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

Delighted with all his surroundings, he let his faunlike spirits have full play, and his keen, brown face and green-gold eyes flashed apparently simultaneously from every corner of the room.

From The Nest Builder by Hale, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson