| Philip Walsh conducts Jonathan Dove's ingenious orchestral reduction with flair, even if he can't disguise the occasional un-Puccinian scrawniness of the string sound. |
| And Sean McNall's scrawniness works nicely in his favor when he turns up, shirtless, as Xerxes. |
| As the son, James Urbaniak, who has worked with Ms. Pearlstein before, adds a scrawniness and rubbery face worthy of George Booth. |
| But this last offer had been accompanied by a sneer, and had tokened the old rascal's scorn of the girl's scrawniness. |
| And you do sometimes see a few blacks, conspicuous for their scrawniness and their rags-but they are only a tiny minority in the crowd of the well-to-do. |
| Her shoulders, her bosom do not have that scrawniness characteristic of female dancers whose whole weight seems to have descended into their legs. |
