I intend to discuss just that in sinewy masculine prose. From Wordnik.com. [A Giant Leap For Personkind ?] Reference
Again, the unabridged dictionary gives "sinewy" as its first definition of "nervous.". From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Books that length struggle to find a publisher these days, so this kind of sinewy masterpiece is a dying art-form. From Wordnik.com. [:Acquired Taste] Reference
Never had he felt so keyed-up, so sinewy of nerve. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
The sinewy outcrops of the true land life will be there. From Wordnik.com. [Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)] Reference
With all the force of his sinewy arm, Joe "put it over.". From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
Around the stables, Krone is as tough as any old sinewy jockey. From Wordnik.com. [Back In The Saddle Again] Reference
Before Joe's sinewy figure he stepped back and mumbled an apology. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
Her mother comes last, a short woman with a long, sinewy salt and pepper gray braid. From Wordnik.com. [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference
The steel-like muscles and sinewy strength of the Hungarian now stood him in good stead. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
So now, his sinewy arm caught the Malay by the leg, while his body swung round to the right. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
He, too, was flushed and rather breathless, and his long, sinewy hands were trembling slightly. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
The body of the poem – its rhythms and syntax – is not a container, but a sinewy consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke] Reference
A sinewy brown hand rose from the water and seized the edge of our frail canoe, tilting it far over. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
RATH: While no new ground is being broken here, the groove is watertight, the chops fresh and sinewy. From Wordnik.com. [Seu Jorge And Almaz: Double Billing, One Album] Reference
The sinewy man hawking papers to morning commuters in Kowloon is unusually animated on this drizzly March day. From Wordnik.com. [Taiwan: The Last Tycoon?] Reference
Her dark, sinewy figures suffering the torments not of the heavens but of earth-bring to mind Goya and Daumier. From Wordnik.com. [Drawing Political Fire] Reference
Nile nomads, and the men are types of physical beauty, with fine heads, erect athletic bodies and sinewy limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Neither as sinewy nor as feral as Anne Parillaud was in the original, Fonda wisely doesn't try to overdo the savagery. From Wordnik.com. [Devil Or Charlie's Angel?] Reference
He dreams he is an athlete, tall and sinewy, with muscles so smooth and explicit they seem hewn from some exotic wood. From Wordnik.com. [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference
A first glance tells that he is an agile climber, sinewy, easy of movement, light of step, with both grace and strength. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
On his 2009 release, "Brand New Blues," he covered Bob Marley, Brook Benton and Jimmy Reed with his customary sinewy power. From Wordnik.com. [Rock, Rhythm and Blues] Reference
His wife, a severe, sinewy woman who wore beautiful, coordinated clothing and jewelry at all times, opened the door for her. From Wordnik.com. [Country House] Reference
As the limbs grow sinewy and powerful by muscular action, so the soul becomes stronger with each beneficent act that it performs. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
It was flung open and a man staggered blindly over the sill, reeling and clutching at his breast with both gnarled, sinewy hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Club kids in Ed Hardy chatted up drag queens as they strutted about in sequined hot pants next to sinewy, tank top-wearing gym rats. From Wordnik.com. [Curtis M. Wong: Scissor Sisters Offer High-Camp Theatrics, Electro-Driven Pop Grooves At Terminal 5] Reference
Now the potatoes glistened on the plate in a distasteful way and the bacon had a sinewy look that he did not want to feel in his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Red] Reference
He advanced with his murderous weapon in his outstretched hand, having previously rolled up his sleeve and bared his brown, sinewy arm. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Glistening sinewy strands gravitate downwards like thermometer mercury escaped - between breasts where the heart beats and almost lives. From Wordnik.com. [Pineapple Breakfast] Reference
Claws raked across Harris 'chest, and a long sinewy tongue slithered out of the creature's mouth, wrapping itself around his throat. From Wordnik.com. [Who's There?] Reference
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