The anxiety is not about the trimness of their figures, but the decorations on the shoulders and neck of the army uniform, when donned by senior officers. |
We seek to fill our empty spaces with objects, titles, and transitory self-images of youth and trimness. |
Breeding selection has emphasized length, trimness, fine muscling, and rapid weight gain. |
It took, indeed, trimness of apparel to make up for the plainness of his face. |
I always thought the best choice to replace him was David Bowie, whose wily trimness was close to the Bond described in the novels. |
But he has done so with a resolute trimness, a disciplined avowal to say the poem only as it says itself, and no more. |