Sentence examples for a stiff way from inspiring English sources

"Some Propositions Concerning the Lounge Lizards" is a stiff way to approach such a limber, erudite group of musical deviants — yet Moody writes with impressive warmth about the chief Lizard, John Lurie, and the band's bittersweet, luckless career has seldom been more fondly captured.

Evan suspects that one of his neighbors is an alien (due to his strange, stiff way of speaking and because he always seems to be watching him).

In much of the developed world, Khan writes, schools use a top-down teaching model first developed in Prussia, a Germanic kingdom known for "stiff whiskers, stiff hats, and stiff way of marching in lockstep". Students must march ahead even if they haven't understood what came before.

It's based around jazz, but not necessarily jazz in that very straight, stiff way.

The traces of the paralyzing stroke he suffered two years ago are still visible in the stiff way he holds his right hand and shoulder, but otherwise Mr. Williams is in fine fettle, his diabetes gone, his hypertension tamed.

Then he did a series of dances in which he always stopped before we thought he would, always held his arms in a stiff, poking-out way — as opposed to the curved arms of traditional flamenco — and basically drove us nuts and made us think.

On Mess, they're trying on a sort of electronic death-disco, funky in a stiff sort of way, and imbued with a certain goth melodrama.

"What a stiff… by the way, he's registered zero in the polls," he said.

The original discovery had revealed that thousands of individual cilia in the week-old mouse embryo rotate from their base, similar to the way a stiff arm rotates around the shoulder.

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We offer another way, a better way and a stiff dose of truth.