Woman, by modern standards started looking like "Christmas trees" as the fashion of the time was really large brooding figures.

Sprewell is seen as an ominous and brooding figure until he shows otherwise.

But there was no one visible, no brooding figure on the afterdeck.

A shapeless, brooding figure, from which can emerge pain, death, life or joy.

The brooding figure on film bears little resemblance to the man I knew in the White House.

And the taciturn, brooding figure of legend never stopped talking.

As Pooley fell he saw before him standing in the gloom of the night garden a massive, brooding figure.

But he saw her crouching, brooding figure, and it seemed to tear him in two.

The great brooding figure of Thomas Hardy is an extreme example.

He stood with his arms folded, his head slightly bent, a somber and brooding figure.