Lucy Worsley

To wear stays forces you into the elegant, balletic posture of a Georgian minuet-dancer. As with the tight-lacing, there is still great debate about whether stay-wearing, which began in adolescence, actually changed the shape of the skeleton, or was just a cosmetic, temporary, alteration.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I like the collarbone, a very clean collarbone. I think there's something also very delicate and balletic about that part of a woman's body, and I'm not really a cleavage person, but I do like a back or a shoulder; I think there's something very alluring about backless dresses.

English Actress

Matthew Bourne

Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.

English Dancer

Richard Corliss

Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision.

American Writer

Nathan Chen

When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through.

American Athlete

Michelle Ryan

I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.

Nick Frost

The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.

English Actor

Use 'balletic' to evoke images of ballet's fluidity and grace.

Visual Imagery

'Balletic' can describe anything that mirrors ballet's elegance.

Beyond Dance

Use 'balletic' metaphorically to highlight graceful qualities in non-dance contexts.

Figurative Usage

'Balletic' emphasizes meticulous precision in actions or movements.

Precision Highlight

'Balletic' can bring cultural refinement or sophistication to an action.

Cultural Enhanced

 Rough and tumble play. These lionesses, seen from a distance, looked like they were fighting. But if you look closely, they're kind of like the polar bear and no claws, flat fur, soft eyes, open mouth with no fangs, balletic movements, curvilinear movements -- all specific to play.

Stuart Brown: Play is...

 but fall slowly under the influence of gravity. Some of them stay aloft due to upward convection from the sun-heated ground, but most are in a state of slow, balletic descent. "Clouds are the patron goddesses of idle fellows,"