He lacks the weight and stature to hold down a locker room like the Knicks'.
Beginning in the 1960s, for example, Lincoln's stature was knocked down a few notches; he had equivocated about some issues for which he is now most admired.
In the background, a rushing waterfall imparts some of its strength and wonder to the character, but Douglas soon moves to a higher angle that eliminates the waterfall from the image, and actually seems to diminish Ringo's stature by looking down on him, hemmed in by a cluster of trees.
Isn't it just as appalling that an individual with so much in life - riches, family, celebrity and stature can look down upon an individual with a disability willing to share?
But when Little Ricky went tumbling down, the stature issue came bubbling up.
And claims for its superiority and moral stature have been beaten down by the memories of how artistic mastery cohabited with evil in regimes like the Nazis'.
Pluralism means dialling down the moral stature that we attach to universalist arguments, and dialling up the moral stature of particularism.
And there's maître chef Michel Bourdin, looking slightly awkward and out of place up here in his toque and cook's trousers, but visibly growing in stature as he leads me down from the faded grandeur of the lobby into the gleaming, modern kitchens that are his undisputed domain.
Williams' death of an apparent suicide at age 63 sent shock waves through the entertainment industry, not least because he remained a highly active performer at an age when many of his stature have begun to slow down.
