sylphlike

And while classical ballet is no longer an art targeting the French elite, its globalization has not broken the sylphlike body pattern that is sought and venerated by those who dance.

Piero, a sylphlike, quietly sinuous personage in real life, questions his own corporeal existence in these lines and longs for a greater connection with his beloved.

A stiffened white collar, guaranteed to chafe the thickest of skins, adorned her elegant neck, while white stockings and laced white shoes decorated her sylphlike limbs.

Tharp is not acting out the lyrics on stage, as one commentator intoned: She's merely taken the names, the vague, early 1960s Long Island setting and the initial ages (in Act One they're teenagers) of her main characters from four Joel songs: "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant," "Movin' Out," "Why, Judy, Why" and "James." From these spare songs, Tharp has fashioned a resonant, mythic story about Eddie (performed by the Baryshnikovian John Selya), his girlfriend Brenda (knock-'em-dead Elizabeth Parkinson), Tony (the plangent virtuoso Keith Roberts), Judy (the sylphlike Ashley Tuttle) and her fiance, James (the danseur noble Benjamin Bowman).

Curiously, there are people who voice opinions like this even though they themselves are far from sylphlike and might be considered fat by slimmer folk.

No doubt because, as the report shows, 45 per cent of man are obese as against only one in three of us sylphlike things who fill up on fruit and veg while they overdose on sugar, salt and booze.

"Easy there, calm down," I said softly, because Cleo was coming to join us with her swarm of sylphlike paladins.

Wouldn't lean, fit and healthy be a better goal than sleek, slender and sylphlike?

At 5ft 4in and weighing a sylphlike 8st 9lb, he's a pint-sized power machine with a sparkle in his eye and a presence that belies his tiny frame.

Former French Open champion and Wimbledon semi-finalist Sue can still boast a sylphlike figure and has a fabulous wardrobe of clothes.

"The sylphlike" appearance of the ballet dancer, in particular, is frequently noted in dance literature and critiques.

Looking sylphlike in his concert get-up--his face slashed ear-to-ear by a band of black paint, his eyes behind their pale contact lenses flashing a roadkill stare--Manson lolls backstage, discussing the teen murders in Littleton, Colorado, and his special place in their history.

The sylphlike, weightless woman and the tall, slender prince have long been the ideal aesthetic for ballet dancers.

Ever self-deprecating about her appearance, Kate's sylphlike figure has attracted endless criticism about her weight.

The composition's rigidity is relieved by the sylphlike presence of the three girls, who are all wearing white dresses; the older two are standing while the youngest lies on a sofa.