gracile

• “Rather similar to 'Ingenia', though more gracile, is Conchoraptor gracilis.”

  Archive 2006-02-01

• “The logical outcome would be two sub-species, "gracile" and "robust" humans similar to the Eloi and Morlocks foretold by HG Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine.”

  2006 October - Telic Thoughts

• “The Na'vi are basically ten-foot gracile blue furries, equipped, we are assured, with naturally-occurring carbon-fiber bones so they can do their wire-fu.”

  Movie Review: Avatar

• “The robust form populated the eastern island of Borneo and the gracile the western island of Sumatra.”

  The Guardian: On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman

• “The robust P. pygmaeus, the more gracile and more upright P. abelii and a third, smaller terrestrial species that we today know as the orang pendek.”

  The Guardian: On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman

• “We do not know why this occurred but the more gracile Sumatran form, and the robust Bornean, separated.”

  The Guardian: On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman

• “Slick, almost metallic surfaces; contrived elegance; serpentine lines and gracile bodies; cool but vibrant emotions - all the trademarks of Italian mannerism, on view in Gossart before it appears in Italian art.”

  The Washington Post: Gopnik's Daily Pic: Gossart (again) and mannerism

• “But these next-gen sentients won't wander in from Africa, as the gracile Cro-Magnons did: They'll roll through the doors of artificial intelligence labs.”

  The Huffington Post: Seth Shostak: Today Jeopardy, Tomorrow the World

• “It's clear now that this lineage of theropods reaches back at least to the Late Jurassic, and that the smaller, more gracile predecessors of Tyrannosaurus lived alongside such classically Jurassic theropods as Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus.”

  "When the world is a monster..."

• “He records the actor's admirably diligent work on himself, eradicating the accent so strong that Millicent Martin at first took it to be Polish, reading Proust, Ibsen, Stanislavsky's My Life in Art. In a piece of careful research, Bray demonstrates the influence on Connery of the great acting teacher, Yat Malmgren, who focused the Scotsman's natural physical freedom into the gracile ease and expressiveness so characteristic of his Bond.”

  The Guardian: Sean Connery by Christopher Bray

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