Sentence examples for boyish figure from inspiring English sources

An ill-at-ease, boyish figure, Stevens is a teller of tales in song and conversation.

Her tall, boyish figure, with no breasts and no hips, was not at all the Victorian standard of beauty".

It can even provide a feminine look for a woman with zero body fat and a boyish figure.

Standing before this "stage" is New Mexico's governor, Gary Johnson, a lithe, boyish figure in a checked blazer and clashing patterned tie.

And then we were invited to question Simon himself (a "small, vulnerable-looking and boyish" figure, as I noted at the time) about the project.

Her boyish figure and natural athleticism led to a starring role as an Olympic track-team hopeful in Robert Towne's "Personal Best".

A generation later, there was a backlash against this womanly silhouette and a move towards more boyish figures.

Women with boyish figures could turn into lesbians, they screamed, even as they sold advertising space for diet products.

The sweet sensuality of the small-screen angels was a matter of halter tops and slender brown arms; lithe, boyish figures and dazzling white smiles; and a ready if not always Marivaux-level repartee.

The other works in his Santa Monica studio that day, another sculpture and a dozen good-size paintings now at L.A. Louver, are also lessons in isolation — sparse landscapes and astringent snowscapes, boyish figures that seem lost against the wide horizon, and animals holding their own, sometimes with no humans in sight.

There's a reason why most runway models have boyish figures, including those in Israel in which too-thin models are banned.