If embonpoint is generally a sign of good-humour and a cheerful disposition, leanness frequently betokens a sour, crabbed, and ill-natured character.
If obesity has been the subject of ungenerous jokes, leanness has not passed unnoticed.
These lines vary under different circumstances; much enbonpoint producing round lines, and leanness or old age producing straight ones.
A French writer indeed says: "Most of our fashionables are extremely slender; they have constituted this an essential to beauty; leanness is in France necessary to the air elegant.
Moreover, the very leanness of the famous official appealed to him.
Encourag'd thus I straight began: "How there can leanness come, Where is no want of nourishment to feed?
They would do leanness and temperance honours to which they had not the least claim.
She alone knew how rigidly and untiringly his asceticism had striven to keep its leanness against that terrible perversity of ease which threatened to engulf him.
You'll never be splendidly weary with battle, nor yet know the leanness of spirit which comes from desire unfulfilled, nor will you grow breathless with the exhilaration of a race against your own luck.
His beautiful style disarmed criticism and concealed the leanness of his output.
There was needed a prophet and a creative soul, and the lack of such a leader at the critical moment accounts in part perhaps for the poeticleanness of the period that was to come.
If it be true that leanness has been sent into the soul of this nation, if we have not walked humbly with God, what can be done?
In these bits of leanness a few birds find grateful homes.
Ségur wrote of Voltaire that his leanness recalled his labours, and that his slight bent body was only a thin, transparent veil, through which one seemed to see his soul and genius.
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leannessrising up in me beareth witness to my face.
A she-wolf Was at his heels, who in her leanness seem'd Full of all wants, and many a land hath made Disconsolate ere now.
She had conquered, and again breathed freely amongst the light oak of her dining-room, where she would have liked to burn some sugar to drive away the odour of perverse leanness which seemed to linger about.
In stature he was above the size of ordinary men, though his excessive leanness might contribute in deceiving as to his height; his countenance was sharp and unbending, and every muscle seemed set in rigid compression.
The principal personage of this party was a man, whose leanness made his really tall stature appear excessive.
The lower the relief, the less could the surface be modelled, and this led to a sharp demarcation of the outline, which exaggerated the peculiar leanness of the Egyptian race to a hard angularity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leanness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
