Yiddish is a supple language, and some words have near-universal application.
We have good road signs, proper breakfasts, good meat, cheese, bread, Cornish pasties, beautiful countryside, hedgerows, impressive public ceremonies, even temperament, and an extraordinarily supple language and rich literature.
Acknowledged as Rilke's finest achievement (with the possible exception of his Sonnets to Orpheus) and one of the century's poetic masterpieces, the Duino Elegies is praised for its supple language, its experimentation with metre and rhyme, and its profound meditation on human existence.
Brazil "…caught a serious case of Saturday Night Fever," Johnson and Stam wrote, "to the extent that the supple Brazilian language sprouted neologistic verbs and nouns from the root 'Travolta' — travoltar (to travolt), travoltice (travoltage)," to describe things influenced by the film's disco-era flair.
Supple with languages, he could flip among Russian, English, Portuguese, and Esperanto; today, he says, he can "read fifteen or sixteen languages, go to the market with nine or ten, and fluently speak five or six".
This is a poet with a prosecutorial mind: in supple and exact language, she interrogates the world around us.
Mr. Flanagan, who has fused bebop and Ellington into his own supple, refined piano language, is one of jazz's absolute treasures, and his trio is a model of interlocking subtleties.
A drama of colonisation based on the mapping of Ireland's landscape in the 1830s becomes a supple meditation on language and identity rather than a lament for a lost idyll.
Mr. Sands, a terrific young actor seen on Broadway in "Journey's End," has a supple feel for Shakespearean language.
Instead, at the National, with the help of the designers Crowley, Bunny Christie and Vicki Mortimer, he continued to develop a unique language, a supple kind of deep-breathing spacious naturalism, particularly in the Lyttelton, which was his and his alone, and in which every single role was given its democratic focus.
The lyric, elegant and supple, also reached its finest expression in the Persian language.
