She gestured to a flower-seller with long, braided hair and the traditional huipil (embroidered blouse) and voluminous skirts of the Juchiteca – but the hands wrapping dripping stems of tuberoses and hibiscus were enormous and hairy, and there was a prominent Adam's apple poking out above the neckline of the blouse.
The biography sensitively uncovers the facts of an unusual life that Fitzgerald was reticent about and reveals the voluminous research she undertook, then used economically in novels that appear simple on the surface but are complex masterpieces.
He began regularly dictating entries into his forbidden phone, and sneaking random paragraphs into voluminous love letters, while Alex did the editing and posting.
The Tories are betting everything on the voluminous evidence that the sound and fury of an election campaign rarely matters, that when voters take a hard look – at the economy and at Ed Miliband – on 7 May, just enough of them will switch, giving the Conservatives those three or four extra percentage points they need.
He prefers it that way, as in his study in a modest bungalow in Luxembourg surrounded by voluminous files detailing the post-cold war history of the EU.
There was an amusing moment when he opened his Coutts bank statement in front of us: "Oh, £10.75 in credit I see… " The books and official papers are obviously much used; he reads the papers and keeps cuttings, so voluminous that they made your correspondent feel better about the mess in his own study.
At an international conference on GNH in Thimphu last February, 60 papers were tabled (available in all their voluminous glory here).
The government's books, open to outside scrutiny to an unprecedented degree, show a big surplus.Rather than blow its voluminous oil revenues on patronage politics, Nigeria is spending $12 billion on buying back some of its official debts in return for a write-off of the rest.
As Mr Helm points out, "there is a voluminous literature of government failure, regulatory capture and the impact of rent-seeking behaviour within the policy process.
In a series of online opinion-surveys and in voluminous press commentary, debate has been surprisingly intense.
His poems were pithy and to the point; short, but often demanding to be reread.This is one reason why the voluminous size of "The Complete Poems" is startling.
