Western art has frequently stumbled over the contradiction between the ascetic figure of Jesus of Nazareth and the iconography of Christ inspired by the heroic, Hellenistic ideal: Christ as beautiful, tall and broad-shouldered, God's wide receiver; blue-eyed, fair-haired, a straight aquiline nose, Christ as European prince. ❋ Unknown (2011)
We are the broad-shouldered hog butchers of the world. ❋ Rep. Mike Quigley (2010)
In silhouette, visage concealed by darkness, his assailant loomed above him, broad-shouldered and a head taller. ❋ David R. George III (2011)
He was just over six feet tall and broad-shouldered with thick brown hair that hung down his back in a wavy ponytail. ❋ L. A. Banks (2011)
One was broad-shouldered with a near-ebony complexion. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)
Timothy Haskell, off-Broadway director turned haunted house creator, is a tall, broad-shouldered guy, with a frenetic, charming energy as he gestures enthusiastically. ❋ Lila Shapiro (2010)
It probably does feel safer to Harris, a tall, broad-shouldered white man, than to someone in a wheelchair, or someone carrying an easily grabbable purse, or a single woman walking alone. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Too swiftly for my mind to grasp, it resolves into the shape of a man—tall, broad-shouldered, cloaked. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)
They were a royal pair of wanderlusters, he, big and broad-shouldered, she a small, brunette, and happy woman, whose one hundred and fifteen pounds were all grit and endurance, and withal, pleasing to look upon. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The other man was pallid, and was decidedly not broad-shouldered. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)
Before that, the tall and broad-shouldered Mr. Scholl, who turns 44 in November, had considered other careers. ❋ David Mermelstein (2011)
I know they'll make her really skinny, but it would be nice if she could be tall and broad-shouldered. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In 1863 one of Otto von Bismarck's colleagues described the 47-year-old Prussian minister-president's appearance and aura: full red-blond mustache, thinning hair, a "tall broad-shouldered figure, mighty and impressive," but with "a certain casualness in stance, movement and speech that had something provocative about it." ❋ Geoffrey Wawro (2011)
As I was next up to the cone-scooping sodajerk, the broad-shouldered man ahead of me spun in place with his prize in-hand and there was only that ice cream cone in the eighteen inches between my astonished eyes and Walter Cronkite's face. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The man who entered was a big, broad-shouldered Swede, though his nationality was not discernible until he had removed his ear-flapped cap and thawed away the ice which had formed on beard and moustache and which served to mask his face. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Looking presidential can be broadly translated to mean being around 6 feet tall, relatively slim and broad-shouldered, and having a full head of preferably pepper-and-salt-colored hair and a ready, winning smile. ❋ Andrew Roberts (2011)
I had to help my [crippled] [aunt] and drunk [grandma] back to the car. Not my idea of broad shoulders.... ❋ AAAAALLLLLVVVIIIINNNN (2008)
[Max]: Wow! [Bella] has really [broad shoulders]! ❋ Hamiltonsoundtracklover (2019)
