"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Aflaq was described by his associates as an "ascetic, shy and intense figure living a simple and unpretensious life."
- Perry Rhodan's almost ascetic figure leaned against the navigation console and he appeared to feel at ease in this position.
- A tall, almost ascetic, figure rose from the table in the paneled, velvet-framed corner of the room.
- Although austere by nature, Yoritomo was not, and had no wish to become, an ascetic saint-like figure.
- St. Ephraim is portrayed in iconography as a slim, ascetic figure with black hair and beard, clad in the black robes of a monk.
- Icons of the 13th-15th centuries from Novgorod depict Paraskeva as an ascetic figure wearing the red of martyrdom.
- Almost at once he turned a corridor and found himself before the bearded, ascetic figure of Philip the Second.
- General Babangida has tried to project an image of himself as an incorruptible leader, an almost ascetic figure whose only concern is for Nigeria's well-being.
- Taoism also has a long history of ascetic and eremetical figures.
- The serious, ascetic figure, the King of the Curia.
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