Sentence examples for physical endowment from inspiring English sources

As a result, the river has a remarkably powerful and even flow, a physical endowment that caused it to become the busiest waterway in Europe.

Dental hygiene, flatpack assembly skills, breakfast choices and more easily quantifiable attributes such as physical endowment: everything is scored in the small books that each man guards jealously.

Lovelace's own appeal had less to do with any extraordinary physical endowment (she was turned down for employment by Xaviera Hollander, the Happy Hooker, because her breasts were too small) than with her aura of girl-next-door availability.

In turning people into laboratory specimens and using genetic theory to try to breed superior strains of people, scientists play God by making value judgments about the most desirable human qualities, usually deemed to be measurable intelligence and physical endowment.

This is partly, of course, the consequence of the unfair advantage of physical endowment: she's tall and athletic-looking, and she has the sort of features that, well, command attention -- especially the eyes, which are huge, deep brown and startlingly alert.

The physical endowment near to the region is simply astounding.

Her big successes in the 1970's were two films starring Chesty Morgan, named for her commanding physical endowments.

And, although his choice of subject is diverse – ranging from George III's madness to Kafka's physical endowments – he comes back time and again to certain themes: the matter of England and the nature of art.

Seabiscuit was loved by Depression-era fans who saw in the knobby-kneed, undersize horse an athlete who overcame a lack of physical endowments (although he was descended from Man o' War) to break speed records nearly everywhere he raced.

If the physical endowments were suspect, Schipa managed to create natural beauty out of the pureness and sensitivity of his aural imagination; his spiritual faculties, in other words, seemed capable of exercising remarkably persuasive powers over the body.

In the first English-language book on the topic, "Terroir: The Role of Geology, Climate and Culture in the Making of French Wines" (University of California Press, 1999), James Wilson, a geologist, offers a detailed look at the physical endowments of France's wine-producing regions.