(a.) Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet Greece are pretty ordinary, too, and when they look back at the 52nd-minute goal that handed their opponents the initiative they will kick themselves for some statuesque defending.
(2) An ancestor of Spanish flamenco, it uses lightning-fast spins punctuated by statuesque stillness, fluid arm movements and rhythmically controlled foot-stamping with percussive ankle bells.
(3) The managing director of the IMF may look like one of those statuesque silvery models who appear in Weekend's All Ages fashion pages, but she is one of the world's most powerful women, in the eye of the world's worst storm in living memory.
(4) He appears everywhere with his statuesque wife, Yulia, in stark contrast to Putin, who hid his wife for years before finally announcing their divorce earlier this year.
(5) "She was very, very tall, statuesque and really, really wanted to get married.
(6) Top tip: Every November, just before Thanksgiving, Bosque del Apache hosts the Festival of the Cranes , a five-day event celebrating the return of the statuesque sandhill cranes.
(7) Despite the statuesque Hugo star's late arrival on the scene, Uggie remains the clear frontrunner.
(8) Shaqiri turned up in the middle instead of marauding down the right and beat a statuesque Rob Elliot from a good couple of yards outside the area with a crisp shot the goalkeeper evidently did not see coming.
(9) With Jack Birkett, the bald, blind, statuesque Rambert dancer who became a primary collaborator as The Incredible Orlando, Kemp pursued work in the theatres and dance groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
(10) Hansberry's striking, statuesque features appeared in Vogue, while Show magazine dispatched a list of questions about Shakespeare and published her response alongside those of TS Eliot, Harry S Truman and Igor Stravinsky.
(11) Although she inherited her statuesque build from her father, neither of her parents were athletic.
(12) West Brom had been carved open and Van Persie had the goal at his mercy, yet to the relief of the statuesque Boaz Myhill the drilled low shot passed harmlessly a few inches wide of an upright.
(13) WICKET: New Zealand 96-7 Harris lbw b Zaheer 17 Zaheer pitches one outside the off stump that bites back and raps a statuesque Harris on the pads low, middle and off.