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adj. - Relating to a method of using body movements to express emotional concepts.

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  • Delsartian grace one gained new appreciation of "the charm of woven paces and of waving hands."
  • A somewhat sophisticated form of this goal is sought by several Delsartian schemes of relaxation, decomposition, and recomposition of movements.
  • Delsartian flexibility of this solo dance, which one can not find in its Keltic or African congeners, associate it in mind with the joy and light-heartedness of man's...
  • He had a new way of juggling an egg phosphate that was worth going miles to see, and as for the manner in which he sprinkled nutmeg over the surface -- well! no...
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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