There's much about her that doesn't seem to jive with how we imagine opera singers to be: instead of the
swoopy, sing-song laugh that gives away many opera singers, Braid cackles like she's up to no good; her love of Formula One racing makes her a minority among her colleagues--in fact, British racing driver Jensen Button is one of only two people around whom Braid "couldn't actually function." (The other: Gustavo Dudamel.)
Not everyone is excited for the
swoopy lights, but at least it is a step forward from General Motors' traditionally conservative approach.
When at last Hannah became vertical, her painstaking bathroom ritual began, suggesting that she harbored a special concern about what the chuckwallas might think of the
swoopy thing she was doing with her hair.
A
swoopy, four-door concept sedan, Le Fil Rouge -- "the red wire" in English -- previews what Hyundai calls its "Sensuous Sportiness" design language.
The injection-molded buttstock and fire-end have
swoopy, modern lines, with overmolded grip panels for a firm hold in bad weather.
Its predecessor, the gul- winged SLS AMG drew heavily on the company's motorsport heritage for design inspiration whereas the AMG GT took direct aim at the Porsche 911 not only with its market posi- tioning but also the
swoopy rear and horizontal taillights.
It's not
swoopy or, God forbid, Hollywood Regency, which is totally vomitous to me.
It's as if Mercedes' designers saw this car coming and decided to give their usually boxy estate a similar bit of
swoopy style.
Those smooth,
swoopy lines are not stifled by the shortened dimensions, indeed it manages to appear even better balanced and co-ordinated than its big brother, the CX-5.
The hugely influential Jewish graphic designer Alvin Lustig (1915-1955), a member of the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, creator of style-y book covers and designer of
swoopy upholstered office chairs, designed a font in the 1930s called "Euclid.
THE GT86 formula is simply classic: a snarly, high-revving four-cylinder engine in the nose, rear-wheel-drive, 2+2 seating, a
swoopy body, a stubby gearlever and a cosy cabin with low-slung sports seats.
Redesigned for its third generation, the five-seat Murano now features a tall hood, V-shaped grille design, light-emitting diode headlamps and tail lights and eye-catching,
swoopy lines along the sides.