She came in, like a ship in full sail, an imposing creature, tall and stout, with an ample bust and an obesity girthed in alarmingly by straight-fronted corsets.
Tall and extremely stout, she would have been of imposing presence if the great good-nature of her face had not made it impossible for her to express anything but kindliness.
I should so have made him a more imposing figure.
The subject was grateful, and the industrious Weitbrecht-Rotholz in his imposing monograph[2] has been able to give a remarkable list of authorities.
Crossing the hall, they passed down one of the principal tunnels, and the wavering light of the lantern gave glimpses on either side of rooms both large and small, some mere cupboards, others nearly as broad and imposing as Toad's dining-hall.
" The imposing effect of this last argument was equal to his wishes.
She might have succeeded in imposing propriety and changing the conversation if it had not been for Lady Caroline.
They were buried in the one grave and their funeral was most imposing, Diana.
He reminded them of the imposing secret, and raised a ray of cheer.
They made an imposing adventure of it, saying, "Hist!
True, the knife would not cut anything, but it was a "sure-enough" Barlow, and there was inconceivable grandeur in that—though where the Western boys ever got the idea that such a weapon could possibly be counterfeited to its injury is an imposing mystery and will always remain so, perhaps.
"To play a man who's begun to lose his mental faculties, Hopkins methodically strips away every quality we've come to expect from him – the refinement, the silver tongue, the imposing intensity – until there's nothing left but frailty and distress," writes AA Dowd in AV Club.
It turned to be melancholy and imposing, reflecting the hardship she bore.
For thus imposing his own ideas of literature on the traditional exami-nation system, he was physically attacked by disgruntled candidates.
The index grades nations based on variables including life expectancy while imposing penalties on risks such as tobacco use and obesity.
,,,"", The United States and China are locked in a battle over trade, with Trump complaining about the trade gap between the two countries and accusing China of stealing intellectual property and imposing policies that make it more difficult for U.
China-US trade tensions are intensifying, and the US threatens to ratchet up the pressure by imposing $200 billion tariffs on Chinese imports.
Carrying through on imposing more tariffs, as President Trump has threatened to do, could derail the summit plans as well.
A word may be a fine sounding word, of an unusual length, and very imposing from its learning and novelty, and yet in the connection in which it is introduced may be quite pointless and irrelevant.
This disruption in trade flows has not led to a negotiated outcome yet, hence the US is planning to up the ante again by imposing 25% tariffs on another $200 billion in imported goods from China starting in September.