lean and hungry look
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Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2012
The first impression of Ms. Haberle as Phaedra is of a tough broad with a lean and hungry look: Elaine Stritch played by a middle-aged Audrey Hepburn.
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2011
Powell has the proverbial lean and hungry look.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their eyes are sullen, their mouths firm; they have a "lean and hungry" look.
From Time Magazine Archive
When I read, I conjured images of the characters, and Frank, with his lean and hungry look, reminded me of Cassius in Julius Caesar.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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