Sentence examples for physically slight from inspiring English sources

Grimmy – physically slight, gay, self-deprecating – couldn't have represented a cleaner break.

He looks clever, physically slight yet wiry, with exactly the right hunched and passive-aggressive body language when needed.

The humans have casually enslaved the inhabitants, who are peaceful, physically slight, with a subsistence-level material culture.

Physically slight and wiry, Mr. Stern has an impatient energy that pulls focus in a room and makes students and colleagues pay attention.

While Atkinson is physically slight, he retains the clothing and the smoking, as any other decision would be like playing James Bond without wearing a dinner jacket.

A physically slight man, Peña Nieto has been loath to put himself in an environment in which the more imposing Trump could play the bully.

In his physically slightest work, he distracts us with grids of paper towels, stained and splashed with paint: sweet, sophisticated nothings of considerable pictorial power.

When Willy shields his face with his hands, palms outward, during an argument with his son Biff Kevin Andersonn), the effect is devastating in a way it wouldn't be with a physically slighter actor.

In consequence Mahler was alienated from his father and had a strong mother fixation, which even manifested itself physically: a slight limp was unconsciously adopted in imitation of his mother's lameness.

Ms. Wilson, a very sweet Stella if arguably physically too slight for the part, really does look as if she could be sisters with Ms. Weisz, and there's not much possibility that anyone, much less Blanche, could take on Elliot Cowan's muscle-bound Stanley, whom this Stella clearly adores even at his most bestial.

He is also physically the slightest of CSKA's side, which could leave him vulnerable to the pace and power of Gabriel Agbonlahor if he is deployed on the right.