“The surreal corpulence of the boy is a distraction, and when we watch him steal the only pieces of meat from his uncomprehending blind stepsister's rice bowl we are reminded not of Chaplin but of Fellini.”

“The supposed villains here are fast-food restaurants and food companies that have supersized us to corpulence.”

“Glasgow and Edinburgh have emerged as the UK's twin capitals of corpulence in a national guide to unhealthy living.”

“Due to his excessive eating habits and lack of physical activity, his corpulentness became more and more evident as he gained weight.”

“The powdered seeds have been considered a cure for goitre and efficacious in reducing excessive corpulency.”

“In person he is below the ordinary standard, somewhat disposed to corpulency, and rather clumsy in his form.”

“There is nothing new about the Mahdah method of destroying corpulency.”