faunlike

When he was younger, his face was almost faunlike - the eyes wary, trapped.

The rather faunlike face creased into a mischievious grin.

Silhouetted against the sunlight, his leering face watching them, was the faunlike figure who had already crept up behind him once that day.

The elf-maiden said nothing, but only sighed deep in her throat and held him more firmly to her faunlike body.

The faunlike face creased into lines of surprise, the fawnish eyes widened in astonishment.

His biographer Andrew Turnbull described him as faunlike.

Overlook the repeated descriptions of the heroine's lover, with his "tall, broad figure" and his "much-too-clever, faunlike face."

Mr. Morrow has an impressive fluency in his movement imagery and he knows the impact of surprise - as in this little drama between faunlike creatures.

There was a sensational new Puck in Daniel Ulbricht, whose extra-high spring and faunlike glee offered a fresh interpretation.

One can sigh and yearn for Mr. Cunningham and Barbara Lloyd in that first faunlike cuddly duet with half-closed fists as paws.

The young Truman Capote floats faunlike around a house strewn with kicky oddities that "somehow remind you of the contents of a very astute little boy's pockets."

The grappling duet, set to waves of music by the live ensemble (Ron Allen, Jesse Cook, Gordon Phillips) suggests a more conclusive faunlike afternoon than usual.

There are several explanations for that, ranging from the at least initially unflattering (he's older and bulkier than he once was, curtailing his capacity for faunlike leaps) to the biographical.

Lost in a maze of dusty streets, he followed Quilter across the fences and gardens, sometimes losing sight of the faunlike figure as it leapt through the drifting smoke of the refuse fires.

Finally, there is the faunlike novice, Florence Viala, dressed in a delicate white gown as she tries on a mask with a skull for a part in Feydeau's "Occupe-toi d'Amelie."

A Dance Inspired by AIDS Mr. Horvath, a faunlike, mercurial dancer, joined American Ballet Theater in 1967, appearing in a variety of classical and contemporary roles.

But he had been small and wiry, his face thin, almost drawn, and burned black by the sun, the hair black, too, and the ears very pointed so that he had an almost faunlike quality.

And there's Mr. Holstad's contribution to consider: a photo-collage of a faunlike nude boy - the imp of perversity, surely - peering out from behind a sofa in a White House reception room.

The devil has horns but in this case he is called Satyr, and his arches and wiggles are part of the show-stealing faunlike cavorting that James Sewell turns into a major performance in a minor work.

Ms. Coleman, faunlike and mysterious, served as quiet catalyst, as well as the composer, with Mr. Stone, Ms. Sheely and the Temptations, of the eight odd little songs on the program.

Faunlike in flat angular silhouettes and sporting either Mohawk hair crests or piled-up hair, the dancers hark back to the mythic beasts and orgiastic rites that Ms. Chouinard has brought to New York for nearly 25 years.

The evening opened with Bradon McDonald's "Quotes and Fauna," a pastoral romp through the first movement of Stravinsky's Symphony in C for a faunlike creature (Mr. McDonald) and four female faunettes dressed in saucy, stylish costumes by Katherine L. McDowell.

Danced to excerpts from Ravel's "Mother Goose" Suite, "White Sleep" was a fairy tale whose narrative was intriguingly mysterious, featuring a wandering woman, a spindle that pricks her hand and stains one of her white gloves, five faunlike creatures who find and adopt her and a heavy fall of snow.