balletic

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Sam Peckinpah's famously bloody, balletic, slo-mo 1969 Western has more to do with the Vietnam era than frontier days-probably not a bad reason for screening it now.

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  • And after he made a balletic, full-extension catch that won the Super Bowl, the voters showed their own courage by naming him the MVP: Roethlisberger was the hero, but Holmes had the best game. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Robert Rodriguez, say-whose balletic orgies of violence go no further than skin deep. —  artforum.com
  • There was certainly nothing conventionally "balletic" about Margot's display of anguish, the kind of raw, visceral emotion said to have defined Sarah Bernhardt's portrayal of Marguerite. —  The Sheila Variations
  • Apr. 10 -- Mark Jackson has quickly made his name as one of the most provocative stage auteurs in the Bay Area with his balletic approach to movement. —  California Chronicle
  • Like Sienna's Palio paralleled with a glorious and balletic fight on ropes in a disused art gallery, Forster intercuts the tension and finality of Tosca with BOND unearthing Quantum's big plan via gift-bag earpieces. —  CommanderBond.net
 

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