"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Yet white America, too, if sometimes with misgivings, is plainly drawn to this forceful and cogent figure.
- His father, Sam, in fact, emerges as the most forceful figure in this rich, full-bodied novel.
- He was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short in physical stature, but a forceful and dominant figure in politics.
- But Mr. Lauder has been a forceful behind-the-scenes figure at the Modern since 1977, when he was first elected to its board.
- Next to that big, healthy, forceful figure, who "rules the world," young Franz sees himself as "tiny, an insect."
- Englishmen turned in disgust from the slow, complex, civilised methods of their national politics to this uncompromising, forceful figure.
- There was also the issue of Mr. Bushnell, a forceful, frequently abrasive figure who made as many enemies as friends for the theater.
- He climbed from the car and strode across the street, a tall, forceful figure.
- As forceful and dominant a figure as was Brigham Young, when it came to marriage he was as vulnerable as the next man.
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