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  • adverb In a balletic way.

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Examples

  • On the podium his feet are as rooted to the ground as Nelsons's are balletically airborne.

    CBSO, Stephen Hough/Nelsons; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Nott – review 2012

  • Patrick Swayze, the balletically athletic actor who rose to stardom in the films “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost” and whose 20-month battle with advanced pancreatic cancer drew wide attention, died Monday.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Patrick Swayze, Star of ���Dirty Dancing,' Dies at 57 2009

  • As the chanteuse unravels the slang, a dancer in gangster dress moves balletically in silhouette behind her.

    Jules Dassin's Film Noir Triumph 2008

  • Wolfe's cast brings a buoyant freshness to the play: Preston's innocent, tomboyish Miranda; Ellis's balletically beautiful Ariel, Bougere's feral poignancy.

    Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On 2008

  • UPDATE: Tait Cueto trailed his toe just onto the whitewash before balletically, beautifully lifting his boot.

    Rugby World Cup: Just Ten Minutes to Go, 15-6 Down 2007

  • UPDATE: Tait Cueto trailed his toe just onto the whitewash before balletically, beautifully lifting his boot.

    Archive 2007-10-14 2007

  • As if he could sense my tension, the driver hammered down on the wheel and the taxi shimmied across two lanes of speeding traffic before easing balletically and near-suicidally into the left lane, neatly cutting off an eighteen-wheeler.

    Miss Misery Andy Greenwald 2006

  • As if he could sense my tension, the driver hammered down on the wheel and the taxi shimmied across two lanes of speeding traffic before easing balletically and near-suicidally into the left lane, neatly cutting off an eighteen-wheeler.

    Miss Misery Andy Greenwald 2006

  • I thought of how adroitly, almost balletically, he had controlled that disintegrating machine, until there was nothing left of it but ballistics and velocity, the inevitable collapse of order into chaos.

    Spin 2005

  • Wisps of steam spiralled balletically in the broken shards of sunlight, Tam watching their graceful dance for a suspended moment while somewhere in his head he knew he was about to switch on again, stretch mind and body against the rack of their predicament.

    Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997

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