Sentence examples for is rigid with from inspiring English sources

Her pale face is rigid with sleeplessness.

His neck is rigid with suppressed emotion.

Gleaming with assurance, Rutter is rigid with purpose, moving as if armour-clad.

Corrected by Sam, Hally, the stage directions tell us, "is rigid with shame".

She is rigid with misery; her voice is low; each syllable is an attempt to control what has already happened.

Dipping, inexplicably, into and out of an English accent, she is rigid with false humility, paranoia, and self-regard.

I was rigid with fear.

His body and voice are rigid with certainty.

I was rigid, with an arm outstretched horizontally I couldn't check the time.

These children, he told her, have high fevers and an abdomen that's rigid with pain.

But the novel's Mixtec characters are rigid with folkloric dignity; Serafina is wrapped in a nimbus of refined similes.