Literary notes about sinuous (AI summary)
The word sinuous is often employed to evoke images of graceful, winding motion and curvilinear forms in literature. Authors use it to describe everything from the meandering paths of rivers and roads, which twist and bend naturally through landscapes ([1], [2], [3]), to the supple, elegant movements of living beings—whether the undulating motions of a snake climbing a stem ([4]) or the fluid, graceful gestures of a dancer or a person's subtle smile ([5], [6]). It is also applied to portray structural qualities, as in the sinuous curves of architecture or even abstract concepts like the twisting trajectories in natural phenomena ([7], [8]). This versatile descriptor enriches the aesthetic detail of a scene by conjuring both visual beauty and a sense of dynamic, natural rhythm.
- Clotilde took the arm of Monsieur de Moras, and they began ascending slowly the sinuous road.
— from Led Astray and The SphinxTwo Novellas In One Volume by Octave Feuillet - The sinuous course of the frozen river was almost black under the slaty sky of March.
— from Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Tugs puffed out to meet us, pilots climbed aboard, and we slowly steamed up the long sinuous channel, past Edgecombe to Davenport.
— from On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George Gallie Nasmith - Below this are two clusters each of six hanging bells; two sinuous snakes, heads upwards, are crawling up the stem.
— from Antique Works of Art from BeninCollected by Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers - As he moved here and there, there was a sinuous grace, panther-like, as if he strode on soft pads.
— from Caste by William Alexander Fraser - "I have come to see you," began the lady with a peculiar sinuous smile, "as a public man and a patriot."
— from Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works by John Galsworthy - The direction of growth in canes, whether sinuous, straight or zigzag, is an important character.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick - Reciprocal actions of rectilinear or sinuous currents parallel or inclined.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
