Sentence examples for a mountain of a man from inspiring English sources

Ferrara is a mountain of a man who chain-smokes Camel cigarettes and drinks espresso like water.

Mr. Gyamfi, a mountain of a man, was wearing his thick wool fugu robe stitched with patches and small mirrors.

SIX-FOOT-FOUR, and thickly built, Detroit's new mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, is a mountain of a man.

A mountain of a man whirling what looked like a cannonball above his head as effortlessly as a yo-yo.

A mountain of a man at 6-foot-1 and 375 pounds, Mr. Chandler entered Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville for what seemed like a relatively simple operation.

He ends up befriending one of the baddest of all Afghanistan bad guys, a "mountain of a man" named Haji Juma Khan Mohammadhasni.

He is a mountain of a guy (at 6ft 10in, the tallest man ever to play on the Tour) but a real gentleman, and not afraid of hard work.

He was a snowy-haired, craggy mountain of a man; a man who radiated granite integrity and deep kindness.

With his brooding eyes, flowing dark hair and a voice inflected with the rumble and drawl of his native Denmark, he's a formidable mountain of a man.

A sweet-tempered mountain of a man, he runs Jasper's Summer Shack, a seafood joint in the far reaches of Cambridge that serves 4,000 meals some weeks.

The Los Angeles Times was a "fiercely conservative" newspaper, Blum says, and its publisher, an "unpleasant mountain of a man" named Harrison Gray Otis, had vowed to turn Los Angeles into "a bustling, nonunion metropolis".