his ankles anticipates the noose that will soon be placed around his bared neck.
The ladies may be fat - and long may they reign in televised repeats - but the attractions here are as slender as a supermodel's ankle.
Nearby were some very slender young women in spangly, ankle-length dresses.
