"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For example, a bass voice was generally used for an authoritarian or powerfully masculine figure.
- When she looked at him her attention was instantly riveted on the masculine figure who stood so still and intensely silent before her.
- I can't recall a single masculine figure created by a woman who is not, at bottom, a booby.
- They limned her now as a gloating, almost masculine figure, and he could not stand to see her thus.
- The door under the Greek portico opened and a slight masculine figure came out.
- The films were often critical of big business, the American government, and masculine figures (including the military and their policies).
- It was his mouth that startled-full lips, so sensuous they did not seem to fit so masculine a figure.
- A masculine figure in a pristine pink suit sits on a park bench sharing a hot dog with a pigeon.
- In crested helmet and highly polished mail shirt, he cut an impressively masculine figure.
- To the Chinese, nine is the ultimate number, a masculine figure and metaphor for the emperor.
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