Sentence examples for oddly stiff from inspiring English sources
But a movement honoring the Latin-jazz titan Tito Puente was oddly stiff.
Then he undertook his signature song, "When a Man Loves a Woman," over an unnecessarily plush, oddly stiff orchestral arrangement that robbed the song of its lonely drama.
The Americans got hold of the much superior Japanese original, Godzilla, and edited into it 20 minutes-worth of Burr, with his vacant and oddly stiff expression, in order to spice things up.
The result is an oddly stiff compromise, issuing solemn warnings to a family audience about nothing in particular, and directed by former choreographer Rob Marshall with a rare minimum of shake and shimmy.
But in the here and now, I can forgive a lot of what The Crew does wrong: the oddly stiff flags scattered around the land they won't ripple in the wind, instead remaining Moon Landing rigid as well as the same three-birds-fleeing-a-verge animations and the trucks manifesting from nowhere right in front of me at an intersection.
Apart from an oddly stiff-gaited introduction, Mr. Boulez's muscular conception was fierce and revelatory.
And the inventive director Robert Carsen, in this modern-dress production, fills the stage with fields of oddly stiff-stemmed flowers, wind storms, snow and hail and, in the final scene, a real rain shower.
Brown, like Gore before him, will seem stiff, unnatural, oddly robotic, a creature of 24/7 politics, unable to speak fluent human.
While it's true that an apparently relaxed, sunny personality does wonders on the campaign trail, it wasn't just the vice-president's "stiff, unnatural, oddly robotic" personality that dashed his chances.
The negative reviews generally disliked the film's Cold War-period setting, using various adjectives to describe it such as "stuffy," "stiff," "bor[ing]," "oddly hollow," "embalmed," "truncated," and "psychic suffocation".
