How To Use Balletic In A Sentence

  • Denis collaborated with choreographer Bernardo Montet on the film and at times it has the appearance of an extended dance piece, brutal and balletic.
  • But ultimately all that action, superbly choreographed and balletic, is only a contrivance and nothing more.
  • They're on old-style roller skates, doing balletic disco-dancing, and this is their anthem.
  • He made a break for the train platform, leaping balletically from the edge of the warehouse roof onto the platform's edge.
  • UPDATE: Tait Cueto trailed his toe just onto the whitewash before balletically, beautifully lifting his boot. Rugby World Cup: Just Ten Minutes to Go, 15-6 Down
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  • This was probably the most balletic of the pieces, with a concern for purity of line.
  • Sitting on the photography bench on the edge of the court, I don't think I've seen anything so balletic, visceral and exciting.
  • And though the movement vocabulary was unmistakably balletic, the visual appeal of the work may more often be associated with rock music videos.
  • She made her debut dancing with Anton Dolin's company in London in 1929, performing balletic interludes in revues at the Coliseum.
  • The furniture that night was moved silently, balletically, as if by elves. The Times Literary Supplement
  • As the chanteuse unravels the slang, a dancer in gangster dress moves balletically in silhouette behind her. Jules Dassin's Film Noir Triumph
  • The lovers float through balletic lifts and dips, mimicked by other couples in the background.
  • Even without choreography, Stiles 'balletic training shines through her pedestrian movements. G. Roger Denson: Julia Stiles and Mimi Goese Take On Godly Sexual Politics at BAM
  • And the logo-bearing spoiler lingers in the bodywork until you reach 60mph, at which point it rises balletically. Times, Sunday Times
  • One reason that the violence in "The Matrix"—those floating fistfights, the annihilation of entire squads of soldiers by cartwheeling guerrillas—can fairly be called balletic is that, according to the rules of the movie, what is being destroyed is not real in the first place: the action has the safety of play and the excitement of the apocalyptic. Philocrites: May 2003 Archives
  • ‘This is a balletic way of examining people's ethnic attitudes,’ Dokeva said.
  • It is precisely because Frayn establishes the people that the famous second act, in which we see the farce from a backstage perspective during a matinee in Goole, is more than a balletic exercise. Noises Off - review
  • On the podium his feet are as rooted to the ground as Nelsons's are balletically airborne. CBSO, Stephen Hough/Nelsons; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Nott – review
  • I swung my leg balletically up over the edge of the table to reveal that I was wearing orange fluorescent ankle socks.
  • The subject seems to dance with balletic grace.
  • Apart from its balletic set-pieces of gunfights, the film ran a gauntlet of emotions from violent excitement to melodramatics to softhearted sentimentality.
  • Like the conflicting elements of wind and fire, the two men engage in an hour-long balletic duel, chasing each other across the stage.
  • It's the physical action she likes, especially stunts involving ‘flying’ and balletic fight sequences.
  • Small, tricky, balletic jumps and a quick circle of turns follow little hornpipe steps or a doglike shake of the body, and Boal makes the speed and detail look easy.
  • There was certainly nothing conventionally "balletic" about Margot's display of anguish, the kind of raw, visceral emotion said to have defined Sarah Bernhardt's portrayal of Marguerite. The Sheila Variations
  • This balletic score received a performance filled with rhythmic verve and brio.
  • Tarasova, who blustered into our session just as I was completing a triple axel with joyful exuberance flying out of my overly balletic pinkies, clapped her hands in delight. Welcome to My World
  • This balletic score received a performance filled with rhythmic verve and brio.
  • I studied people at parties and picked up elements in popular dances and brought them into our more balletic style, thus transforming it into a contemporary language. Times, Sunday Times
  • As if he could sense my tension, the driver hammered down on the wheel and the taxi shimmied across two lanes of speeding traffic before easing balletically and near-suicidally into the left lane, neatly cutting off an eighteen-wheeler. Miss Misery
  • The subject seems to dance with balletic grace.
  • Martinez moved around and up the poll with the athleticism of an accomplished gymnast, twisting, turning and pivoting with balletic grace.
  • More athletic than balletic, she skated like a well-trained chimp.
  • Patrick Swayze, the balletically athletic actor who rose to stardom in the films “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost” and whose 20-month battle with advanced pancreatic cancer drew wide attention, died Monday. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Patrick Swayze, Star of ���Dirty Dancing,' Dies at 57
  • The mainly rudimentary movement has a balletic base. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some Christians decided to be offended, but Jerry also features tap-dancing klansmen and The Producers, famously, features balletic storm-troopers.
  • Just as urban gangmembers don't leap about balletically, real hippies had none of the wholesome peppiness displayed by the performers in ‘Hair.’
  • It speaks to the way life comes and goes, with its beauties and tragedies, through its balletic recording of transience and impermanence.
  • The opera is beautifully suited to the balletic form, with a dramatic setting, strongly drawn characters and a plot of enduring depth.
  • There are points of contact with western tradition - the grace is balletic , and the musicians form a sort of Greek chorus - but this is very different, almost alien, from European dance.
  • John Woo's singular filmmaking style, as well as the first time I heard the term "balletic" used to describe gunplay rather than, well, ballet. Cinematical
  • Four dancers, bare-chested in flesh-coloured tights, moved in a soft balletic style, weaving in and out of a clever pattern of parallel leaps and arches.
  • There is a correct way to dance a waltz that is almost balletic in its strictness, but, to a large extent, in club dance anything goes and you just see where it gets you.
  • These stylized balletic duels are lovely to look at, but, let's face it - enough is enough already.
  • They're on old-style roller skates, doing balletic disco-dancing, and this is their anthem.
  • He performed a samba that was clean, energetic and crisp, but the judges gave him very flimsy scores - tying him for last place in the round - insisting that his style was too "balletic" for the samba and that his feet weren't pointed correctly. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
  • In a bewildering balletic dance, giraffes use their necks to head butt each other in battle.
  • When Messi collects the ball and sets off on one of his balletic dribbles, it is as though the ball is glued to his boot, and it is merely a game of playground 'tig'. Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • If that sounds a little extreme, how about learning the balletic capoeira? Times, Sunday Times
  • But as for the rest of the work, its makers had their hands full pushing the notion that balletic dance movements could stand in for street-gang macho.
  • Akiko and Hanako glide balletically through the trees.
  • I thought of how adroitly, almost balletically, he had controlled that disintegrating machine, until there was nothing left of it but ballistics and velocity, the inevitable collapse of order into chaos. Spin
  • A kind of goddess and her cavaliers dance balletically. Times, Sunday Times
  • The most magical things about Matthew Bugg's balletic Ariel are the flying effects; his sturdy body never quite fits his name.
  • Wisps of steam spiralled balletically in the broken shards of sunlight, Tam watching their graceful dance for a suspended moment while somewhere in his head he knew he was about to switch on again, stretch mind and body against the rack of their predicament. Country of the Blind
  • With almost balletic grace, she launches a giant hammer at the screen. Times, Sunday Times
  • They pose balletically in studios, chase each other underwater, admire themselves in store windows.
  • I thought her leg lines were gorgeous, I loved how she danced high on the balls of her feet, on releve, throughout, I loved how almost balletic it looked. Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Semi-Final
  • Their balletic movements are heightened versions of everyday gestures; their costumes are mundane.
  • There is something about him that is unconvincing, but in full flight he can look almost balletic. Times, Sunday Times
  • Today sexual-harassment suits might have shut down his balletic endeavors, for Diaghilev was inveterate about conscripting into romance the young men he made the leading male stars of his company, most notably Nijinsky and Massine. The Passions of an Impresario
  • Suddenly, the feeble figure on the bed leapt up with a balletic movement, and, clutching its stomach, sprinted towards the toilet.
  • There was a balletic quality to the goal, yet he is a gangling figure.
  • Wolfe's cast brings a buoyant freshness to the play: Preston's innocent, tomboyish Miranda; Ellis's balletically beautiful Ariel, Bougere's feral poignancy. Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
  • He began, almost balletically, to throw them behind him, leaving his team to catch them. Times, Sunday Times
  • The 25-year-old was at her balletic best against the feisty Myskina as she skipped into the semi-finals for the third time in her past three visits.
  • If her dancing was restricted to the gentlest of shimmies, the music had a genuinely balletic quality to it. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's something extraordinary about an industrial robot at work - mainly because of their truly balletic sense of movement, full of precision and elegance.
  • And obviously, the Russians always have a beautiful balletic style.
  • Originally, the school was formed in the 18th Century to hone the skills of cavalry men, but has gone on to evolve dressage into ‘Haute Ecole’, a style which requires the horsemen to move in intricate formation with their beautiful high-stepping Lipizzaners performing such balletic movements as pirouettes, croupades and ballotades.
  • For some it is a peerless amalgam of balletic grace and surgical artistry, to others ping-pong is a panda. Times, Sunday Times
  • And though the movement vocabulary was unmistakably balletic, the visual appeal of the work may more often be associated with rock music videos.
  • They're on old-style roller skates, doing balletic disco-dancing, and this is their anthem.
  • Manes of threaded fog leaped and bowed with balletic malice, embracing the adversaries, whispering promises of beautiful demise into their unheeding ears.
  • Luke slides his offset spatula under each one and then, as he goes to retract it, adds the little flourish, the barely perceptible twist of the wrist, that makes his work look simultaneously more mechanical and more balletic. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
  • Schoolchildren could spend days or weeks drilling for athletic and balletic displays in his honour.
  • A balletic leap from Alan Knott to dismiss Clive Lloyd.
  • There are points of contact with western tradition - the grace is balletic , and the musicians form a sort of Greek chorus - but this is very different, almost alien, from European dance.
  • The reel is the more balletic soft-shoe part of the dance, and not the clickety-clickety hard shoe bit. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has been a director of a balletic school that of Stara Zagora the ballet, to demotic оpera toJambol theater. Ballet Izisa in Youth home" George Bratanov"
  • A balletic leap from Alan Knott to dismiss Clive Lloyd.
  • But their rocking rhythms have a balletic grace. Times, Sunday Times
  • The skis seem a bit silly - a floppy 2m in length and barely 4cm wide, attached only to the toe of an attractive, if balletic, soft silver boot.
  • Both subsequently were premiered as complete balletic pieces.

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