Calligraphy and the arabesque a continuous leaflike design dominate Islamic art, yet there are many figurative works here as well.

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That such a legal arabesque would work may be a mark of what a challenge cloud computing will be in Europe.

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Nor does it have to be showy: I once saw a New York City Ballet audience burst into applause when a ballerina lifted her leg into a flawless arabesque.

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It has taught me not only to hold an arabesque but to maintain an inner grace -- drawing on a psychological or spiritual core, a place of honesty and strength.

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We recognize specific individuals, including Woodruff himself, among the abolitionist supporters of the Africans, but larger pictorial issues slashing diagonals, arabesque rhythms, carefully orchestrated groupings, spatial shifts knit the three enormous paintings together and subsume the narrative.

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The Noor collection, unveiled for the event held during the first week of June, is a line of art-deco style jewels inspired by the sensual transparency of vintage lace, the play of light through its delicate pattern, and the intricate ornamentation of the mosaic and arabesque patterns in Byzantine architecture.

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