"You don't want a scrawny, long-legged bird on your Thanksgiving table," said Mr. Greenberg, seated in his office behind a one-way mirror that faces a call center bullpen where, at the peak of the season, 40 or more operators swivel beneath bright fluorescent lights and peck turkey orders into terminals.
Kazan was not handsome: he had a scrawny body, a long nose, and a craggy face that marked him as foreign.
On either side of the long straight road to La Gloria scrawny horses pull ploughs across flat sandy fields, sending up clouds of dust that mingle with the early morning mist.
Yes, video games have long been a refuge for the scrawny, the unattractive, the socially awkward.
You become certain, as you look at him, that we spent too long with the problems of his scrawny little career.
The customers who reported encounters to the website clearly value the stereotypical features of Western beauty: women they describe as slim but not scrawny, or as having long blonde hair or full breasts, can charge the highest hourly rates.
The customers who reported encounters to the website we analysed clearly value the stereotypical features of Western beauty: women they describe as slim but not scrawny, or as having long blonde hair or full breasts, can charge the highest hourly rates (see chart 3).
He was a lean, almost scrawny youth, dark-haired, his long face usually unsmiling.
Because whatever war it was, Mr. Murach said, however long it lasted, it changed men from scrawny hometown clerks into men who know the fragility of life.
They, like the scrawny rock-climbing guys with long hair I met at the climb gyms, were underdogs.
