| It speaks to the way life comes and goes, with its beauties and tragedies, through its balletic recording of transience and impermanence. |
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| Sitting on the photography bench on the edge of the court, I don't think I've seen anything so balletic, visceral and exciting. |
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| She made her debut dancing with Anton Dolin's company in London in 1929, performing balletic interludes in revues at the Coliseum. |
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| The opera is beautifully suited to the balletic form, with a dramatic setting, strongly drawn characters and a plot of enduring depth. |
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| They're on old-style roller skates, doing balletic disco-dancing, and this is their anthem. |
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| And though the movement vocabulary was unmistakably balletic, the visual appeal of the work may more often be associated with rock music videos. |
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| This was probably the most balletic of the pieces, with a concern for purity of line. |
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| Like the conflicting elements of wind and fire, the two men engage in an hour-long balletic duel, chasing each other across the stage. |
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| This balletic score received a performance filled with rhythmic verve and brio. |
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| But ultimately all that action, superbly choreographed and balletic, is only a contrivance and nothing more. |
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| Suddenly, the feeble figure on the bed leapt up with a balletic movement, and, clutching its stomach, sprinted towards the toilet. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| There was a balletic quality to the goal, yet he is a gangling figure. |
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| Or, on a less narrative note, how about the magnetic coupling of balletic grace and agile muscularity embedded in Russell Maliphant's work? |
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| Given the number of instruments she will have to perform on, I anticipate balletic moments for you all to witness. |
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| Zukerman's graceful gestures and swaying on the podium urged balletic scurrying from the violins and violas, with agile flutes following suit. |
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| There is something almost balletic about Cristiano Ronaldo's play that transforms mere possession of the ball into a footballing pas-de-deux. |
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| Montserrat Farré's paintings become covered in red, in signs that evoke the gypsy dancers' graceful movements of her balletic body. |
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| Their balletic style of acrobatics is captivating as snow falls on them continuously. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Denis collaborated with choreographer Bernardo Montet on the film and at times it has the appearance of an extended dance piece, brutal and balletic. |
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| And obviously, the Russians always have a beautiful balletic style. |
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| Both subsequently were premiered as complete balletic pieces. |
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| 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. |
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| More athletic than balletic, she skated like a well-trained chimp. |
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| Apart from its balletic set-pieces of gunfights, the film ran a gauntlet of emotions from violent excitement to melodramatics to softhearted sentimentality. |
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| Manes of threaded fog leaped and bowed with balletic malice, embracing the adversaries, whispering promises of beautiful demise into their unheeding ears. |
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| Everything about his game, from the silent, balletic footwork to his deceptive strength is functioning with clockwork precision. |
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| The operatic, balletic, theatrical style is less effective, however, when it comes to intimate and reflective moments, certainly in the scenes involving Taylor-Johnson's pallid, unalluring Vronsky. |
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| All the self-importance, bureaucratic inefficiency and laughable circuitousness of Whitehall is summed up in one balletic extension of his slender leg. |
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| The best-remembered moment of Max's emulation of Fairbanks's balletic athleticism is his deft and lethal stratagem when surrounded by a ring of swords. |
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| Sharp bending and turning, sudden neck movements, caresses, ear tweaks and pinches, rather than formalized balletic movements, mark many a Bausch production. |
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| On the contrary: I found The Assassin's balletic mystery and poise entirely engaging, although I had to confess that it was too opaque to capture my heart in the way that it had captured others' hearts at Cannes this year. |
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| Standing under what looks like the Barbican's Rain Room installation, balletic dancers clench and unravel behind her as she kicks down the top notes with complete authority, black ink trailing down her arms. |
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| I was joined at the theatre by about half a dozen other hardy souls for nearly two hours of graphically simulated gore-spatter and clangorously balletic monomachy of bodies and vehicles. |
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| As a team, they go to pieces with balletic exactitude. |
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| In 1840, Madame Vestris at Covent Garden returned the play to the stage with a relatively full text, adding musical sequences and balletic dances. |
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