arabesque
Example Sentences
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The framing boundaries of those sensuous arabesques and organic spirals become like razors.
From Los Angeles Times
Later she applied similar discipline to motifs of slanted bars and arabesques — forms that nod to Seurat’s diagonals and Matisse’s cutouts.
From New York Times
But it was still enthralling to watch the choreography unfold, including a pose in her pas de deux with Cerdeiro in which her leg was extended in arabesque as he knelt before her.
From New York Times
“I talked to them about specific problems or transitions: how to go up into an arabesque, how to come out of it, how you could play with that.”
From New York Times
So do recurrent images in the dance: a running-in-place with heels kicked up behind, head back, one arm reaching high; a deeply tilted arabesque adorned with a quaking, shimmering hand.
From New York Times
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