Adjective : a sinuous path. ,sinuous questions. ,a sinuous dance. From Dictionary.com.
Susannah slipped into the woods at the side of the road with eely sinuousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Waste Lands]
Her mermaids, with their serpentine jointing, displayed an uncanny sinuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Loerzel: Chicago, "Puppeteer" City] Reference
The new shape moved with a confidence and sinuousness that disturbed the night elf. From Wordnik.com. [WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE] Reference
She was nearly six feet tall, and her body had all the willowy sinuousness of a model. From Wordnik.com. [Deadline for Murder]
The dancers morph fleetingly into the jazz-age lovers of Jeux or the exotic sinuousness of Les Orientales. From Wordnik.com. [Russell Maliphant Company] Reference
And the complexity of contrasting sentiments is matched by the syntactical sinuousness of that one long sentence. From Wordnik.com. [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference
Once this style is established, firm, faintly hypnotic, the crispness and sinuousness of the sentences ... gather to a magic. From Wordnik.com. [A Reader's Manifesto] Reference
At each fresh overmastering sorrow one more vein projects and develops its mortal sinuousness across our brows and under our eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Time Regained] Reference
She moved with the easy sinuousness of a she-leopard and in spite of himself the watcher was struck with admiration for her lithe beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon of Skulls]
If subtlety or sinuousness of meaning is desired, the body and the gesture of the hand may be powerful aids in inciting vital expression in the voice. From Wordnik.com. [Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System] Reference
With his mind tuned to the beautiful, the boy Nioola gazed at the work of genuine pagan Greek artists, who knew the sinuousness of the human form and the joy of living with no thought of the morrow. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
She elongated and contracted it to convince herself of its reptilian sinuousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
As before, she was dressed in black, in billowy fabrics that gave her movements added sinuousness. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
It was tricky, and required, besides a certain amount of careful judgement, the sinuousness of a cat, a monkey or a little boy. From Wordnik.com. [Laurels are Poison]
It's a weirdly febrile piece which weaves together Debussy-like sinuousness and Brahmsian density, plus a touch of d'Indy's own exoticism. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Mountains rose quickly, sheets of late-season snow at their crests, and the autostrada wove around and straight through them with an invigorating sinuousness. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Travel]
Nevertheless, Leith 'enjoyed the sinuousness and vigour of Josipovici's arguments -- as well as the sometimes childish scorn with which he sails into those he disagrees with.'. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
He stood on the hearthrug, with his back to the hearth, bending his body concavely and then convexly with the idle easy sinuousness of youth, and he saw that it was wonderful. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
His great wolf williamsburg esperantido indentation sinuousness, unrecoverable confidingly balanoposthitis and nonvisual guiltlessness, mahdist, appointment and rambunctious synchroflash, in no ferine primula. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
A limited force, 126, 127, 141, 148, 149, 254 and memory, 167 penetrating matter, 26, 27, 52, 179, 181, 182, 237, 239, 266, 269-70 as tendency to mobility, 128, 131, 132 and physics and chemistry, 31, 33, 35, 36, 225-6 in other planets, 256 as potentiality, 258 repetition in, and in the inert, 224, 225, 230, 231 sinuousness of, 71, 98, 99, 102, 112, 113, 116, 129-30, 212 social, 138, 140, 157-8, 265 in other solar systems, 256 and evolution of species, 247-8, 254, 269 theory of, and theory of knowledge, xii, 177, 179, 197 unforeseeableness of, 6, 8-9, 20, 26-7, 28, 29, 37, 45-6, 47, 48, 52. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
I have driven rapidly in a fast car, clinging to my hat and my hair against the New York wind, from one end of Fifth Avenue to the other, and what with the sunshine, and the flags wildly waving in the sunshine, and the blue sky and the cornices jutting into it and the roofs scraping it, and the large whiteness of the stores, and the invitation of the signs, and the display of the windows, and the swift sinuousness of the other cars, and the proud opposing processions of American subjects -- what with all this and with the supreme imperialism of the mounted policeman, I have been positively intoxicated!. From Wordnik.com. [Your United States Impressions of a first visit] Reference
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