corpulence

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Villeneuve and storyboard artist Sam Hudecki spent weeks brainstorming approaches to the Baron’s physicality, trying to convey a sense of muscularity along with corpulence.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2021

His thick musculature having bloated into unhealthy corpulence, Maradona was hospitalized in Buenos Aires in April 2004 with what doctors described as a weakened heart and acute breathing problems.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2020

How did Coke and other soft drinks become such significant contributors to citizens’ corpulence?

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2015

He’s confined to his apartment due to his corpulence as he tries to make peace with his past and reconcile with his daughter.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2014

But it is true that we have exchanged corpulence for starvation, and either one will kill us.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck