(1) Quaid has the lean, ropy physique of a lifelong athlete.

(2) It was somewhere we had visited on art college trips where, apart from the odd art gallery, the only Parisian experience we had was stumbling back through the red light district to our ropy hotel.

(3) The graphics are at times ropy , but the animation is great, and the feeling of being in the world - albeit a linear, defined world - is very well realised.

(4) As I balanced atop a trapeze of ropy branches ten feet above the boggy ground, my pack suddenly slipped over my head and I plunged forward.

(5) Glossy leaves hung from dipping boughs, and thick, ropy vines crept up massive, strong trees.

(6) Only a handful of tracks are sung in rather ropy English.

(7) Their long hair was thick and ropy , hanging partway down their broad backs.

(8) My sodden hair clings in ropy hanks to my body.

(9) The arms connected to those hands were covered in ropy muscle all the way up to the broad shoulders.

(10) His arms are ropy with muscle, shaved smooth, veins braiding down to his wrists.

(11) Derek Jarman is of course known for the mainly ropy , occasionally great films he made.

(12) It's always being thought that staff from failed e-commerce ventures had gained marketable experience, however ropy the business plan of the firms they worked for was.

(13) Jobs kicked off his spiel with the admission that the last seven months had been pretty ropy for the manufacturer.

(14) But they were strong, too, he could tell by the ropy muscles that flexed underneath their skin.

(15) The spindle cell areas showed extensive sclerosis with ropy , thick, osteoid-like collagen and microcalcifications.

(16) The accent on fighting is perhaps overplayed given the slight ropiness of the fighting system.

(17) Made in a pre-CGI age, it all looks a little ropey , with the fight scenes played for laughs out of necessity.

(18) The white, ropey scar threaded its way from his neck bone to his left pectoral muscle.

(19) And yeah, the CGI in the trailer looked a bit ropey , but it's early days yet.

(20) Some of it is ropey , and some of the tracks go down routes that I wouldn't take nowadays, but on the whole I think it stands up.

(21) But be wary, the quality, while satisfactory on a 3.5in screen, will look very ropey on a 32 in widescreen job.

(22) A portrait by a pretty ropey artist

(23) While the premise is ropey at best, this is a damn enjoyable game.

(24) I do think it was put together quite nicely, visually, though, and the look is very effective and evocative - particularly the fact that you're watching a lot of what happens through ropey CCTV footage.

(25) My colleaguesu2019 somewhat ropey grasp of physics resulted in a deluge of emails pointing out the error of our ways.

(26) A fairly ropey Greatest Hits collection followed and the recent announcement that Orbital were to split surprised nobody.

(27) We're drowning under vast quantities of ropey information, and none the wiser for the experience.

(28) There have been some glowing PR-style puffs for this scheme in the mainstream press, but I think that it's pretty ropey .

(29) They've sold some right horrors over the years, such as ropey endowments and high charging managed funds.

(30) This fact goes some way towards explaining why the nation's personal finances are looking pretty ropey at the moment.