lissom

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Echoes of XTC, Destiny's Child, marching bands and lissom Kompakt techno: there's a lot going on in Don't Try.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2013

"I hope you are not on the cover tomorrow," the lissom Russian smiled to a table of fellow competitors as she left a Daegu cafe near the athletes' village on Wednesday.

From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2011

You would expect lissom harmonies and dreamy-eyed songs about girls, of which there are plenty tonight – not least "Candyfloss", their single.

From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2011

But a number of Kim’s gold-medal predecessors were present Thursday, and all seemed thoroughly impressed that Kim had been so poised and lissom in her presentation and vaulting in her jumps.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2010

The very spirit of April seemed incarnated in her, so springy her step, so lissom the swaying of her young body, so warm and pink the color in her cheeks.

From Doubloons—and the Girl by Forbes, John Maxwell