| Though no one would mistake that for a human face, it was actually imposing in a leonine way. |
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| Robert Graves, leonine, ascended grandly and delivered hilarious impromptu remarks before declaiming a poem. |
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| The patient has also found himself returning to Al Green and the leonine roar of Buju Banton. |
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| Arthur grinned as he envisaged a leonine Uncle Louis growling at Alicia's suitor, then pouncing on him and chasing him out of the house. |
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| The leonine head has a grimacing, tooth-filled mouth from which issue stems with pellet decoration ending in foliage scrolls. |
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| As the leonine family rejoiced in their reunion, Reid looked down at the drawings on the floor. |
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| His leonine beard and the red shirt became symbols of valour, integrity, and independence. |
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| The home team are known as the Lions, but as the first half died, there had been nothing leonine about their performance. |
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| Like the Sphinx of antiquity, I left him standing there staring at my mysterious, leonine face. |
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| Yet one disruptive crew-member was met at the dock by a wife of leonine stature and all his bravado shrank. |
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| Cian lounged casually in the plush dark green chair, his leonine eyes rarely leaving the silent girl that sat opposite him. |
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| His drawings of mature male warrior types of leonine or dragon-like ferocity are a wonderful case in point. |
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| In this strange attire he performs a stunning solo full of autumnal pride, leonine prowling and swan-like grace. |
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| Does that mean he's supposed to be more edgy than his smiling, soft leonine friend? |
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| As the tour comes to an end we go by the leonine guarded gate of the city's great Arsenal, Europe 's first and largest shipyard. |
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| A conceivable relative, she is fabulous and mythical in her own right, even if her head is not an eagle's but a sexy gamine's, and her body coltish rather than leonine. |
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| It spreads very often to the skin of the face, where it causes thickening and corrugation of the skin and a typical leonine appearance. |
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| The other boss is bearded, or leonine, with a protruding tongue. |
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| The others followed more slowly, with Jack lingering for a last look at the leonine face so far below, until Micki prodded him in the back to speed him up. |
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| Both the horse and the hawk are unruly, the latter swirling its head around instead of waiting in obedient stillness, and the dogs have curiously rounded leonine heads. |
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| Such rhymes were already referred to as rime leonine in the anonymous 12th-century romance Guillaume d'Angleterre. |
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| Darín's careworn, faintly leonine face conveys both his professional exhaustion, only slightly diminished for his notionally younger, darker-haired self in the 1974 scenes, and the agony of swallowed, unconfessed love. |
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| Salinas, with her strong features and dramatic dark eyes, is leonine. |
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| It was decorated with polychrome terracotta architectural gutters and drainage in leonine head, was found a part of the pediment of the temple there had to insist that, with the pedestals and some tiles of the roof. |
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| At its core is the old Progressive Party, whose leonine survivor, Helen Suzman, was for years the sole liberal opponent of government in the all-white apartheid-era Parliament. |
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| In appearance the Asian sphinx differed from its Egyptian model most noticeably in the addition of wings to the leonine body, a feature that continued through its subsequent history in Asia and the Greek world. |
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| A later tradition imputes their invention to a 12th-century Parisian canon and Latin poet named Leonius or Leoninus, but leonine may simply refer to their supposed preeminence over other verse forms. |
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| The Leonine revival featured not only the harnessing of Thomas' thought to confront modernism, but as a necessary preparation, the modern editing of his sizeable corpus. |
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| The Capuchins and Conventuals wanted the reunited Observants to be referred to as The Order of Friars Minor of the Leonine Union. |
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| Alas, the Leonine revival was soon distorted by attempts to make Thomas the remedy for Cartesian epistemology, which resulted in Neo-Thomism. |
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