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As a lissom 20-year-old I resented my waddly disguise, but came around to a riveting truth: being attractive was less useful to me than being free.

“It’s also put together with a lissom confidence and a breeziness that more than compensates for a gossamer lightness when it comes to substance.”

On the 6 and 6 Plus, it’s lissom.

It's lissom and light – insubstantial, but in a good way.

Somewhere along the way during the past 14 years the lissom whippersnapper with the fleet feet turned into the craggy old hulk who will line up against England on Sunday.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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