At the entrance to "The Olympic Games" is a gleaming marble torso, about three feet tall.
At every opportunity, Mr. Benton, a director who has always relished showing the female form, turns the camera on his actresses' gleaming torsos.
If Ms. Roberts is compelled to beam every second, Mr. Pitt doesn't have to gleam or bare his torso.
Crouching, freezing in a lunge and twisting — in "The Rodin Project," the dancers spend a lot of time perfecting the slow torso twist — Tommy Franzen, Thomasin Gulgec and Dickson Mbi display rippling muscles under gleaming lights.
"But / His torso still glows like a candelabrum / In which his gaze only turned low, / Holds and gleams".
The gleaming young man of a few years ago, with the brilliant smile and the golden torso — an easygoing sport who, temperamentally, never seemed more than fifty yards from the beach — has become one of the most inventive actors in movies.
Make that young men, all in the possession of gleaming, sculptured, hairless torsos that come from long acquaintance with personal trainers and electrolysists and are, to be honest, mostly interchangeable.
Apollo's Archaic Torso We cannot know his incredible head, where the eyes ripened like apples, yet his torso still glows like a candelabrum, from which his gaze, however dimmed, still persists and gleams.
D. Herter Norton) "And yet his torso /is still suffused with brilliance from inside, /like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, / gleams in all its power".
