In each case the material put forward for consumption has a certain shapeliness, a self-awareness of its own patternings, and an underlying message. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Similarly with Cather, Torrance doesn't mention the Wharton/James-inspired craftsmanship of Alexander's Bridge, the manipulations of perspective in My Antonia, the formal "shapeliness" of a book like A Lost Lady. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In short, he has that fuller, subtler, and more universal kind of shapeliness which the unthinking (gazing at pigs and distinguished journalists) mistake for a mere absence of shape. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Everyone who knows anything about science fiction knows robots would never be sexually interested in other robots, regardless of the shapeliness of their chest cowlings. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Pianist Mahesh Balasooriya, still in his twenties, imbued his solos with shapeliness beyond his years. ❋ Debra Levine (2011)
If you walk into the village, you can hardly fail to look up at their wonderful shapeliness and sheer size. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The men become caricatures of what physical men ought to be, and their women and children are pale and anaemic, with eyes ringed darkly, who stoop and slouch, and are early twisted out of all shapeliness and beauty. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The first thing stories do is give shapeliness and form to what might look random and chaotic. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They may be remarkable or ingenious in their process, but unremarkable in their shapeliness -- in turn, such poems are difficult to remember. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And is it just me, or is the visual metaphor equating shapeliness and style being used to good effect in this fabulous photo produced and distributed by Boeing forty years ago to showcase the then-brand-new 747? ❋ Christine Negroni (2010)
So much more beautiful than the one likeness King had seen of her that for a second he doubted who she was -- more lovely than he had imagined her even in his dreams -- she stood there, human and warm and real, who had begun to seem a myth, clad in gauzy transparent stuff that made no secret of sylph-like shapeliness and looking nearly light enough to blow away. ❋ Dj Barber (2010)
"It has a classical and deeply satisfying shapeliness, but also contains sequences of hilarious comic writing unrivalled in English literature." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Much of this show – from Von Teese's strip, to the cartoonish shapeliness of skirt suits padded at the shoulder and hip, to the sheer stockings with a motif of the Eiffel Tower climbing the back of the leg – was designed to remind the audience that Gaultier has a strong heritage in lingerie-influenced fashion, from Madonna's bras to Kylie's corset dresses. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She was short, and her youthful shapeliness had become a thick-set middle-aged appearance. ❋ GILBERT MORRIS (2010)
The corpulent dame now has dresses made to exhibit, not to conceal, her shapeliness ❋ Unknown (2007)
