Dictionary definition: sinewy

Article: Books: Just nuts about Brazil
The Independent - London;  June 8, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Brazilian women singers. Gal Costa is a self-made diva, glamorous and sensual, continuously adapting new composers to her sinewy style. And Chico Buarque is the poet/composer with a self-effacing demeanour, the intellectual among the songsters, whose ...

Article: THE ART OF CRITICISM: 15 BODY LANGUAGE
The Independent - London;  April 23, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... of the language in Dryden's verse, he was making this connection with the body. Yeats was always searching for a "sinewy" style, and though it now seems dated, perhaps rather macho, "muscular" used to be applied to prose. Before they were called ...

Article: Warehouse's 'Facade,' A Step-by-Step Look At Urban Change
The Washington Post;  October 5, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... plays guitar, violin, cello and drums (all in various combinations). Now there are two pixies, dancing in a similar sinewy style, playing off each other's movement. The audience roams among the three rooms on the third floor, taking in the different ...

Article: Sonny Rollins: Majesterial innovator returns and unsurpassed
New York Amsterdam News;  May 31, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Harlem-reared musician Sonny Rollins is not one to rest on his laurels. With nearly 50 albums to his credit, the inventive sinewy style tenor saxophonist -- often referred to as the jazz world's greatest living improviser -- has occasionally taken a hiatus ...

Article: Poetry of William Butler Yeats: In The Seven Woods
Monarch Notes;      700+ words ... ... stylistic necessities of play-writing-conversational exactness, dramatic bareness, the kind of sustained verbal tension and sinewy style which could easily communicate a mood or an emotion to an audience-began to strip his poetry of some of its baroque dreaminess ...

Article: Ballet Must Make Room Onstage for More Than One Genius
The Washington Post;  May 10, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Balanchine. We are cursed with George Balanchine, cursed with an overload of his ballets as well as with the ubiquity of the sinewy style he favored, his preference for plotless works on a naked stage, his taste for fast, skinny, emotionally guarded dancers ...

Article: SOUND CHECK
The Boston Globe;  June 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... to impel you to do, goosed along by the clipped strut of electric guitar, "Make U Move" kicks the album off in lean, sinewy style and sets the album's retro-wrapped agenda. Ultimately, "Rare Child" is designed to showcase Cotton's powerful pipes ...