Sentence examples for stood on point from inspiring English sources

One woman was hauled backward by her thigh as she stood on point in arabesque.

Much of the memorial is still fenced off behind blue tarp, but it was briefly unveiled for a dedication ceremony on December 1st, World AIDS Day, revealing an ethereal, kite-like canopy of silvery slatted-steel triangles anchored to the ground by triangular legs stood on point.

"She was the first purely virtuoso ballerina to add new dimensions to the idea of virtuosity," the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, her pupil, said in the 1970s, on the occasion of Ms. Semyonova's receiving the honorary title of People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. "She was the first who stood on point in arabesque with her back fully arched, dazzled with her regal port de bras, showed the new pirouettes".

Their joint dilemma going into the 12th was to stick or twist, to trust the judgment of their own corners as to where they stood on points, or risk a big, conclusive finish.

In "Adagio," combining acrobatics and ballet, Zhu Zhengzhen of the Nanjing Duo stands on point and pirouettes on the back, shoulders and head of her partner, An Nan.

There may be principles you want to stand on, points you wish to ram home and views that you think are irrevocably right.

The letter I stands on one point, so you'd tap the single dot.

A photographer noted that three garbage cans from the media center that he had placed beside the track to stand on for a better vantage point were in the same spot a year later.

"My inspiration was: What might anybody who stood on that point have seen over eons?" she said.

"We did discuss whether we should get rid of it, but then I thought Olivier must have stood on that point," Church said.

For 165 years, the Campbell House stood on Verplanck Point, and was a welcome resting place for sailors traveling the Hudson River between New York City and Albany.