Carolyn Porco

The Huygens images were everything our images from orbit were not. Instead of hazy, sinuous features that we could only guess were streams and drainage channels, here was incontrovertible evidence that at some point in Titan's history - and perhaps even now - there were flowing liquid hydrocarbons on the surface.

American Scientist

Thomas Becket

With shame be it spoken: by her fall, the Church's liberties have been sacrificed for the sake of temporal advantages. The road to her ruin lay through the sinuous paths of riches: she has been prostituted in the streets to princes; she has conceived iniquity and will bring forth oppression to the undeserving.

English Clergyman

John Berger

In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.

English Artist

Caroline Polachek

I just started studying opera - very, very much as hobby - and for some reason I've been gravitating toward French composers, like a lot of Debussy and Faure. I find it a really sinuous and spooky language to sing in.

American Musician

Use 'sinuous' to describe things that create a vivid mental image of twists and turns.

Visual Imagery

'Sinuous' can also describe abstract concepts that are complex and not straightforward.

Not Always Literal

'Sinuous' is often used to describe paths or objects in nature, emphasizing their organic shapes.

Natural Context

'Sinuous' describes movements that are elegant and flowing, often in the context of dance or gymnastics.

Elegance

Use 'sinuous' to express movement that seems effortless, as if gliding without resistance.

Ease of Movement

'Sinuous' movements need control and precision, often used to appreciate skillful physical coordination.

Precision Required

 And what you see is bright and dark regions, and that's about as far as it got for us. It was so we couldn't make out what we were seeing on Titan. When you look closer at this region, you start to see things like sinuous channels -- we didn't know. You see a few round things. This, we later found out, is, in fact, a crater,

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 They're long and slithery, and they're not very colorful. But they do have a strange beauty of their own. Their sinuous, nocturnal movements through the water are mesmerizing to watch. And though they may resemble underwater snakes,

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 illusion of popping up from nowhere but they have an even better trick it's a game that plays with numbers they band together and conjure up a huge sinuous

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