shapeliness

The show-tune shapeliness of her melodies is often a sardonic frame for grim sentiments, to be faced with a ballooning bass line and a self-conscious smirk.

What lifts this album above the other is the shapeliness of Springsteen’s tunes, catchier than they’ve been in years, and the vivid images in his lyrics.

She stretches her legs so that we can see their shapeliness in that red skirt, but where is she going?

“What matters to me even more than the shapeliness and the dance of language is what the poem discovers deeper down than gracefulness and pleasures in figures of speech.”

Indeed, a pervasive danciness, a rhythmic shapeliness even in slower moments, is a mark of a good performance.