arabesque
Example Sentences
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Other dancers followed, but the first surprise wasn’t in the foreground: It was dancers in the distance, dressed in bright yellow or blue, arabesques among the trees, visual echoes that made the dance expand.
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Elements that might be contrastive, arabesques versus body rolls, are all delivered unemphatically, on the same level — each snowflake registering before it merges with the water.
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A gentle male trio, in which the dancers lean forward in an arabesque and cascade to the floor, eventually leads to them sitting like sculptures, propped up on a straight arm and gazing down.
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A figure skater eases into a chassé, spin and stately arabesque.
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Though the conditions for such dancing are all wrong — dangerous, even — he twirls on, flying barefoot into an arabesque and landing it.
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