"compact figure" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's physical appearance or body shape, indicating that they have a small or slender build. Example: The model had a compact figure, with toned arms and a tiny waist, which made her perfect for the designer's form-fitting dresses.
Figueres cuts a compact figure, businesslike and direct, though with moments of fire.
He cut through the shadows, a compact figure waving his sweat-drenched arms and grinning in an epiphany.
The comparison here is with Cagney — another compact figure, more ebullient, but equally fond of hopping from one genre to another.
Yet off screen he cuts a surprisingly small, compact figure, still quite boyish despite the well-cut jacket, ill-cut beard and resonant voice with its Rat Pack locutions and finger-popping rhythms.
Mr. Djangirov, a compact figure presumably aware of this coincidence, does little to discourage any elfish comparisons; quickness and lightness are the chief attractions of his playing, which can seem touched by a kind of furtive magic.
He is a compact figure, with a genial softness in his features and at the edges of his voice, but you sense at once a steely dedication to his trade.
When the flexible free nanoring c -P12 t Bu binds the T6 template to form the compact figure-of-eight complex, there is a decrease in the radius of gyration (Table 1) and an increase in the diffusion coefficient (see Figure S3), which are characteristics of a folding event.
The membrane has been shrunk and the nucleus has been rounded and compacted (Figure 2b).
Flanked by McGerr, bassist Nick Harmer, and touring members Zac Rae and Dave Depper, frontman and lyricist Ben Gibbard is a compact, curt figure on stage, taking up no more space than he needs to, and keeping the between-song banter to a minimum.
She was in her late thirties then, and no doubt she was very attractive, though I couldn't see it — compact good figure, thick hair in a short bouffant cut, definite features like strokes of charcoal in a drawing.
Played by Fayez Kazak in "Richard III: An Arab Tragedy," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, this rising political star in a 21st-century Persian Gulf state is a compact, handsome figure who wears his crisp officer's uniform with no visible trace of the physical deformity he is said to have.
