"his contour" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the shape of a person or object. For example: "The contour of the mountains created a striking silhouette against the bright orange sunset."
His contours are like the borders of wetness left by waves on a beach.
"Hey, what's going on?" he says, before settling into a sofa that looks custom-moulded to his contours.
Veronese's shadings are variants of the hues they inflect, and his contours aren't so much boundaries of form as sinuous frontiers where paint changes color.
He's been this way before, you see, always appearing when called, slightly changing his contours to suit the situation and take the blame.
His facial contours, expressions and hairdo were designed to be sharp, intended to suggest the "assassin" side of his character, as well as imply the image of Chinese culture in the character.
Dark areas of the XRF map for iron (Fe) indicate where one might expect to find Prussian blue in the portrait, such as the sitter's jacket (his right arm and left shoulder), the bold outlines of the cushion behind his head, the contours of his hair, and fine lines defining his hand, bow tie, and facial features.
Filmmakers have rewarded him with a rich range of roles, all of which he's fit to his unconventional contours.
Throughout, Schneider's writing is as entertaining and sharp-edged as his almost contour-style line drawings, painted in transparent but deep hues of yellows, purples and blues.
But Cranach readily adapted his crisply contoured, infectious art to charismatic portraits of the Reformer and Katharina, as well of the local ruler, Frederick the Wise, who shielded Luther from the wrath of Leo and Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor.
This singular player, whose dramatic eminence, like that of Charles Laughton, was as unmistakable as his physical contours, was happy to be pitched into a standoff, or into a busy ensemble.
