pliancy

The acrobatic moves of the story’s “savage” and misshapen monster have been choreographed by Pilobolus, the Connecticut-based dance company once described by critic Sarah Kaufman as embodying “extraordinary pliancy.”

Yet throughout there is a constant, distinctive search for a simple, singing sense of expression, for a pliancy of line, for a sophistication and sensitivity that lay in more than technical precision.

But theater artists, filmmakers and novelists, drawn to the interior richness of Chekhov’s dramas, have discovered not only the timeliness of his untimely work but also its aesthetic pliancy and openness.

Robert Plant’s feckless pliancy throughout is hard to square with the exploratory nature of his later work.

Most had learned and honed that mix of pliancy and power from watching a single uber-dedicated golfer, their idol, Tiger Woods.