Meanings of lissom in English

The Conservative party can form a government but its majority is slender.

Eve was slender and delicate, far too precious to risk so pointlessly.

A slender boy in grey was waiting for them in the veranda.

Then the slender shuttle is passed in and out among the threads.

Near the trunk of the cottonwood stood a slender woman in white.

Prime Minister John Key said the Kiwibank deal was an elegant solution.

Because it promises an elegant, win-win solution to the problem of poverty.

Scanbox is an elegant solution to a simple but persistently frustrating problem.

He is elegant, has a good repetitive easy action and excellent pace.

An elegant use of the card distinguishes the well-informed in social usage.

Yet there is nothing graceful about the overloaded boats heading towards Europe.

It was a large, red brick house built along graceful Georgian lines.

The flight of the nighthawk is free and graceful in the extreme.

The new broom has a rare chance to suggest a graceful exit.

The roof is battlemented, and the tracery in the windows is graceful.

However, the changing nature, and improvements in flexible work practices, may help.

Different parts of the economy are more flexible than others of course.

Background: Achieving proficiency in flexible endoscopy requires a great amount of practice.

Ms Sage said the government should be more flexible in its approach.

Certainly our attitude to creative freedom and game development remains fairly flexible.

Do you imagine she has given up communing with nimble young gentlemen?

Governments are anything but nimble, let alone open, in their decision-making processes.

These nimble operators not only help students cheat their way into universities.

Still young and nimble, John Maclean has already had two successful careers.

Feel that you have these strong and nimble elements in your body.

Risa stood just a moment longer, taking in Lilith's young, lithe form.

The leader was tall and lithe, the second very short but stocky.

Leesil didn't need a closer look to recognize the tall lithe stature.

She was a thing of lithe grace in her soft red silk.

To survive we must be ever ready, ever lithe of foot -

The Brazilian government needs to be more agile with this, he said.

Hisresearch interests include database systems, versioning systems,semantic web, and agile software development.

However, it was quite agile on the trail and on the rock.

It's a small one, an agile number with a lot of glass.

Traditional data centers are not as agile or flexible in meeting demand.

Here are the awesome products that will leave you smooth and supple.

The running and yoga kept him supple and younger than his years.

It was a nice, soft, supple fabric that made shoe cleaning easy.

All eyes were centred on the supple, graceful form of the dancer.

The whole agile, supple nature of the Greek entered into every fence.

The broad shoulders, strong arms, deft hands with their long nimble fingers.

What caught Owen's eye were the deft touches in crowded penalty areas.

He sets to sweeping, and is not very deft in the exercise.

It also was a deft ploy of blame-shifting, which exonerates his government.

From Civil War hospital experience the father had been a deft bonesetter.

Take the eggs, a limber knife and the salt to the stove.

I guess I might as well overhaul mine and limber it up.

His feet were also ironed, and the chain lashed to a limber.

It was not cold and stiff but warm and limber and fleshlike.

Now I'm back, drawn by accounts of a lighter, more limber show.

Redeemed himself with an almost identical acrobatic effort in the second half.

And not, I might add, doing anything unusually acrobatic at the time.

We manage to stay inside only by performing some extraordinary acrobatic contortions.

They are fast and acrobatic and fight with a savage, flesh-tearing ferocity.

Orange red, pale blue, E flat minor, acrobatic, Ariel-like in its changes.

To co-ordinate, you can't go far wrong with a willowy patterned neckscarf.

Kathleen Beck would be no help: her daughters were willowy, complacent things.

It was deeper than her willowy proportions had led him to expect.

The light, willowy machines are subject to every caprice of the wind.

Her body bent like a willowy bow, the epitome of supple strength.

In cold weather his preferences go toward the buxom, in summer, svelte.

Speck's SeeThru is about as svelte as a protective case can get.

More powerful speakers than the previous Pro make it a svelte boombox.

This suede low-top which delivers big-boot stability in a svelte alpine-centric package.

The Ultrabooks will be svelte and lightweight but still pack high-performace processors.

These lissome swimmers also provided entertainment for the more lethargic audience members.

She was in her early twenties, blond, lissome with a prepossessing naturalness.

He fired, and the lissome body dropped limp across the fire.

She stood tall and lissome, the picture of slender, robust health.

Tall and lissome, Dr. Brooks moved with the assertive gait of an athlete.

She was even taller and more lithesome than Storm had first thought.

Tall, lithesome, handsome, intelligent, proud of superior abilities, prouder of his style.

Yes that was me, the seductive dancing girl -lithesome Liss!

A pair of lithesome Twi'leks worked diligently massaging the Dug's neck and shoulders.

But in Josephine he saw now the swiftness and lithesome grace of a fawn.

The loose-jointed giant turned on his heel and left Brent standing alone.

He was rather tall, shaggy, loose-jointed, long-armed, broad-shouldered, and he squinted awfully.

We won't even need a loose-jointed confession, because we caught him black-handed.

A loose-jointed man in clerical garb came hurrying down the avenue.

He was-letus say-something like fourteen years old; long and loose-jointed and towheaded.

Her vest and train of white satin did not conceal her sylphlike form and delicate feet.

I had red cheeks and was ashamed of them, and my stocky, square-shouldered figure was anything but sylphlike.

Against the sombre background the arbor-vitae made, her slight figure, clad in soft, clinging white, seemed airy and sylphlike.

For at this writing in those parts the slender, sylphlike string-bean is not playing a minor part, as with us.

Sylphlike damsels looked up to the youthful heroes with intensest admiration on their features; old women coddled and fondled them; staff-using, stooping-backed patriarchs blessed them.

Persephone nods, then picks herself up and breaks into a loose-limbed jog.

Lena sat loose-limbed, her head bowed, visibly sagging in front of me.

Now, right now, Jamal performs a loose-limbed, solitary dance among the stone tablets.

In uttering those words Herr Schulz seemed suddenly to become loose-limbed and easy.

Feeling loose-limbed and relaxed, she began running up the incline toward Warren's house.