He's so flexible he can make really beautiful lines with those grand battement kicks in first and second position (to the front, then to the side). From Wordnik.com. [Tonya Plank: Nigel Softens Up: So You Think You Can Dance Week 3 Cuts] Reference
I attended the exhibition numerous times and often saw the social dancers gazing up at the giant screens, briefly trying to emulate a move - a leg-extending developpé, a high-kicking battement, a pointed toe and delicate fan of the arms - then return to their rhythmic Latin dancing. From Wordnik.com. [Tonya Plank: What's With This Prime-Time Dance Craze?] Reference
Brooke is a lovely dancer with nice lines, which she aptly demonstrated in battement kicks, excellent supported jumps in splits and attitude position (where the back leg is bent), as well as a few hard lifts where Eric gave her good height and she supported much of her own body weight. From Wordnik.com. [Tonya Plank: Lifetime Premieres New Dance Show Meant To Bring Families Together, But Could It's Good Intentions Backfire?] Reference
Aussi j'ai entendu un battement d'ailes dans l'air, un battement d'ailes gigantesques. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde] Reference
Secondly, though there is an audible vertigo, as is known by the battement, or undulations of sound in the ears, which many vertiginous people experience; and though there is also a tangible vertigo, as when. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
It's not hard, if you wish, to manipulate the classical vocabulary to show feelings: the despairing pirouette, the elated arabesque, the indecisive bourrée, the enraged battement, the developpé flung as a challenge. From Wordnik.com. [Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories] Reference
But, as the sound of bells is the most familiar of those sounds, which have a considerable battement, the vertiginous patients, who attend to the irritative circles of sounds above described, generally compare it to the noise of bells. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
That is, at those intervals they attend to the apparent motions, and to the battement of sounds of the bodies around them, and for a moment mistake them for those real motions of the ship, and noise of wheels, which they had lately been accustomed to: or at these intervals of reverie, or on the approach of sleep, these supposed motions or sounds may be produced entirely by imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Pour ceux qui n'ont jamais eu de migraine ophtalmique ca s'resume a: Un mal de tete atroce mais un truc carabiné avec des pointes de douleurs qui pulsent en synchronisation avec le poulx (sachant que je fais de la tachycardie a cause des modio j'vous raconte pas la douleur a 160 battement/minutes c super agreable), Douleur incessante (oui ca s'calme pas pour revenir, non, c constant comme douleur) qui te pousse generalement a degueuler toutes les 5 minutes, a pas pouvoir te lever mais de toute facon qu'est ce que j'aurais fait?. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
'bar' of the music is called either a 'battement' of the drum, or a. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries] Reference
Ne suis plus qu’un battement de cœur qui meurt natarsim natarsim ma hame ba ham hastim. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
And the battement just not in time!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
Lair des cités létouffe à chaque battement. From Wordnik.com. [La Maison du Berger] Reference
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