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He wrote that Carl Yastrzemski, “like so many great hitters, has oddly protuberant eyes.”

In the eyes — eyes squinting with suspicion when not protuberant with anger — of those currently setting the GOP’s tone, Ryan’s invocation of Reagan is distasteful.

She had described a man as having “a beer gut that belongs in the Smithsonian”; that was changed, she laments, to “protuberant abdomen.”

He has a long face and long, wavy brown hair parted at the crest; his chin is protuberant and cratered by a dimple the size of Chicxulub.

Mr. Curtain’s reflective glasses and protuberant nose eased toward Sticky’s face like a snake testing the air.