He stood tall, had jet-black hair, and was lean and athletic.

Ryo stands at 5 ' 9 ", with spikey hair, light brown eyes, and a lean, athletic physique: a result of years of martial arts training under the wisdom of his father, a veteran martial arts master.

A mesomorph body type is characterized as being lean, muscular and athletic.

The overall silhouette of the 1890s was long, lean, and athletic.

As a lean, athletic and explosive point guard, he functioned as the playmaker distributing the ball, but also did more shooting and scoring than most others who had this position.

They are lean, athletic, and have long upcurving horns.

Specifically, the researchers found that participants who were prompted with the idea that pale was more socially attractive along with mortality reminders, tended to lean towards decisions that resulted in more protective measures from the sun.

Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.

She had a dried-out quality -- a gray, lean woman, not unattractive.

In that, they surpass our women, but on the other hand, they are not their equals in grace and kindness … Myself, as a painter I prefer the Italian woman, but I lean toward the French woman when it comes to emotion.

By this doctrine, man had been converted into the warrior, and clothed with sternness, and those other kindred qualities, which in common estimation belong to his character as a man ; whilst woman has been taught to lean upon an arm of flesh, to sit as a doll arrayed in " gold, and pearls, and costly array ," to be admired for her personal charms, and caressed and humored like a spoiled child, or converted into a mere drudge to suit the convenience of her lord and master.

Yet we who lean upon such a man and draw strength from him and expect interpretation of the infinite through him -- we who readily accept his sacrifice as our due, we of the congregations are the first to tell him what is in our minds instead of listening to what is in his soul.

and a Jesus who, though lean, was strong even in death a look he remembered well from his experience in the dead room of Santo Spirito.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

The lean and leathery Oklahoma amateur, who has been playing topnotch tournament golf for many years, refused to let the Masters jitters overtake him and closed the tournament with his second straight 69.

In contrast to Francia, who was lean, López was obese ( a " great tidal wave of human flesh ", according to one who knew him ).

He therefore decelerated in the lean, and, as McKenley came quickly, at the tape no one was certain who won.

Therefore, since Starkweather's home was always within city Limits, and since Lincoln's home and place of business, his saw mill, which was built along the Rouge River, were always outside the city limits of Plymouth, William, who brought his entire family with him and built a lean to at the Panera site as the first home, was the first settler within city limits.

In lean times, farmers might obtain goods on credit from suppliers in local market towns who would be paid when times were better.

As a lifelong genuine fan he is hugely popular with fellow Stokies who respect his unwavering support for the club through many a lean year.

It closes with verses linking Miguel de Cervantes, who fought in the battle, with the " lean and foolish knight " he would later immortalize in Don Quixote.

In the first months of 1981, President Kekkonen began to regret Koivisto's appointment as Prime Minister and to lean towards the side of those who wanted to get rid of him.

In a closed system, from the time a candidate qualifies to the day of the primary, he must cater to strong partisans, who tend to lean to the extreme ends of the ideological spectrum.

When it was all suggested they lean to the left, Veronica quipped that her dad hated anyone who leaned to the left.

They lean on the ancient Greek traditions of Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, who described an exaggerated negative character image of Khufu, ignoring the paradoxical ( because positive ) traditions the Egyptians themselves had always taught. Close-up of the dream stele

Individuals with DPD are passive individuals who lean on others to guide their lives.

After nearly 20 years of service to the club, Ross Caven won a Championship medal and there was also success for the hard-working Danny Ferry who had been with Queen's through the lean spells of the 90s.

"... You know, Bob, in my lean years — I called them The Hungry Years — it was Bob Rogers and Australia who welcomed me.

Since lean body mass is metabolically active vs. fat cells which need very few calories to be sustained, these formula tend to be more accurate, especially with athletes who have above average lean mass and little body fat.

Studies investigating the impact of posture on interpersonal relationships suggest that mirror-image congruent postures, where one person ’ s left side is parallel to the other person ’ s right side, leads to favorable perception of communicators and positive speech ; a person who displays a forward lean or decreases a backward lean also signifies positive sentiment during communication.

Brian joined Uerdingen, in order to play in a club with relative little pressure, and also looked to lean on fellow Dane Jan Bartram who was already at the club.

The only bonafide major league prospect on the team during this lean period was Larry Sheets, who was mainly a journeyman hitter during his career.

After returning to Titans Tower, Cyborg began reviewing the security tapes during the last year, in which it appears that he was looked to by all the Titans of the past year for a shoulder to lean on, despite being in a coma-like state.

Celestian often appears as a tall, lean man of middle years, wearing black garments set with his symbol, often worked in jewels ( diamond, amethyst, sapphire, emerald, topaz, jacinth and ruby ) that shine like distant suns.

The aqueduct appears to have been destroyed by an earthquake, as the remaining arches lean bodily on one side, without being much broken.

In the Western world, they are not as popular as the chicken, because chickens have much more white lean meat and are easier to keep confined, making the total price much lower for chicken meat, whereas duck is comparatively expensive and, while popular in the haute cuisine, appears less frequently in mass market food industry and restaurants in the lower price range.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

Fashionable young men of the upper classes would affect a walk with their right hand held fast to the base of their spines, and with a slight lean forward at the waist and a very slight twist toward the right with the left shoulder, allowing the left hand to swing free with the gait.

Trees serve as beds to them ; they lean themselves against them, and thus reclining only slightly, they take their rest ; when the huntsmen have discovered from the footsteps of these animals whither they are accustomed to betake themselves, they either undermine all the trees at the roots, or cut into them so far that the upper part of the trees may appear to be left standing.

Specifically, McVeigh arranged the barrels in the shape of a backwards J ; he later said that for pure destructive power, he would have put the barrels on the side of the cargo bay closest to the Murrah Building ; however, such an unevenly distributed load might have broken an axle, flipped the truck over, or at least caused it to lean to one side, which could have drawn attention.

They can be simply stakes in the ground with a ring at the top to hold the arrows, or more elaborate designs that hold the arrows within reach without the archer having to lean down to draw.

When traveling through the turns at racing speed, which may exceed 85 km / h ( about 52 mph ), the banking attempts to match the natural lean of a bicycle moving through that curve.

The wavefronts initially are vertical, but the Earth's greater refractive index causes the wavefronts to " lean over " at a progressively greater angle in the direction of propagation as they travel, until they are dissipated.

It is activated at high rpm to extend the engine's rev range, capitalizing on a two-stroke's tendency to rev higher momentarily when the mixture is lean.

With seven metres to go Wells began an extreme lean which allowed his head and shoulder to cross the finish line before Leonard's chest in a photo finish ; both men were given a final time of 10. 25 s. Wells became the oldest Olympic 100 m champion at that time.

As he did with Duke Ellington, Willie " the Lion " Smith helped Basie out during the lean times by arranging gigs at " house-rent parties ," introducing him to other top musicians, and teaching him some piano technique.

By the 80 m mark, Remigino held that big lead: however, in his excitement at sight of the advancing tape, he pitched forward in a virtual lean.

He had a lean season in 1987 – 88, after which he spent the English summer with Greenmount, helping them to win their first Bolton League title by scoring more than 1, 300 runs at an average of 70.

The building features a number of bricked curves and circular windows while the wrought iron banisters on the stairs are deliberately set to lean out at an angle.

In 2005, Sloan's work at GM came under criticism for creating a complicated accounting system that prevents the implementation of lean manufacturing methods.

There is another type of octane rating, called Motor Octane Number ( MON ), or the aviation lean octane rating, which is a better measure of how the fuel behaves when under load, as it is determined at 900 rpm engine speed, instead of the 600 rpm for RON.

Gower attended prep school at Marlborough House School in Hawkhurst from the age of 8 to 13, where he started to lean towards cricket as his preferred sport.

In fact his preference for lean textures and his habitual rhythmic vehemence are at the furthest possible remove from Schoenberg's hyperromanticism.

Unionists tend to lean towards preserving the grammar schools as they are, with academic selection at the age of 11, whereas republican politicians lean towards scrapping the Eleven Plus, despite vehement protestations from the majority of Catholic Grammar Schools, most notably by the board of governors at Rathmore Grammar School in Finaghy, ( a south Belfast suburb ) and Lumen Christi ( although co-educational ) in Londonderry.