Like Wood and Prior, he was a big, strong right-hander with an imposing build, intimidating stuff and a flinty mound demeanor that the scouts salute as country hardball.
What first greets your eye is an imposing steel shelf stuffed with firewood to help keep the enormous new Wood Stone oven — where Mr. Colicchio says he will be found working most nights — smoking at 650 degrees.
Seaver was amazed by Isringhausen's size, power and stuff, commenting that imposing pitchers like those two were so rare when he pitched.
From the outside it is particularly imposing, its processional architecture the stuff of eternal forms; inside, the library wrapped inside the great central rotunda is breathtaking and very beautiful indeed.
Then the lights dimmed, the D. J. cued Patti Smith on the turntable, and a parade of models appeared in slashed jeans, flat shoes and mannish jackets, clothes that were hip and sexy tough, vulnerable and imposing, just the sort of stuff one might expect a fashionable young lesbian to wear.
Even if he does say stuff like, "Yes, we are imposing a new contract," in Parliament, there's not a shred of evidence that he's imposing a new contract.
It included security mandates but it did not say, 'We're going to invest more in law enforcement, or create a central exchange where you can see where threats are coming from.' It just said, 'We're going to impose a bunch of stuff on you.' And then, 'Actually, we're going to make that voluntary.' It lost its teeth.
This makes no sense scientifically or behaviorally, but it does politically, positioning alcohol for the same prohibitions imposed on the other stuff.
But it's a sign of the times that the imposing face of the global capital-hyped metropolis is now starting to strut its stuff in widescreen.
It has a newly-reelected president, who may or may not have won by stuffing ballot boxes, and a hornet's nest of insurgents, intent on imposing a Flintstone society of beards, burqas and banishment of all outsiders.
The first thing you notice is the pile of 30 or 40 stuffed basset hounds that makes a floppy-eared puppy shelter out of his imposing wooden desk.
