Lissome

Word LISSOME
Character 7
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Definitions and meanings of "Lissome"

What do we mean by lissome?

Moving or able to move with grace and ease; lithe and graceful. adjective

Easily bent; supple. adjective

Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome; light; nimble; active. Sometimes written lissom.

Lithe; quick and graceful in movement adjective

Moving and bending with ease adjective

Flexible and graceful in movement; lithe.

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The word "lissome" in example sentences

A sharp critic might accuse Mr. Du Maurier of lingering too complacently on the lines in question; of having a certain ideal of "lissome" elongation to which the promiscuous truth is sometimes sacrificed. ❋ Henry James (1879)

Meanwhile, gazing out across the back lake, where we fed kitchen scraps to the seagulls, I always found it hard to take my eyes off the pelicans, those majestic, stately, yet grunting survivors of some antediluvian epoch, or else to keep track of the lissome cormorants after they dived energetically for fish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Text is always an innocuous beam of pure starlight which personal experience * never* has any sort of bearing on; it merely enters through your ajna chakra and slips down slowly into your throat, from which elegant and suitably academic explications de texte flow like the finest lavender honey made by lissome elven beekeepers. ❋ Bossymarmalade (2009)

She seemed so much softer, so much more pliant, and tender, and lissome. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With a sound like finely threaded silk, her Mozart was lissome and endearing. ❋ Brad Hill (2011)

Eva Green is Vesper Lynd, a lissome British treasury official and emotional chameleon. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

Though lacking the elm's lissome beauty, the London plane is an ideal city tree—fast-growing, tolerant of pollutants and pruning, untroubled by pathogens or insect pests. ❋ Thomas J. Campanella (2011)

His Bond starts out as a stone killer—The Spy Who Came In From the Warmth—though his heart is touched, if not quite pierced, by Vesper Lynd, a lissome, mostly cool British Treasury official played superbly by Eva Green. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

Coyote Grace's hunky, bearded Joe Stevens is a transman; and lissome, soft-butch Pureka is genderqueer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr. Herzog's homage, with a lissome Isabelle Adjani, 11,000 rats (this is Mr. Herzog, after all), and the haunted light of the Dutch masters, is a masterpiece. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She showed off his frocks in their full glamour, her feline grace a perfect foil for his lissome dresses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Earlier this year, Bianna Golodryga, a lissome 31-year-old financial reporter for ABC News, attended that reliable magnet for trouble that is the White House Correspondents Dinner in D.C., where she sat next to Peter Orszag, the 41-year-old, suspiciously hairlined head of the Office of Management and Budget and a top economic adviser to the president. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Excerpts from Roland Petit's 1974 "Proust ou Les intermittences du Coeur," presented with different casts, offered rewarding dance challenges to both the lissome and impressive Guillaume Côté and the impassioned and intense Mr. Gomes. ❋ Robert Greskovic (2010)

During these final scenes, performances radiating their own redemptive powers are filed by the lissome Heather Lind as 16-year-old Perdita, by bold Francois Battiste as her lover and Polixenes's son Florizel, by effortlessly funny Jesse Tyler Ferguson and by always reliable Hamish Linklater as the scamming Autolycus. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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