shapeliness

Example Sentences

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The show-tune shapeliness of her melodies is often a sardonic frame for grim sentiments, to be faced with a ballooning bass line and a self-conscious smirk.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2019

What lifts this album above the other is the shapeliness of Springsteen’s tunes, catchier than they’ve been in years, and the vivid images in his lyrics.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2019

“What matters to me even more than the shapeliness and the dance of language is what the poem discovers deeper down than gracefulness and pleasures in figures of speech.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2019

"They share forms of passion and obsession, careful observation, desire to find shapeliness, and beauty to understand our world."

From Science Magazine • Apr. 21, 2017

These forms have given the models for a hundred familiar and commonplace works, which caught a little gleam of their glory, squaring to shapeliness some town-house of the West, or Southern bank or church.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe