Tall and lean, with a determined gaze and a cocky stride.

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Jim Balsillie, tall and lean, managed the finances.

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Tall and lean and limber.

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He seemed about fifty, a lean, fairly tall fellow wearing triple-seam bluejeans and a matching heavy denim shirt with the sleeves cut to the armpits.

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You may see the Arhuac in Pueblo Bello, with their white serapes (a long blanket-like shawl), tall coned hats, long black hair and beautifully stitched handbags slung across lean shoulders -- but they will rarely meet your gaze, looking down or off to the side, avoiding attention and gliding past with a cool effortlessness.

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He would position his more than 6ft-tall frame practically chest-to-chest with someone he wanted to influence, and lean in nearly nose-to-nose as his quarry would try to squirm away.

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In a recent CNN.com article about the plight of tall travelers, some said that they ask passengers in front of them to be considerate and not lean back.

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