litheness

Federer’s gravity-flouting litheness has always made a striking contrast against his grounded disposition.

Van Zweden has never had a true grasp of the fleet litheness of the Classical repertoire, almost never touches Baroque music with the Philharmonic.

At barre, sculpt society “strengthen lengthen tone” classes, the slimness and litheness of your body is on display, judgeable, as you do tiny movements that won’t leave you all that much stronger.

He has nowhere near the determined agita of, say, Shawn Mendes; nowhere near the vocal litheness of Justin Bieber.

She jumps with the litheness of a cat into Bell’s arms; the breadth of her sculptural, supple upper body, especially in turns in which her arms open wide like blossoms, doesn’t allow for awkward moments or overly embellished theatricality.