Sentence examples for stooping figure from inspiring English sources

Pages later he longs to see an old farmer whose "stooping figure, trudging indomitably..

Pages later he longs to see an old farmer whose "stooping figure, trudging indomitably... had come to seem part of the landscape".

We end on the battlefield at night, with the corpses preyed on by a stooping figure who resembled "those crepuscular figures that haunt ruins".

The lofty, stooping figure heads away from us, with his back to the camera, but he doesn't get any smaller as he goes.

It is a formative outline of where he was coming from – vaguely impressionist streetscapes and an imposing portrait entitled My Landlady and her Husband (1928) – and where he was going – an early image of a stooping figure amid a cluster of circular tables on a street in Florence is the first inkling of the now-familar Cartier-Bresson style of quiet observation.

"Amid stooping figures and grasping hands I caught a glimpse of the haggard, yellow face, the glazed, expressionless eyes, the long, black hair streaked across the bow.

"He's this irascible, grumpy, boozy, stooped figure.

A towering, slightly stooped figure, Dr. Parsonnet is an elegant man with an understated wit and a fondness for collecting antique pacemakers.

He can also be found at the tram stop behind the tribunal, a slender, slightly stooped figure who will politely greet an approaching reporter but never gives interviews.

Now his tall, slightly stooped figure is up on the stage again, this time bent with threatening restraint over bankers, academics and industrialists, quizzing them about the financial crisis.

One night seven years earlier, tongue-tied Gwen had followed a woman she believed to be Woolf across Tavistock Square, a "tall, slightly stooped figure... in a flowing dress the color of dusk".