slope-shouldered

Shirley was a tall, slope-shouldered man with a broad face divided by an enormous nose, with friendly eyes and the half-smile of a royal courtier.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Shirley was a tall, slope-shouldered man with a broad face divided by an enormous nose, with friendly eyes and the half-smile of a royal courtier.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Shirley was a tall, slope-shouldered man with a broad face divided by an enormous nose, with friendly eyes and the half-smile of a royal courtier.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Shirley was a tall, slope-shouldered man with a broad face divided by an enormous nose, with friendly eyes and the half-smile of a royal courtier.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

But the Chrysler Building is like the Empire State's significant other, a lovely, slope-shouldered lady, not the symbol of the world's greatest city in its own right.

Duking It Out at 1,200 Feet 2010

He was twelve years older than Mays, a muscular man with a slope-shouldered, tapered body and a quiet, dignified aura.

WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

That passage is part of Chast's drawn three-page introduction to the book, titled "One-Year Cartoon," which features -- as New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik once dubbed them -- "Roz Chast's slope-shouldered, high-pantsed, hopelessly post-modern misfits."

'Riffs Best Books of 2010: THE NEW YORKER's Bob Mankoff offers a comic window into the year Michael Cavna 2010

There has always been a slope-shouldered, heavily-sighing wing of the Republican (and the Conservative) Party that deep down believes the left are on the side of history; that the best we can do is fight a rear-guard action to slow the inevitable advance.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

There has always been a slope-shouldered, heavily-sighing wing of the Republican (and the Conservative) Party that deep down believes the left are on the side of history; that the best we can do is fight a rear-guard action to slow the inevitable advance.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

Back then Greg had been a slope-shouldered, pink-faced boy with a sunken chest and wide, almost womanish hips, whose brown hair was starting to recede by senior year.

Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009