"Hell," he said of the miss and looked at the trim young man near him, who watched the shot without emotion.

A trim little man in a white jacket bustled out through the curtain.

"This is not about theory" she said, looking at the trim man sitting beside her.

He was a tall trim man with a smallish head.

He was a small, trim man who'd just turned sixty.

He was a trim man with a mustache and a deep widow's peak.

He was a trim athletic man in a faded baseball cap.

Unable to make out whether the trim young man was someone they ought to know, they looked away.

Holland was 53 years old, a short, trim man with almost white hair.

A trim young man with a face like carved bronze.