In presiding over his manifold activities, Dr. Gallup cut a dynamic and vigorous figure until he was well into his 70's.
"I'm reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it's an effort, and is it worth the effort?" he said.
Under the headline last month of "Obama vs. the Clenched Fists," Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, called that vigorous figure of speech "the dominant foreign-policy metaphor" of the new administration.
To the British historian E.H. Carr, the Georgian dictator appears as a ruthless, vigorous figure, but one lacking in originality a comparative nonentity thrust into greatness by the inexorable march of the great revolution that he found himself leading.
He was a speechwriter for Willy Brandt of the Social Democrats in three campaigns, but it was a rare politician who would link himself for so long to such a fulminator.His allies did so because this vigorous figure, in cord trousers and tweed jackets and, under an ever-drooping moustache, an ever-present pipe, was both Germany's Nobel prizewinner and its moral voice.
Next, as Mr. Ueno described it, comes "Kishi's own style of hard shake," a series of short, vigorous figure-eight movements.
Nonetheless, Michael Hodgson's Silver has a dangerously seductive charisma which reminds you that Stevenson conceived the character as a vigorous, attractive figure.
While his brother was alive, Rajiv largely stayed out of politics; but, after Sanjay, a vigorous political figure, died in an airplane crash on June 23 , 1980 Indira Gandhi, then prime minister, drafted Rajiv into a political career.
In his early years as director of type development at the Linotype typesetting company, where he stayed from 1959 until 1981, he walked around, a vigorous, booming figure, with his catalogue of the Plantin fonts under his arm each specimen photographed with the light shining obliquely off the faces of the letters.
To immediately address the question of Mr. Cranston's own authority: yes, onstage he cuts a vigorous, imposing figure as L.B.J., employing a drawl as wide as the Rio Grande as the new president backslaps and backstabs his way through the rough waters of a Washington that, in its deep divisions, bears a depressing resemblance to our own.
Without nocodazole the cells attached to the glass within one hour while in the presence of nocodazole they failed to attach for more than two hours and underwent vigorous contractions (Figure 1 and Movie S3).
