All 6 Uses of
supple
in
All the King's Men
- The posture seemed to accentuate the charms of her person and to suggest to my inflamed senses the suppleness of her members.†
Chpt 4 *suppleness = moving and bending easily
- Then he seized one of her wrists and lifted the arm to shoulder level and worked it back and forth a couple of times to show the supple articulation, saying, "Yeah."†
Chpt 4
- She reached up her hand to me, and I took it and helped her as she rose easy and supple—God, how I hate a woman who scrambles up off things—and I still held her hand as she swayed at the instant of reaching her full height.†
Chpt 5
- She was very close to me, with the laughter still on her face—and echoing somehow deep inside me—and I was holding her hand, as I had held it a long time back, fifteen years back, twenty years back, to help her up to stand swaying for an instant in front of me before I could put my arm around her and feel her waist surrender supplely to the cup of my hand.†
Chpt 5supplely = moving and bending in an easy manner
- When he gestured with those strong, long, supple white hands, it was a mixture of Svengali and an atom-busting machine.†
Chpt 5
- I never saw her again, but I know what she looks like now when cocktails, bonbons, late hours, and nearly forty years have done their work on the peach bloom of cheeks, the pearly, ripe but vigorous bosom, the supple midriff, the brooding, black, velvety-liquid eyes, the bee-stung lips, the luxurious thighs.†
Chpt 7
Definitions:
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(1)
(supple) moving and bending easily -- sometimes used figuratively to indicate mental flexibility when adapting to different conditions
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, supple can be used metaphorically to describe someone who easily adapts to different situations.