Sentences with phrase «more spindly»

Joe was more slight than Tony and bow - legged, more spindly.

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Well, it turns out that there's more to the furry little monster than spindly arms and complaints of being hugged too tight.

A group of naturalists, botanists and ecologists known as the Torreya Guardians has begun to transplant a spindly pine from the Florida panhandle — where Torreya taxifolia has dwindled as a result of disease and, potentially, climate change — to receptive arborists in more northerly climes.

WAFFLE - nosed and spindly legged, often weighing well over 400 kilograms and munching its way through more than 30 kg of food every day, the moose is a splendid beast.

When they do materialize, late in the second act, they're not much more than static - inducing shadows with large almond - shaped eyes and spindly arms.

We spoke no more of it until the following evening at six, when a spindly Japanese man in a threadbare suit entered the restaurant with his wife and four children in tow.

Another untitled work from the same period containing more lyrical, spindly forms owes a debt to the Abstract Expressionist pioneer Arshile Gorky.

Made of raw felt, in primary and secondary colors plus black - and - white, they're proudly whimsical, but with their spindly limbs and bumps, they're also more than a little discomfiting.

Without anything of physical interest, the «burden of proof», so to speak, falls on the spindly concept of depicting something three - dimensional in two - dimensions, and how tough that is; this, of course, being a question which is raised and resolved a dozen times or more in the course of an art history textbook, and one which is not added to or made more interesting by Shepherd's half - involvement of computers.

Readily available furniture legs tend to be spindly — these dressers needed sturdier & more hefty legs.