Other nonballet movements — one man landing out of the blue on another man’s neck and staying there (oddly comic), or a man running backward around the stage in decelerating and decreasing circles (an absorbing minimalist effect) — become peculiar strokes of poetry. Mr. Parker gives his most striking moments to his male dancers, not least in unsexual male duets, as when one guy supports another in ballet adagio.

Almighty God, who hast given thine only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin, and also an ensample of godly life:

What kind of crackhead came up with that?

Trop., of a secret conspiracy, Cic. Mur. 37, 78.