mesomorphic

Mesomorphic or muscular body type is positively correlated with criminality.

He puts on a big show of being ectomorphic, but this is all a cover-up because he's quite mesomorphic."

Kizanti have mesomorphic builds, red eyes with black oval-shaped pupils, and no earlobes.

Mesophase, a mesomorphic state of matter.

V-shaped, or mesomorphic, males are considered attractive.

Low-temperature mesomorphic behavior in general is technologically more useful, and alkyl terminal groups promote this.

A more proper name is 'mesomorphic phases' (mesomorphic: intermediate form)

The body is mesomorphic, that is, slightly longer than the dog is tall, contributing to the feline movement.

The mesomorphic physique of a slim waist, broad shoulders and muscular chest are often found to be attractive to females.

Alley Oop, a mesomorphic caveman, rode into the comics astride Dinny the dinosaur nearly 60 years ago.

Further, a degree of hirsuteness (hairiness) and a waist-to-shoulder ratio of 0.6 is often preferred when combined with a mesomorphic physique.

The Puro Sangue Orientale is a mesomorphic or mesodolichomorphic horse, with particularly harmonious forms.

Lipids can undergo polymorphic or mesomorphic changes leading to the formation of lamellar or non-lamellar phases which will also be further explained.

Georges Friedel (1922) called attention to the "mesomorphic states of matter" in his scientific assessment of observations of the so-called liquid crystals.

Duffy Deeter, the novel's mesomorphic, Type-A protagonist, is an extreme version of a certain archetypal American male.

A basically anthropometric division of body types into the categories endomorphic, ectomorphic and mesomorphic derived from Sheldon's somatotype theories is today popular among people doing weight training.

We live in insecure times, and, in his genial, taciturn, mesomorphic and simple way, Mr. Schwarzenegger entertains us and reassures us at the same time.

Rather, it's the motivator's motivator, the sultan of Uber-ness: Tony Robbins, a 6-foot-7-inch, mesomorphic wild man who is fond of expressions like "Quadruple the intensity!"

In these confessionals, Mac, with his dark skin, short Afro and round, walleyed countenance, looks less like an avuncular Cosby than a mesomorphic Notorious B.I.G.

In psychology, he developed a new version of somatotypology by classifying people into endomorphic, mesomorphic, and ectomorphic, based on many photographs and measurements of nude figures at Ivy League schools.

You too may find them so, in which case Spain's mesomorphic and totally martial Rafael Nadal is the man's man for you - he of the unsleeved biceps and Kabuki self-exhortations.

For example, lower working-class people are more likely to be mesomorphic as a result of their diet and continual manual labour, and this class grouping is more likely to be found represented in the criminal statistics.

As I said, he was a good-sized guy, rather stocky, with the kind of mesomorphic build that could be described as either muscular or couch potatoesque, depending on what he was wearing and how he was standing.

It seemed reasonable that the nation would come down from its mesomorphic high and return to its shuffleboards, tennis courts and garage basketball hoops: to a time when exercise was something you hardly thought about, much less made into a religion.

They do not want to repair a past, let alone consort with it; they want to fit into a healthy mesomorphic present, to abjure the ghosts not only of AIDS but also of the whole weird struggle for liberation.