Lissome

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–adjective 

1. lithesome or lithe, esp. of body; supple; flexible.

2. agile, nimble, or active. 



Also, lissom.





　

Right on! Funny Games is not without a certain artistry. An image of one [captor] idly channel-surfing with his lissome [captive] bound and gagged on a couch beside the large-screen television set has the bored depravity of an Eric Fischl bedroom painting. 



But for all the laughs it pretends to laugh, Haneke's movie is essentially founded on the programmatic denial of catharsis. "I want the spectator to think," he's been quoted as saying—although with regard to Funny Games, his hope seems as touchingly utopian as the notion that an illiterate might teach people to read. 



(In any case, the American audience whom Haneke seeks to address is less apt to see Funny Games as a critique of dominant cinema than an argument for personal handguns.)





svelte supple

lithe

the lithe [body] of a ballerina.

A lithe fashion [model] and a young newspaperman meet on a quiz show.

limber

nimble

The movie has stepped [nimbly] around all sorts of other obligatory scenes.

malleable

Johansson needs mostly to be [open] and [malleable]



fermentation

obtect

pupa

chrysalis

struggling to emerge from the chrysalis of [ugliness]. 

Nubile