Both Uses of
lithe
in
Just Listen
- Before she'd looked lithe, elegant; now, she was gaunt, and her head seemed too big for her body, weighing down her neck.†
Chpt 3lithe = graceful and flexible (moving and bending with ease)
- I remembered how we'd followed the photographer, a tall, lithe man whose name I forgot, out across the sand to the jetty.
Chpt 4 *lithe = thin with flexibility and grace of movement
Definitions:
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(1)
(lithe) a graceful, flexible body -- often implying thinness
or:
graceful, flexible body movement -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, lithe can mean that something is easily bent or flexed--such as "a thin blade of lithe steel," or "twisted the lithe vines."