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That is not to mention hang gliding and parasailing, both kitelike activities.

In turn they swooped at the head, banking with kitelike flares of their bodies.

He pointed to the kitelike creatures flapping endlessly by.

These luminous, kitelike objects are suspended in midair by lengths of string.

He was now looking at four ink marks on the map, arranged in somewhat of an awkward, kitelike diamond.

A flock of them suddenly spread kitelike wings and took to the air, spreading across the crater in uncounted millions.

From this yoke sprouted the wing, forming a roughly triangular shape, kitelike.

Blackness wasn't coming from the sky; it was lower, almost at The Shadow's shoulder, lunging in what seemed a massive kitelike shape.

"Some are kitelike.

They are freestanding, cocoonlike, kitelike, colorful, unearthly, stretched like modern dance costumes into postures more than structures.

These strictly formal approaches are literally torn to shreds in Teruyoshi Yoshida's five large kitelike forms.

Except for their bare gray palms and long, flat, almost rigid, kitelike tails, their bodies were covered in thick fur whose oils repelled water.

Glorious, kitelike Stymphalian Birds (by Federico Restrepo), menace the audience with huge red wings and fleshy claws.

There was a little kitelike attachment at the end to steady it, and there was a freewheeling propeller mounted above the fuselage to drive the generator that powered the wireless set.

Indeed, the closest thing to it may be the opening number of the second act, in which Ms. Taymor, setting actors loose in the aisles whipping kitelike birds around the auditorium on long wands, turns the theater into a faux-aviary.

The vista from atop the poinciana was timeless and serene-a long string of egrets crossing the distant 'glades; a squadron of white pelicans circling a nearby bay; a pair of ospreys hovering kitelike above a tidal creek.

And once in a while, an especially strong gust of wind will lift up the roof of a stall in so taut a way that you hold your breath for fear the whole thing will take off and soar, kitelike, forever up and away into the sky.

To me the production was so packed with nonstop stage effects, so overly busy and so peopled with dancers, extras, gargantuan puppets and kitelike animals of every sort that the fine musical performances by the conductor James Levine and cast took a back seat to the stage show.

Haoyou, the 12-year-old son of a poor sailor, excited at being allowed on the wharf for the first time, watches in horror as his father is chosen to reveal the omens for his upcoming voyage by "testing the wind," strapped onto a huge kitelike contraption released into a gust of air.