But the world's top creative attacker-in-waiting is a much less slight figure these days.
Blackwood, a slight figure, punches a weight that belies his appearance, ferocious on anything short.
The hopes of a nation and a people sit on the slight figure in lane six.
He stood alone, a slight figure, holding a twelve-string guitar in front of the microphones.
Here I met Karim, a slight figure whose impeccable English betrayed his British university education - civil engineering at Birmingham.
Long a powerful figure, Mr. Krajisnik, 55, seemed just a slight figure in the largest courtroom of the tribunal.
Rosewall was a slight figure, ironically nicknamed Muscles, who sported a neat haircut and clean-cut look.
"See that one there, how thin she is, and how carefully she's covered up her face?" He pointed out a slight figure with a pastel handbag.
There was a player dismissed, but it was the slight figure of Lucas Leiva sent off in stoppage time for a second wild tackle.
In the gallery's low light, the red and gold of the portrait looks bleached; the slight figure has the flat face of a paper doll.
