Sentence examples for a rather stiff from inspiring English sources

He offered a rather stiff loosener.

Bernstein also proffers a rather stiff agenda.

He's a rather stiff athlete with poor instincts and swivel in traffic.

The first two of these factors resulted in a rather stiff positivism.

Tim Fountain directs and York clearly doesn't mind sending himself up, but it's still less a show than a rather stiff lecture.

"Cynthia gave me my birth certificate in my early 20s in a rather stiff, matter-of-fact way – a pure statement of fact in a slightly stressed monotone.

Sometimes they just need to be allowed to get on with it in a rather stiff-upper-lipped sort of way.

It was all rather stiff and formal, another group of dignitaries calling in on the music classes, until it occurred to someone to give the English visitor a cello.

Second, since kinetic models often have a fixed and rather stiff nature (as opposed to the flexibility of e.g. neural networks, as used in machine learning), it is a priori unclear if regularization can really help to avoid overfitting and enhance the predictive value of the calibrated model.

Cotton's scarcity fostered all kinds of ingenuity, including an elegant if rather stiff kimono from the 1920's made of banana fiber.

Many of the architects were tickled by her enthusiasm, particularly because Mr. Breuer apparently had a reputation for being rather stiff.