But there was a stiffness in the paper".
I put my pinkie in his hand, but I could feel a stiffness creeping in.
Deep in its bones there's a stiffness that's not easily banished.
She writes with a stiffness ill suited to Foujita's playful side.
I've always had a stiffness in my bearing, owing to my guilt at being alive.
"Adults are fine, but there's just a stiffness that they have that kids don't have," said Mr. Popolizio.
And as moon and mother collide, there is something biblical about the "unto" in the last line that gives the confession a stiffness that insures against sentimentality.
Josh Taylor, now Commonwealth super lightweight champion, felt a stiffness in his neck as he warmed up and looked to Connor for help.
Baritone Sir Thomas Allen was often outstanding, too, but some of the other performers had a stiffness that made you long for the celluloid originals.
She was too dismayed by the change in Mrs. Travers, by what looked like an increase in bulk, a stiffness in her movements, a random and rather frantic air of benevolence.
He began to feel a stiffness after a round of golf, and because the body compensates until it breaks down, the strain was in his hips and groin area.
