Sentence examples for delicate physique from inspiring English sources
"It wasn't a conscious thing where I thought, 'I want to be the weirdo,'" says Morgan, a pretty blonde whose delicate physique and painted nails are countered by a quiet but steely assuredness in her manner.
Jean Paul Gaultier cast the then male model Andrej Pejić, who has since become a woman, as a couture bride several years ago – but on that occasion, Pejić's delicate physique and floor-length bridal train meant that few in the audience realised the model was male.
The more I spoke to the owner – a man of delicate physique who seemed slightly ageless – the more fascinated I became with him.
Kretschmer extended his findings and assertions in a theory that related body build and personality in all people and wrote that slim and delicate physiques are associated with introversion, while those with rounded heavier and shorter bodies tend to be cyclothymic that is, moody but often extroverted and jovial.
The young Wilhelm Busch was a tall child, but with a rather delicate and graceful physique.
Dziepatowski was a timid violin player with "a delicate, perpetually ailing physique". After the Germans and Russians both invaded Poland in 1939, air raids left one third of Warsaw uninhabitable, and Dziepatowski found refuge in a bombed out building.
Her ability to transform herself extends even to her physique: when she's Tara, her head seems delicate, wedge-shaped; when she's Buck, it's a blocky oblong.
Since the New York City Ballet founder George Balanchine prescribed an ideal physique, some not born with a narrow, short torso, long legs and delicate arms have tried to compensate with excessive thinness, using diet pills and diuretics or inducing vomiting to lose weight.
She is not natural casting for the ballerina in "Etudes". Although the role was based on the long, lean and strongboned physique of Toni Lander, in recent years the role has more often fallen to petite, delicate and glittering dancers.
