burliness

And gone is his burliness, the old arrogance, the flamboyant air.

But there is a wistful fragility beneath his burliness.

His stockiness becomes burliness, and were he to speak, his voice would rumble.

The sleeveless tunic emphasizes his burliness and the bronzed nature of his skin.

Thinner and more finely etched than she looks on screen, Kavner moves with a kind of burliness suggested by her voice.

Burliness, honesty, naturalness and integrity - these are the qualities American men's wear designers celebrated in their fall showings last week.

She looked like a porcelain miniature following half a pace behind Buntaro, his burliness seeming even greater by comparison.

He was a big-limbed, deliberate man, whose quiet burliness lent to an ample silk-faced frock-coat a superfine dignity.

Mr. Leno's Irish-Italian heritage may be responsible for the seemingly contradictory elements of his presence: burliness and gentleness.

They looked at him; they secretly trembled at his burliness and his mustaches and his air of the Berserker.

Despite the boasts about the Stanley's being "contractor grade" in promotional material, Brother sells a virtually identical model outside the United States without any claims for its burliness.

When he arrived in London from Lichfield, Johnson had to use his strapping muscles and burliness: he became a porter in Covent Garden in order to subsist.

The New Mexico superintendent of insurance, Eric P. Serna, said, "He's a big burly guy, so I hope this burliness is good for the plague because he's certainly not an unhealthy guy."

He throws his hammer, that mighty graystone hammer, and he hurls it full at the stocky man in black, who stands upon black marble steps, at that man who would seem slight beside the burliness of the ancient god.

Nicholas Bonner raised the horned owl's perch slightly higher, and the bird hooted again, spreading wings as black and gray as Sia's hair, wings so wide that the round body between seemed smaller than it was, almost fragile next to Micaela's burliness.