elephantine
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It is often assumed that elephantine ponderousness is the price that must be paid for their storytelling heft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
As the 2000s wrapped up and the hip-hop aesthetic moved from elephantine jean shorts and Air Force 1s, Cena’s character became a more generic good guy in a colorful T-shirt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
It turned out that, for a few crucial years in the late-Eisenhower and early-Kennedy era, Ellsberg was at the center of this story, and his memory was elephantine.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2023
By the 1960s, Mr. Lorayne was best known for holding audiences rapt with feats of memory that bordered on the elephantine.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
Don Guillermo looked like an oafish policeman, right down to his elephantine ears and the brass buttons on his cuffs.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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