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Next up: “Crime 101,” an ’80s-style crime drama that seeks to recapture the sexy sinuousness and focused intelligence of the work of Michael Mann.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Her music shivers and glimmers but never lacks forcefulness; lush and often ominous, veiled in dark mystery, her pieces evolve with the muscular sinuousness of snakes.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023

The jeweler’s earliest snake-inspired pieces tended toward abstraction, referencing ophidian sinuousness by way of a corrugated gold bracelet — based on the articulated flex of gas piping — that slithered up the wrist.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2022

And Tyrone Power acts him with forthright but misguided vigor: what the part needs is sinuousness and style.

From Time Magazine Archive

His tail moved with a soft ominous sinuousness as he looked.

From The Necromancers by Benson, Robert Hugh