"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Rodgers's bushy-browed aristocratic look, along with his stature as a composer, helped to foster a public image of him as a forbidding Olympian figure for whom composing music and doing business were synonymous.
- In 1989, in preparation for the 1992 Winter Olympics, Jean-Marie Pierret painted a fresco of the Olympian figure Hercules on the dam's face.
- In public, and especially in confirmation hearings, the Justices try to portray themselves as Olympian figures, removed from the hurly burly of politics.
- Forensic investigators measuring the bones buried in the great man's grave would be hard put to match them up with Klinger's Olympian figure, bent forward with fists clenched.
- Olivier is the Olympian figure of British acting this century, but Americans always change covers.
- Nevertheless, it took a bit of fortitude on Susan's part to get up the nerve to approach this Olympian figure.
- Whereas Sports Illustrated tends to bristle with a kind of pomposity - the sportswriter as an Olympian figure - ESPN.com is disarmingly, and most often delightfully, casual.
- They spoke of her father, and for the first time Ryeland was able to think of that semi-legendary Olympian figure as a human being.
- I don't believe in the idea of the historian as a disembodied, Olympian figure above time, above place, dispassionate.
- The pictures bring guilty pleasure as they cast Olympian figures in the most stark and human light.
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