Jacob Trip, industrialist, appears as a wizened but hawkish potentate in his 80s; not a spent force so much as a figure of terrific authority, given stature by his pose, but also by the intense massing of paint in the shrewd face.
Nothing jars or obtrudes into the emotional flow of the narrative, and large-scale sets with plenty of vertical height give stature to a tale that could easily get too domestic in Glyndebourne's small theatre.
Sometimes al-Khalili, like a lawyer who suspects a jury of unyielding skepticism, strains to give stature to the leading lights of Arabic science in the Middle Ages.
The nurse's face is a huge mask, and Kahlo's work acts like a mask for many women: her work both disguises them and gives stature to their experience.
In plays, pageants, dance, music, film, literature, and the visual arts, they aimed to give stature and solidity to the American black community through a new awareness of the African past and the international black world.
Orwell, Priestley and Waugh gave stature to popular reading.
The idea was simple: Mr. Grassley's name would give stature to the proposal for more moderate Republicans.
I want to give stature to American string music and its history, culture, creativity, the social aspects and the power of its being a vehicle for political change.
Here the musical that gave stature and identity to the anonymous dancers, called gypsies, has its own connection to the show's creation.
Although Linda is at peace with the plainness of her existence, it takes an actress with the talent to convey nobility through sacrifice in order to give stature to the character.
