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212 examples of Stature in a sentence

When I click on Yuri Gagarin's page, I get this guy who was surprisingly short in stature, huge in heroism.
Conversely, in sports where diminutive stature is an advantage, the small athletes got smaller.
By the time Roosevelt went hunting in Mississippi, that stature was being crushed, and the animal that he had roped to a tree really was a symbol for all bears.
The Times had half a page of editorial dedicated to him, which you can imagine is premium space for a newspaper of their stature.
A place like Chicago has really reached kind of a level of international stature.
Trees are wonderful arenas for discovery because of their tall stature, their complex structure, the biodiversity they foster and their quiet beauty.
To love everybody, he sometimes did not see the very closest ones, and that is inevitable for men of his stature.
But those that do survive, they carry forward long-term cognitive problems as well as losses of stature.
He is bigger in stature, but not quite the Jack Palance goodness.
Perhaps I just do not like his way of speaking or his stature.
I actually felt bad for Sue Price, because the material was beneath an actress of her stature (that pretty much says it all).
Shirley Temple's films for Twentieth Century Fox aren't negligible because they're poorly-made (Darryl F. Zanuck supervised most of them, after all); they don't retain much of a "classic" stature among cinema aficionados mainly because they're weighed down with the syrupy optimism of Depression-era Hollywood.
He shamelessly exaggerates his stature in all three.
It was an unexpected surprise that someone of small stature compared to Snipes should come across as menacing, but he does.
However, the last half hour is edge-of-your-seat viewing, the climax atop the Stature of Liberty is very well done, and the film is a clear predecessor of "North By Northwest" (1959).
Of the bigger Hollywood names present, Gyllenhaal's stature grows with succeeding films, here playing the initially detached but later conscience - stricken and anguished Government man who does the right thing in the end.
Sage perfumery of this Italian masterpiece, Scola is a director of the stature of Mussolinni: his cake will jump in your strawberries and if you let this director he will cream your olives as a Superman.
Sequels are a capricious lot with most nowhere near the stature of the original.
This film isn't of epic stature, but it turns out i was relieved it wasn't.
The leading actors are Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane, although director Alfred Hitchcock wanted Gary Cooper, and Barbara Stanwyck in the roles, which would have given the movie more stature.
"Yeh dil na hota bechara" by Kishore Kumar, "Raat akeli hai" by Asha Bhosle, "Rula ke gaya sapna mera" by Lata, "Aasman ke niche" by Lata and Rafi and "Hothon pe aisi baat main" by Lata, again reaffirm Burman Dada's unique stature as a top notch composer with a style of his own.
They are sheltered by the priestess Shinobu (Otome Tsukimiya), who serves the Hanabusa clan's god, Majin, a vengeful spirit imprisoned in the giant stature carved into the side of a local mountain.
Fred Claus will make no one forget Bedford Falls, but I do not believe a Christmas film should have to reach iconic stature to succeed.
Fans hoped that a director of Kubrick's stature would succeed where Hooper had failed.
I know it sounds funny and it is, but I do not see the killing of people as being NECESSARY... Thirdly, Leon acts like Superman jumping on the train and fighting Vinnie Jones, who was way taller and bigger in stature.
Actors of stature - Robert Duvall, Robert Downey, Jr. - are deployed in roles which go nowhere; a director of occasional genius produces a film which looks like it is filmed through a coffee-stained camera lens; a writer (John Grisham) who has never produced anything of merit, discovers new depths of under-motivated incoherence.
This chap with the winchester repeating rifle has none of the strength, stature, subtlety, or humour needed for the part, and is upstaged by everyone including the witch doctor, who incidentally seems from my point of view to be more convincing as an actor than the rest of the cast.
Other than that, the movie is a wasted opportunity and achieves nowhere near the classic stature of other Wald produced soaps of the 1950 (PEYTON PLACE, THE BEST OF EVERYTHING).
It may have worked much better with different leads: Holden and Lenz don't match up well (her stature is so slight he seems to tower over her), making their intimate scenes less stirring than simply uncomfortable.
Her stature as an actress is more questionable than her charisma, which she certainly had.
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