Rangy and broad-shouldered, he lent a rockabilly swagger to even his most technical briefings.

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If Clementi had a touch of middle-aged fastidiousness, Ravi was fully a teen-ager: rangy, physical, with a taste for public regard.

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He was tall and rangy with wavy, graying hair.

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Today, watching a rangy, red-haired farmer on an Icelandic horse shouting at his long-haired Icelandic sheep in a largely unchanged dialect of Old Norse is the closest any of us will get to a Viking Jurassic Park.

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He was convincing and often dominant against the rangy 25-year-old Frenchman, roaring to a 5-1 lead in taking the first set, feasting on Monfils's second serve, and fending off multiple set points before winning the tiebreak.

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King Papa and King of the Goblin, performed by the same dancer (rangy John Welker), are costumed similarly in gold-trimmed black jumpsuits and are missing the crowns one would expect as a sign of their stations.

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But while American Apparel's acid bright and tight leggings, playsuits and hoodies are modelled by rangy, gawky teens, Abercrombie and Fitch's models are, by contrast, in rude health and seemingly on the verge of al fresco rumpy-pumpy.

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Denton is tall and rangy, and has a famously large head that sits precariously on a thin neck and narrow shoulders, leaving the impression of an evolved brain that is perhaps a little too conscious of its pedestrian context.

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Luevano is a tall, rangy southpaw, and, although Cook admits he has not met anyone like him before, he is confident his preparation, including two weeks in Tenerife with London welterweight Michael Lomax and Commonwealth super featherweight champion Kevin Mitchell, has been spot on.

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