Sentence examples for increasingly stiff from inspiring English sources

Not to mention eager to offer the same visitor a series of increasingly stiff drinks.

Competition for grants has become increasingly stiff, with the council receiving 96 applications for its Arts Alive grants in 1999.

His serving power dropped, his movement grew increasingly stiff and pained, his temper shortened to the point of combustion.

The prospect is for an increasingly stiff dose of testing; and yet the politics of the situation are by no means obvious.

A suggestive title can provide hints: Anthony Coleman's "Atropine," named for a prescription drug derived from deadly nightshade, doled out initially attractive gestures on piano, violin, cello and percussion in increasingly stiff fits and jerks.

Christopher Mines, a senior analyst with Forrester Research, a technology consultancy, is optimistic that more focused efforts by AT&T and WorldCom will provide increasingly stiff competition for so far impervious Bells.

As we began to talk, he seemed increasingly irritated and stiff, and he told me to turn off my audio recorder.

Another hypothesis is that the association of circulating OPG with prognosis reflects the generalized inflammation and the vascular disease of AL, which further contributes to heart dysfunction due to the fact that the heart is working against an increasingly atherosclerotic and stiff vascular tree.

After the top five most common labels (woman, black dress, portrait, table, gown), the tags taper off into a long list of increasingly subjective terms (aristocrat, stiff, daring, snob, scandalous, etc).

Mr Purcell, though sharp, was stiff, remote and increasingly paranoid.

Increasingly severe drug laws and stiff sentences for drug offenses resulted in disproportionate numbers of black women going to prison, he said, "and now they are disproportionately benefiting from reductions in that area".