(1) There is no better symbol of London’s macho financialisation than the early 21st-century surge in skyscraper construction, the lanky delinquent mob of new towers that cluster around the City, and their gangmaster, the Shard.
(2) At 6ft 3in tall, the lanky Peck was a pillar of moral rectitude standing up for decency and tolerance.
(3) Despite such brooding work, in person Stephens is lanky, jovially sweary, with a disconcerting habit of speaking in elegant sentences, and bookends our interview with heartfelt tributes to his wife and three children.
(4) Read more Now, off tubes and machines, he lies quietly in a bed which barely fits his lanky frame.
(5) A lanky man in a striped shirt is called from the crowd and accused of participating in a patrol which killed several Tutsis.
(6) The lanky O'Neill, who had been a friend to many of the YBAs, launched himself into Rome almost five years ahead of the legendary Larry Gagosian , who has a gallery at Via Francesco Crispi 16.
(7) He was an awkward, lanky figure who wore skinny jeans and eyeliner.
(8) In other Harry Redknapp-losing-the-run-of-himself-news, the Spurs manager has been unsuccessful in his efforts to sign Villarreal striker Giuseppe Rossi for £30m and his Atlético Madrid equivalent Fernando Llorente (£33m) , and is now turning his gaze towards lanky Bayern Munich frontman Mario Gómez .
(9) The Welsh held out against fierce pressure, with the lanky Hopkins facing Garrincha's dynamic pace and a magical swerve.
(10) A little trivial, of course, but then Wood gets described as lanky and balding, though apparently "gentler in person than he is on the page" (did the interviewer expect him to stand at the door with an axe?
(11) "Yeah, it's been a big day," grinned a lanky software engineer.
(12) There was a change in the shape of the skeleton from the squatty appearance of the short population to the more lanky shape of the tall population.
(13) Auerbach was captain of the American football team, a jock, albeit a long-haired, stoner jock with a penchant for bluesman Junior Kimbrough; Carney, by contrast, was a lanky nerd who'd geek out over Television, the Stooges and the Stones.
(14) As well as lessons in the minutiae of international banking and glimpses of Premier League power play, the jury of eight men and four women has been treated to tales of a lanky but "still growing" striker named Peter Crouch ; a young tech entrepreneur called Steve Jobs ; and a News of the World reporter who was threatened with the unusual penalty of having his bollocks sued off .
(15) He's only little, and the CEO of Airbus, Thomas Enders, is tall with a kind of lanky strength.
(16) He was a shambolic figure, lanky, almost perpetually stooped from a bad back and, in an age of volatility in Scottish politics, he was forever an advocate of moderation and caution.
(17) Jack is lanky, friendly and restless; Jade shorter, puckish, with a ponytail.
(18) Dressed in jeans, hoodies and trainers; they slouched in their seats, lanky legs stretching halfway across the carriage, joking around, rolling an empty water bottle between their feet.
(19) Jürgen Klopp: Christian Benteke has a long-term future at Liverpool Read more Milanese cinema-goers will be swallowing nervously at the prospect of Marouane Fellaini taking the seat in front of them now it has emerged Milan have decided they need a lanky, big-haired Belgian to run around the San Siro bumping into opposition players and starting arguments.
(20) Yet although his own style of performance – lively but dignified, informal but literal, paying no heed to the devices of showbiz stagecraft – may have been rendered obsolete by the discoveries of those who owed him a great deal, nevertheless everyone knew the lanky, unstylish figure and what he stood for, and that was more than enough.
Lofty
Definition:
(superl.) Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
(superl.) Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.
Example Sentences:
(1) An Israeli commentator said of the first of them: "when one looks through all the lofty phraseology, all the deliberate disinformation, the hundreds of pettifogging sections, sub-sections, appendices and protocols, one clearly recognises that the Israeli victory was absolute and Palestine defeat abject."
(2) They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people”.
(3) "The BBC's bosses dropped the lofty Oxbridge langour that had been their trademark to set off in hot pursuit of our children," he said.
(4) Progressive politicians should be very careful not to be lofty and metropolitan about this, it's a totally understandable reflex."
(5) David Zaslav, chief executive of the US cable giant, kept his cards close to his chest on the Channel 5 sale process, where Discovery is considered to be a frontrunner among buyers offering much less than Desmond's lofty £700m-plus target.
(6) In Albini’s view, these plans may prove lofty but misdirected.
(7) His church is looked down upon by a lofty bronze of Jefferson Davis, last president of the confederacy, white supremacist and owner of 100 slaves.
(8) Podemos' lofty list of election promises includes doing away with tax havens, establishing a guaranteed minimum income and lowering the retirement age to 60.
(9) According to Shannon Loftis, general manager of Microsoft Studios, the idea of producing one game disc that will service a range of platform capabilities is familiar to dev teams.
(10) By his own lofty standards Cavendish's return of two stage wins from this year's Tour has been paltry and myriad signs of hitherto unseen fallibility, a team that is clearly not good enough to work in his service and suggestions that his star is on the wane will leave him with much to ponder.
(11) It is the most homespun of arrangements for a team with such lofty ambitions, but somehow it will be a fitting send-off in a city that has embraced the idea from the start, with Major Buddy Dyer being one of their most fervent supporters, and some 20,000 showing up for the championship game against Charlotte last September .
(12) Caruso St John, which previously renovated London's Tate Britain and the Gagosian Paris, plans to convert the old theatre production warehouses into a series of lofty rooms.
(13) The game’s been inspired by head-cam footage of drivers and athletes uploaded to YouTube and offers the rather lofty promise of allowing players to “go anywhere and make any experience that they want”.
(14) To me this is … ” Once again Johnson feels the need to apologise for something lofty he is about to say.
(15) In a world where public figures are lofty and removed from ordinary people, she looks accessible, approachable and touchable.
(16) In fact, wet deposition has long been hailed as a possible solution by higher powers, with their lofty pretensions to control the elements.
(17) But beyond these very lofty ideals, a staff nurse managed financial management committee can make the nurse manager's life much easier.
(18) Many social events leave me with a crick in the neck from gazing up at the ceiling to talk to lofty friends.
(19) However, geopolitical, socioeconomical, and medical factors contributed to an increased TB incidence altering this lofty hope.
(20) Many of its institutions entered the new millennium accused of social elitism and lofty irrelevance.