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hunch-shouldered

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  • That peril, like the action flowing from it, is intense—a hold-up gone bad; car chases through the streets of Los Angeles; car combat that involves some spectacular driving in reverse; car characterization that puts the way-cool hero into an unassuming Chevy Impala with 300 horses hidden under the hood or, later, a spirited, stolen Mustang, and the bad guys into a massive, hunch-shouldered Chrysler 300 sedan.

    'Drive': A Rolls of an Action Film Noir Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • But the hunch-shouldered man they call Lefty displayed a titanium gut Sunday to take his third green jacket in a wild, rollicking Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga.

    Phil Lifts Masters Out of the Woods Jason Gay 2010

  • The residents who came and went from the building were mostly old, leathery, hunch-shouldered seniors shuffling to the taxi stand at the corner or pushing wheeled shopping carts down the block.

    A Hidden Affair Pam Jenoff 2010

  • Pender took a sudden interest in the landscape, the golden, rolling hills, the dusty green live oaks, a turkey vulture wheeling in the sky, a glowering, hunch-shouldered hawk perched atop a telephone pole.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • Pender took a sudden interest in the landscape, the golden, rolling hills, the dusty green live oaks, a turkey vulture wheeling in the sky, a glowering, hunch-shouldered hawk perched atop a telephone pole.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • Pender took a sudden interest in the landscape, the golden, rolling hills, the dusty green live oaks, a turkey vulture wheeling in the sky, a glowering, hunch-shouldered hawk perched atop a telephone pole.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • The residents who came and went from the building were mostly old, leathery, hunch-shouldered seniors shuffling to the taxi stand at the corner or pushing wheeled shopping carts down the block.

    A Hidden Affair Pam Jenoff 2010

  • Pender took a sudden interest in the landscape, the golden, rolling hills, the dusty green live oaks, a turkey vulture wheeling in the sky, a glowering, hunch-shouldered hawk perched atop a telephone pole.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • Filch evidently thought Professor McGonagall had taken leave of her senses, but hobbled away, hunch-shouldered, muttering under his breath.

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

  • But overnight, he'd turned hunch-shouldered and sullen, like a husk that used to contain the whole of him.

    Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007

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