paunchiness

It keeps faith trim and helps to shed the paunchiness of false ideas.

In a country where much of the population is hungry, our most effective propaganda is our paunchiness.

Francis, as chief mourner, stood next to the vicar; his paunchiness exaggerated by an old, dark suit that was too small for him.

Brian Stollerman (my first lover and first husband) was very short, inclined to paunchiness, hairy and dark.

His voice was soft and light, and his unexercised life gave him a juvenile chubbiness rather than the paunchiness of premature middle age.

In spite of years of conscientious weight-lifting, Gary - of medium height and slender build, despite a recent tendency toward paunchiness - had never looked particularly comfortable with his body.

The downside to exclusivity, of course, was a certain inbred organic weakness, a tendency toward paunchiness and the early triple bypass-among these tired aging buffalos, Hans Brinkman stood out like a fierce young lion.

In Edwards, whose slight paunchiness is just right for the sybaritic Donald, Sibay has found an actor with as much impact as Rubin, and who illuminates Helen's every facet and contradiction.

When Joseph Fiennes played the small-town sheriff in Anthony Weigh's 2,000 Feet Away, his chiselled features and honed physique disobeyed references in the script to the character's doughnut-guzzling and paunchiness.

That's because the noun, by virtue of its use as a hyphenated compound adjective in middle-age spread, creates nail-nibbling self-doubt amid visions of muffin-top midriffs and the realization that paunchiness precludes raunchiness.