He thought she had a big mouth, as in "physically taking up a lot of her face".
The photographs accompanying Me Too stories afford women control over their narratives while allowing them to physically take up space, unfettered.
Inviting the family to physically take up different positions and then speak from these, she was able to facilitate insight into how another person may be thinking and feeling and in so doing to enable the individuals (and family) to see other, shifting and fluid, positions.
Men tend to physically take up more space when they want to display themselves as powerful and attractive, so if he's sitting with his legs spread apart or standing with his shoulders squared, it may be a sign that he subconsciously wants to impress you.
But running for President is an exhausting pursuit, mentally and physically, that takes up at least a year, only to be followed, for the winner, by four more years of unrelenting stress.
By the way, as Merrick improves mentally, if not physically, he takes up building models of churches (religion, again), and eventually completes a small-scale replica of St. Phillip's Church.
She takes herself somewhere quiet, lies down and zones out, "because The GC takes up a lot of space, physically and mentally".
What really takes up your time and energy is physically sorting out the deceased's possessions, going through all their paperwork and selling their property.
Clutter takes up a lot of space both physically and mentally.
Bohman flew out to Rojava in February, as soon as she was physically able, and took up arms with the Kurds to fight ISIS.
