Word: rotundity
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...Valenzuela from there on in, as the rotund left-hander set the Yankees down with growing ease the last four innings...
...gangling good looks, the Westerner has come to England to explore the roots his forebears pulled up in 1642. He settles in as squire of the ancestral village, Castle Lancing, is accepted at the local pub, marries into the aristocracy, and even becomes a passing pal of the rotund monarch his intimates refer to as "Kingie." Mr. Franklin, as the author calls him, ostensibly dug his huge fortune from a silver mine at Tonopah, Nev. Gradually, though, it emerges that this sober, self-educated man had earlier been a desperado, a gunman allied with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance...
...much for the press conference. Travolta is hustled away by rotund men with electronic devices in their ears. Are they undercover police? Or Travolta fans with hearing problems...
Sokolov must be praised, however, for effectively narrowing his topic. In the end, he has emphasized the biography over the literary analysis, a choice all literary critics and biographers face in their work, and he certainly made the best decision in this case. The rotund Liebling is plenty to chew on without biting off bigger chunks of journalistic history...
...listener. He shouts "I'm not guilty" like an incantation to dispel the ills the world flings at him; his colleagues ponder their response to the supposed inspector-general's arrival with the cacophonous murmur of an elderly Orthodox Jewish congregation praying at different speeds. Richard Grusin's nasal, rotund Director of Welfare Institutions and Eric Elice's contortionist Superintendent of Schools, especially, transform this group into a human array of deformity who physically mirror their own insides...