Sentence examples for Portly figure from inspiring English sources

The video is a peculiar affair: a portly figure, heavily bearded, inspects his Islamist fighters in the northern Malian desert.

Obscured by the portly figure of Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch has long been an elusive enigma at the heart of American cybernetics.

"I reflect the party," he said, noting that since January he has lost 130 pounds from his famously portly figure.

It's sometimes easy to forget that the portly figure who warmed the Bolton Wanderers bench in 2003 and 2004 was once the most lethal striker on the planet.

In such circumstances, it was impossible to ignore the portly figure in a brown three-piece suit, complete with tie and highly polished shoes.

Mr Marambio, dubbed in Cuba "the potbelly" because of his portly figure, became a multimillionaire.That apparently did not offend Mr Castro.

Almost slyly, the magazine found an old photo of a young President Megawati with her husband, Taufik Kiemas, both looking very slim compared with their portly figures now.

For once, the sale at Sotheby's (May 28) is not led by a Botero composition of portly figures; instead, one of Matta's "Morphologie Pyschologique" paintings — Surrealist canvases covered in layers of biomorphic shapes — leads the way.

A portly, bespectacled figure sporting a plum-coloured tie, Cayne swigged from a plastic bottle of water while answering questions.

The choir behind him sings traditional Baptist hymns, and he, strong-jawed and portly of figure, wearing a thick three-piece black suit, looks every inch the Baptist preacher of the pre-television era.

Picture the Ghost of Christmas Present in Dickens's A Christmas Carol – that portly, guffawing figure, seated on a heap of turkeys, strings of sausages and crackers – and you have a fair idea of my new editor, Godfrey Smith.