Sentence examples for a vigorous figure from inspiring English sources

"I'm reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it's an effort, and is it worth the effort?" he said.

To the British historian E.H. Carr, the Georgian dictator appears as a ruthless, vigorous figure, but one lacking in originality a comparative nonentity thrust into greatness by the inexorable march of the great revolution that he found himself leading.

In presiding over his manifold activities, Dr. Gallup cut a dynamic and vigorous figure until he was well into his 70's.

He was a speechwriter for Willy Brandt of the Social Democrats in three campaigns, but it was a rare politician who would link himself for so long to such a fulminator.His allies did so because this vigorous figure, in cord trousers and tweed jackets and, under an ever-drooping moustache, an ever-present pipe, was both Germany's Nobel prizewinner and its moral voice.

Nonetheless, Michael Hodgson's Silver has a dangerously seductive charisma which reminds you that Stevenson conceived the character as a vigorous, attractive figure.

While his brother was alive, Rajiv largely stayed out of politics; but, after Sanjay, a vigorous political figure, died in an airplane crash on June 23 , 1980 Indira Gandhi, then prime minister, drafted Rajiv into a political career.

To immediately address the question of Mr. Cranston's own authority: yes, onstage he cuts a vigorous, imposing figure as L.B.J., employing a drawl as wide as the Rio Grande as the new president backslaps and backstabs his way through the rough waters of a Washington that, in its deep divisions, bears a depressing resemblance to our own.

In his early years as director of type development at the Linotype typesetting company, where he stayed from 1959 until 1981, he walked around, a vigorous, booming figure, with his catalogue of the Plantin fonts under his arm each specimen photographed with the light shining obliquely off the faces of the letters.