D'Antoni looked haggard during Friday night's 128-117 loss to Golden State, his head drooping and his arms crossed tightly.
"We kind of went back, took a step backwards today," said Tyson Chandler, his head drooping and his speech a low murmur.
A powerful but characteristically gentle dog, the mastiff has a broad head, drooping ears, a broad, short muzzle, and a short, coarse coat.
But in many other performances, Murray has been as sprightly as in his youth, with no grimacing, back tugging or head drooping.
Several witnesses testified that the lawyer, Joe Cannon, now dead, slept at the 1984 trial, his head drooping and sometimes resting on the table.
He let her take the bus alone, with nothing but her feathered hair to protect her; her head drooping like a dead flower; a white glove on her right hand like Michael Jackson, the pinkie stuffed with cotton.
But whenever John Paul was wheeled into view, his left hand trembling uncontrollably and his head drooping far to one side, another rare aspect of his reign came into stark and sometimes unsettling relief.
After Game 7 of the Western Conference finals against the Lakers last June, Webber, the $122 million man, showed up on the podium with eyes brimming and head drooping after he ditched the last-shot responsibilities on Mike Bibby.
Once I was travelling back to Brighton opposite a cartoonist from this paper who fell asleep as I was talking to him, his head drooping to one side, as if he had suddenly been hit by a stroke.
Here was no beast, no warper of souls or glutton for companies; here was an oldster, tortoise-slow on the uptake, with head drooping, shoulders slumped, rousing himself now and then to make a point by slapping the table before him.
Turning to Vergil's episode, we find one of the poem's most famous similes: as Euryalus is slain, the poet compares him to a purple flower, cut down by the plow, and to a poppy, its head drooping with the weight of rain.
