It was personality made specific in sound, and the music had a lissomeness and fluidity that jazz has mostly lost.

If anything is missing, it's lissomeness, the sort of seductive ease projected by the past Spanish master Alfredo Kraus or the young Luciano Pavarotti.

The waist line, rather high but clearly defined--a precursor of the later more accentuated fashion--gave grace to her long slender limbs, and emphasised the lissomeness of her figure.

And as she moved - to do the most ordinary things: take a leg of mutton out of the oven, sprinkle flour to thicken the gravy, strain the Brussels sprouts - he was very much aware of her lissomeness.

Add to this the enchanting lissomeness and beauty of all such movements as she was mistress of, and a stage personality (as we call it) which was like no one else's, and there is more than justification for the glow which the remembrance of her performances kindles."