She came to see me at my new place one evening, looking striking in a belted mac, with dark-red lipstick and a beret pinned on her hair at a dramatic angle.
The look of a bent leg in passé (its toe touching the other, straight leg's knee); the openness of a stretched body toward the audience in effacé; and then the even more striking sculptural angles when the equally outstretched body is oblique to the audience in croisé: these technical features become delicious in these dancers' delivery of this choreography.
They have no background music, no striking camera angles.
Fanck, as Mr. Bach points out, "gave her a foundation in filmmaking that would prove indispensable for everything that followed," including an appreciation of striking visuals, strong angles and monumental vistas.
A striking feature is an angle of 62.5° between the symmetry axis of the foldon trimer and the axis of the triple helix.
Once you've mastered the correct striking form, practice striking at a sharp angle.
Recent biographies have each approached their task from a different angle, the most striking, by Peter Ackroyd, being Dickensian itself.
And, seen from another angle, the most striking thing about our politics is how little has changed.
So musicians and directors angle to invent striking films with the potential to go viral, even as their production budgets have shrunk.
The special images emerge when the light is soft enough to create a striking highlight at a certain angle without being so bright as to overpower the image.
But I also came to observe that much of the mystique and glamour came from the marketing machines of Hollywood, where an ordinary Kansas-born kid was transformed into something more in a photograph, through makeup, wardrobe, a striking pose, or a flattering angle of light.
