How To Use Arabesque In A Sentence

More an Irish sprite than anything, Mairead leapt, twirled, and 'arabesqued' her way across the stage courting us through her violin. Dr. Cara Barker: The Beauty of Giving Your Whole Heart
Frankly, I'm not built for glissades, arabesques, entrechats or mincing around en pointe.
Amongst the intricate arabesques little angels'-heads were embossed, and on one side a group of cherubs was bearing a "monstrance" with the sacred Host through silver clouds. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster
These elements are set against a large field in shades of pink, swept with arabesques of grays and dashes of white, sometimes with light impasto in the brushwork.
Other panels are decorated with arabesques consisting of delicate scrolls incorporating stylized sunflowers and anthemia rendered in very thin lines of ivory-colored paint.

With their sculptural groupings of precisely calibrated arabesques, these dances distilled Ashton's personal classicism to pure essence.
The Shaykh opened the door and they two entered a vestibule vaulted with onyx stones and arabesqued with gold, and they stayed not walking till they came to a great hall and a wide, paved and walled with marble. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Not much has changed since the 1920s, and walking into the lobby, with ornate Ottoman furniture and arabesque tiles, is like stepping into an Agatha Christie novel.
Yet Matisse continued to work in this trademark style, with its emphasis on arabesque lines, bright colors and decoration, throughout his long artistic life.
Other panels are decorated with arabesques consisting of delicate scrolls incorporating stylized sunflowers and anthemia rendered in very thin lines of ivory-colored paint.
Such arabesques are called grotesques by the ignorant. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
The first subject is announced appassionato by the strings, the piano joining with arabesquery that follows the general outlines. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
And whilst each one hent bunch in hand, the gardener brought the wine-service and setting it before them, on a tray of porcelain arabesqued with red gold, recited these two couplets, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
There was a beautifully pregnant pause in the finish of tour jetés, which allowed us to see the stretched and steady arabesque in landing.
There would be no lines of wilis in arabesque drawn magnetically together in Giselle, nor any grand polonaise for the ensemble in Theme and Variations.
Elsewhere in his oeuvre, Aboriginal dot patterns, Islamic arabesques and Chinese fire motifs lend a mystical, ancient aspect to his art.
It is decorated with birds and various animals set against a lush pattern of arabesques - intricate patterns of interlaced lines.
An old brass clock, inlaid with arabesques, adorned the mantel of the ill-cut white stone chimney-piece, above which was a greenish mirror, whose edges, bevelled to show the thickness of the glass, reflected a thread of light the whole length of a gothic frame in damascened steel-work. Eug�nie Grandet
It is to be noted that in ‘classical’ Islamic architecture in Persia, decoration took the form of very geometric carving - arabesque - in intricate patterns, as well as verses from the Koran.
You walk across the courtyard into the arabesqued porch directly opposite the entrance and you are in a weirdly high single-file corridor like those secret passages in the innards of Egyptian pyramids. Remnant of a Humanist Past
There's a beautiful sequence where Bond lifts her repeatedly in arabesque, each time on the in-breath, so that she gazes for a rapturous moment at some far horizon before returning to the formal intricacies of the duet. Birmingham Royal Ballet: Pointes of View
In one of the untitled drawings, a characteristically inverted robed figure, skirts ornamented with ink arabesques, topped with a hat, recalls the painted fables of Chagall.
Amidst the "arabesque" of richly drawn characters, Suskind reveals a few bombshell discoveries regarding the Bush Administration's irresponsibility and outright lies. Dan Brown: George W. Bush Blew the Biggest British Terror Investigation Ever to Score Pre-Midterm Election Political Points... McCain '08!
She was spectacular, ... bourréing across the stage as if eiderdown in the wind or traveling weightlessly in arabesques voyagées.
Such circles and lines, plus arabesques and rectilinear passages, occur in most of the work that follows.
So I started to play trumpet in a different way, drawing lines in space, musical lines, kind of arabesque kind of musical calligraphy. Trumpeter Jon Hassell's 'Fourth World' Music
Matisse said he was possessed at this point by a love of line and of the arabesque - ‘those givers of life’ - which stirred his senses and appeased his spirit.
A single-panel work has arabesques of vines and blooms surrounding the word ‘OOPS!’
The balance between instruments is especially fine when the inner voices begin to spin their own tentative arabesques.
He sees the gaiety of Sundays, the flashes of the sun, the oddity of a crowd carried away by the rhythm of the valses, the laughter, the clinking of glasses, the vibrating and hot atmosphere; and he applies to this spectacle of joyous vulgarity his gifts as a sumptuous colourist, the arabesque of the lines, the gracefulness of his bathers, and the happy eurythmy of his soul. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
The silent roadway looked like a long riband of polished silver, flecked here and there by the dark arabesques of waving shadows.
Our usherettes start striking attitudes and arabesques amongst the audience and thus starts the Prelude to a trilogy of vignettes, punctuated by intervals where we are thankfully encouraged to get up and move about.
The initial twelve-minute aerial dance found them on a rope suspended from the ceiling, executing arabesques while spinning with sublime grace.
In many of the halls still standing are arabesques, fashioned in mosaics, fret-work and delicate tracery not unworthy of a place in modern decorative art. Cradle Lands of Canadian Indians
Also, I bought my zills after class (the Arabesque ones) and so I took them home and sewed on the elastic and my favorite beads on the thumbs (so you can tell them apart) and then sewed a very proud making zill bag with some black silk and my left over trim and tassels and some ribbon. Finger cymbals too loud? problem solved: crocheted zill covers « raincoaster
The term for Arabesque is a decorative pattern which is typical of Islamic art.
The misterioso tremolo opening of the third movement was particularly effective, likewise the unison string cantilenas and some wonderful feather-light arabesques on piano.
Rather than arabesques of asparagus grass and lingonberries on the floor of a boreal forest, they envision white treeless wastes.
The Beauty Pill are a surgically precise band whose compositions perform limber arabesques without losing a step, and Clark's homespun production accentuates every contortion.
arabesque" and other formal designs gave employment to the carvers, in making an infinite repetition of fiddles, festoons, and ribbons, in the execution of which they became so proficient, that their work is more often admired for its exquisite finish than for any intrinsic interest in the subject or design. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship
Italian sgraffito designs were mostly scrolls or arabesque patterns.
In single file, their ostrich plumes nodding, their leopard skin tunics contrasting curiously with the marble and arabesqued metal of the ancient palace, they moved across the wide room and halted momentarily at the golden door to the left of the throne-dais. The Conquering Sword of Conan
Tawny filemot gilding the valleys, each seam and rut a scroll or arabesque, and all the year pouring out her heart's blood to flush the maples, the great impurpled granites warm with the sunshine they have drunk all summer! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
There are, for example, a polka, a fughetta, a rondo, a rondino, an impromptu, a mazurka, a barcarolle, two arabesques, a ragtime, three polonaises, a tango and a rumba, not to mention a sequence of four nocturnes.
In his late style the backgrounds are light, the register of colour is greatly heightened, and the emphasis is on the decorative design of swirling Rococo arabesques of flowers and foliage.
The movement had the dreamy, almost improvisatory aura of an arabesque.
Throwing his body up to a great height for a moment, he leans back, his legs extended, beats an entrechat-sept, and, slowly turning over onto his chest, arches his back and, lowering one leg, holds an arabesque in the air. Secrets of Nijinsky
Vatican he assisted Giovanni d'Udine in his arabesques, Polidoro in his antique chiaroscuri, and executed some of the most beautiful historical paintings of the loggie di Raffaello. The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
One of the girls always did a funny little jump before releasing the ball, while I moved into arabesque on plié to gently let go.
No movement is gratuitous - every jump, turn, arabesque and gesture conveys information.
This is a piece for eight dancers, brought together in processions and ensembles, but framed around duets in which classical shapes are sculpted and explored - the beauty of arabesques or slowly revolving turns in attitude.
He invented that style of decoration which we now call arabesque or grotesque. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
The artist's repertoire of imagery has remained consistent: arabesques, medallions, garlands, lobed rosettes, various tropical flowers and fruit are assembled in trophylike configurations.
Cassatt's color prints, with their spatial compression, play of abstract patterns, bold blocks of color, and arabesque lines, fulfilled the conditions of this new symbolist art.
The exterior is in typical late Victorian style, the arabesque influences and designs preserved for the interior.
No movement is gratuitous - every jump, turn, arabesque and gesture conveys information.
He draws arabesques with charcoal and thinned black acrylic, creating labyrinths of interconnected markings often structured by a loose grid.
The curling movement of the smoke is echoed in the arabesques formed by the curving trunks and branches of two trees, which are also reflected in a pond in the foreground.
Her pointes spark; her arms rise as if unveiling sculpture; and, when her leg swings out into a forthright arabesque, it's like a candid remark from the young, the bright, and the beautiful.
In some paintings this element takes the form of a single continuous line, while in others it includes shorter line fragments drifting off as disembodied arabesques.
Three men in white shirts, black pants and starched ties do wobbly arabesques as if struggling against the wind.
Then presently we were in the famous Court of the Lions, where a group of those beasts, at once archaic and puerile in conception, sustained the basin of a fountain in the midst of a graveled court arabesqued and honeycombed round with the wonted ornamentation of the Moors. Familiar Spanish Travels
I was delighted to see a four-post bed, with mosquito bars, and a clean pulu mattrass, with a linen sheet over it, covered with a beautiful quilt with a quaint arabesque pattern on a white ground running round it, and a wreath of green leaves in the centre. The Hawaiian Archipelago
The artist's linear arabesques reminded Greenberg of the feminized forms of Art Nouveau.
North Carolina, the company will perform repertory works July 20-22, including Esplanade and Arabesque.
The sunken rosettes, surrounded by raised arabesque borders, between the caryatides, are sculptured with such a careful reference to the distance at which they must be seen, that they appear as firm and delicate as if near the spectator's eye. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867
Frankly, I ain't built for glissades, arabesques, entrechats or mincing around en pointe.
‘The arabesque patterns symbolize the five important attributes of the Koran,’ he continues.
The eclectic score bears this out; it is a rich, cosmopolitan blend of Strauss and Scriabin, with certain intimations of French Impressionism confected by Middle Eastern-sounding arabesques and layered harmonies. Passion and Pyrotechnics Fit for a King
Now, however, each melody becomes enwrapped in a vocal arabesque of such complexity that it almost vanishes and the sounds being made are not only intrusive but downright unpleasant.
All the houses on the "Place" have red tiled roofs, and gables Renaissance style very varied in form, and each one with a characteristic window above, framed richly en coquille, and decorated with arabesques. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
Ballet classes have begun right here in Chiswick, aimed not at schoolgirls or internationally acclaimed dancing stars, but at adults who may never have performed a pointe or an arabesque in their lives.
If you want an allover pattern in your home, though, I tell clients to relegate it to the floor or to upholstery; you can't get away with silver arabesques all over a ceiling like this unless it's really, really high. Terms of Adornment
The latter's designs for arabesques of ironwork for garden gates, are still to be found in the Stifling papers in Glasgow.
Art nouveau's swirling forms and arabesques, decorative playfulness and openness to the exotic, in this case from Japan rather than China, also seem descended from rococo.
The orchestra provides ‘a resonating environment’ for the melodies and arabesques of the flute.
Such circles and lines, plus arabesques and rectilinear passages, occur in most of the work that follows.
In classical ballet pirouettes are executed on pointe, as are arabesques.
The height of the extended legs in the arabesques was uniform throughout the shades and the spacing between dancers was as close to perfection as one could reasonably wish.
Of Near Eastern inspiration are the arabesques, ogees, scrolls, and flower heads outlined in raised gold paste.
The ineffective, protected by an Old Boy system more bomb-proof than teacher tenure, get arabesqued to make-work jobs like Coordinator for Pep Squad and Student Store. School administration: the education reform they don't talk about
The free hand propelled itself away with uncalled-for violence, before describing a ragged arabesque in the air and finally bivouacking on Daniel's hipAll emotional and psychological perception aside, the precise physical depiction of this tiny event recalls Winer's earlier training and practice as a painter. Peter Clothier: The Marriage Artist
It consists of a series of wide and narrow bands of rinceaux, arabesques, and garlands in niello and filigree, with one lower section including an arcade with figures.
For more than three months, they cut and assembled tiles into starburst mosaics for the wall and incised into the buff-colored arches and window frames a succession of arabesques, palmettes and other floral and geometric designs—bringing the beauty and mastery of Islamic art into the present. The Many Paths Toward an Islamic Aesthetic
Add to this a loose, flowing pattern of arabesques and vines, rendered in paint and other mediums.
A pirouette, a brisé, two arabesques and she's gone.
Tawny filemot gilding the valleys, each seam and rut a scroll or arabesque, and all the year pouring out her heart's blood to flush the maples, the great impurpled granites warm with the sunshine they have drunk all summer! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
After all, the corps and coryphées do posé arabesque by stepping onto pointe,, jerking their backs into hyperextension so that their hips jut out, thus snapping, rather than floating their extensions.
The painting is equal to the height and more than the length of the figured arabesques in Jackson Pollock's breakthrough Mural, which Sleep also resembles in the handling of paint.
_grotesque_, or _promiscuously interspersed_; and the description here given leaves out the most beautiful kind of arabesque, namely, the inlaid work of geometrical figures in colored marbles, in which the The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
Jaypur marble, with their arabesqued cupolas and lacery in stone. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
However, in a series of relevés sur la pointe to arabesque she has an unfortunate jerk to her chin as she hits her balance.
But, little by little one herb and flower after the other becomes individualized -- they are artists living themselves out into hues and lines and parts of a tableau; the vine draws itself in an arabesque which is perfect _because_ self-forming; and the whole harmonize with the sway of sunlight and shadow, with rustling breeze and hurrying ant on the footpath, and chirping birds, so exquisitely that you may feel, as you never have in studying human art or in poetry, that tones, colors, curves, organisms The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
It consists of a horse-shoe arch, the face of which is ornamented with gilded glass mosaic, forming the entrance to a semi-circular recess beautifully adorned with arabesques and inscriptions, the top of the dome being a large white marble slab hollowed out in the form of a pecten shell. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond
The latter's designs for arabesques of ironwork for garden gates, are still to be found in the Stifling papers in Glasgow.
Of Near Eastern inspiration are the arabesques, ogees, scrolls, and flower heads outlined in raised gold paste.
The passage let into a circular sanctorum, its albescent walls worked in intricate arabesques, its high vaulted ceiling held aloft by fluted alabaster columns. Conan The Unconquered
Moorish archways and arabesque screens slip a lattice of shadows across the comings and goings in the lobby.
Hanging on the walls, hints of Buckminster Fuller's efficient geodesic domes can be detected mingling with M C Escher's delicate figurative tessellations and traditional Islamic arabesques.
The silent roadway looked like a long riband of polished silver, flecked here and there by the dark arabesques of waving shadows.
I was delighted to see a four-post bed, with mosquito bars, and a clean pulu mattrass, with a linen sheet over it, covered with a beautiful quilt with a quaint arabesque pattern on a white ground running round it, and a wreath of green leaves in the centre. The Hawaiian Archipelago
So meeting Emily and having conversations about what she thought was important in dance and what she saw in dance kind of trained my eye as well … I want to tell a story Emily told me-we saw quite a bit of dance in London and talked a lot about dance-Emily explained there's this move called the arabesque, a ballet position, and it originated from this idea that seems very theatrical and very physical-theater, if I do say so myself, of trying to point to the moon - Walker Blogs Combined Feed
The curtain's incised pattern of soft green, stemlike arabesques recalls 19 th-century wallpaper design and, at the same time, snakes or lizards curling into themselves.
When the Young Girl first dances with her Cousin her arabesques are tentative but outward-going.
144 I understand the curiously carved windows cut in arabesque-work of marble. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Family photo albums are packed with the evidence of success – en pointe at an improbably early age, dressed in Hungarian folk costume with hands on hips, or skating with one leg lifted in a graceful arabesque. I'm not angry with Edith any more
A counterpoint to Das Wunder, it is abstractly overpainted with arabesques of yellow and white and ornamented with a garland of the eyes that figure in its title.
Elsewhere, we witness fluid arabesques that suggest currents of wind or water and a grove of green trees, their leaves knotted into high relief.
Only the crudest works of plastic art, capricci and arabesques, have no intellectual content; and even these are good in so far as they convey the playfulness of fancy. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III
The merit of the picture is in the arabesque, which is charming and original. Modern Painting
In a central chamber scalloped with light and hung with tapestried arabesques they lean on bolsters & smoke long chibouks of haschisch scented with opium & amber.
Like the Taj, the garden elements follow the Arabesque concept, standing on their own and constituting the whole.

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