Afridi is an entertainer by nature, a robust player touched with magic.
It is modest, robust, humorous – often touching – and filled with accumulated wisdom.
Mr. Webster was vocally robust yet quite touching in songs of Brahms.
The meat is not so finely ground as the Poole's, and I'd say the balance between the flavour of meat and potato is a touch more robust as a result, although it is a fine distinction.
And the new role for Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary looks almost exactly like the old one – except that the white paper has made a mess of the rhetoric ("more robust", but "more light touch").
Palm Pre running Palm webOS is a powerful business device, offering Palm Synergy features, multitasking capabilities, a full sliding keyboard, touch screen, robust messaging, GPS, and compatibility with 3G and secure Wi-Fi networks.
In C. elegans, harsh mechanical touch stimulates robust and extended reverse movement away from the stimulus (Chatzigeorgiou et al. 2010; Li et al. 2011; Way and Chalfie 1989).
Another shows a man with close-cropped hair and a round face; the third shows a man with a green shirt, robust lips and hair touching his collar.
"The recovery is there," he said, "but it's not so robust that we can already touch the brakes.
For all the grimness and desperation on view in "Mango Yellow," the characters emerge as robust, full-dimensional people in touch with their explosive feelings.
