faun
noun
one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat.
faunlike
-
a word derived from
faun.
Example Sentences
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His calling card is a soulful fragility, all faunlike bearing and saucer eyes, with a teenager’s unruly mop mane.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2016
In it, a “classical” couple is pitted against a “modern” pair, then they change partners, and the ballerina dances a long fluid pas de deux with the faunlike modern-dance man.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2010
The heart of the work is the pas de deux by the ballerina and the modern dance man, in which his faunlike primitivism is tamed by, but also incorporated into, her fluid expansiveness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2010
But Constable had enough faunlike intelligence and skylark blitheness to make him Britain's classic landscape painter.
From Time Magazine Archive
The youthful runaway ashamedly lowered his head—in reality he adored music with all the fulness of his cruel, faunlike nature.
From Visionaries by James Huneker
