lissom

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The house style is proudly melodic and lissom techno, but it has a sideline in transcendent ambient and also invented the glam rock-inflected "schaffel" sound.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2013

Opponents realise this only after he has passed them … lissom and beautifully balanced, he glides like a silent wraith through gaps nobody else has spotted.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2013

"I hope you are not on the cover tomorrow," the lissom Russian smiled to a table of fellow competitors as she left a Daegu cafe near the athletes' village on Wednesday.

From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2011

But a number of Kim’s gold-medal predecessors were present Thursday, and all seemed thoroughly impressed that Kim had been so poised and lissom in her presentation and vaulting in her jumps.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2010

They were descending the broad stairs of the lower flight together, and Armathwaite had stolen one glance at the lissom young figure.

From The House 'Round the Corner by Tracy, Louis