light-footed
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Watching a 300- or 400-pound bear execute a light-footed cousin to a tour jeté snaps your head around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Zagar keeps the cinematographer Zak Mulligan’s camera hand-held and light-footed.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
So it’s fitting in a way that her latest, “Avalon,” is a kind of modern fairy tale, a light-footed Cinderella story that documents a young woman’s rise from a wretched existence in stylish, witty fashion.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
She reckons that what she calls "light-footed mice" can still lick a trap clean and get away alive.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2021
The sea lay quiedy, bathed in a shy, light-footed light, a dancing play of black and silver that extended without limits all about me.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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