Sentence examples for be rather stiff from inspiring English sources

To make gingerbread rounds, unwrap the dough (it will be rather stiff) and divide it into equal-sized workable portions.

Properly beaten egg whites will be uniformly white and will be rather stiff.

In practice, however, many polymers are rather stiff and inflexible.

Brothers' manner is rather stiff and combative at first.

Anna Visscher's poetry is rather stiff and impersonal; she wrote for the most part sonnets and lofliederen, cleverly devised odes to important personages.

We have halls that are rather stiff, rigid and orthodox in their repertoire: we should pay more attention to the lighter, less daunting stuff.

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

He is, she writes, "the greatest craftsman in the profession, and in many ways the most poetic and evocative" — a fine tribute, it would seem, yet the words are rather stiff compared with the affectionate praise she bestows on her friend Antony Tudor.

The end-modified UPy-polymer is rather stiff and brittle due to its high crystallinity.

First, the set of considered soil profiles is dominated by KiK-net sites, which are rather stiff.

Since these areas located mountainous areas, we think the site conditions are rather stiff and effect of the near-surface amplification is probably not large (Bonnefoy-Claudet et al. 2009).