| Still, she had a vigour and erectness about her, and I was glad to see that a smile of welcome and interest began to play about her face. |
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| Since Darwin's day, paleoanthropologists have energetically sought the key to hominid erectness in many different places. |
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| Hosfield transferred the genes for erectness, canning quality, and virus resistance into red bean germplasm. |
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| Concomitantly, most favored female bodies with rounded chests that were attributable, in part, to an erectness of figure that also was considered essential to female beauty. |
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| In addition, human beings display a marked erectness of body carriage that frees the hands for use as manipulative members. |
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| A default erectness gave meaning to bending and slumping and a hunched-over box step. |
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| She was dark-haired and dark-eyed, unrebelliously dressed, and was sitting with a Free German Youth erectness of posture, a textbook open in her lap. |
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| Symptoms usually began with retarded growth, erectness of new growth, chlorosis and purpling of leaves, followed by an overall chlorosis and production of many small, poor-quality fruits. |
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| And everything in Moroni's fine and subtle brushwork – from the almost-sneer of the mouth to the dapper, head-in-air erectness of the figure – is borne out by the motto inscribed on the wall beside the duke. |
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| The second trend involved shortening the trunk, relocating the shoulder blades, and, most important, steadily increasing the emphasis on hind-limb support and truncal erectness. |
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| Even then, of course, Cunningham was frail – a tiny creature curled up in a wheelchair but still with that sense of erectness and poise that makes dancers unmistakeable. |
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