Sentence examples for rather wooden from inspiring English sources

And these bohemians sometimes seemed rather wooden.

In October he hammed it up in the Queen Vic, with Barbara Windsor, playing a rather wooden version of himself.

An ever-grinning Mr Stoiber was deemed to have performed well by his own rather wooden and gaffe-prone standards.

Online footage of its acting prowess does reveal it to be rather wooden, although no more so than anything on display in, say, Avatar.

Ms. Hilty, who here resembles Loni Anderson more than Ms. Parton, still does Dolly credibly in her line readings and her singing, while Ms. Block is rather wooden in a thankless part.

I can remember trying to juggle resources as our reporters, in addition to filing for the Post, had to go on camera to deliver a usually substandard and rather wooden report.

I had thought they were rather like wooden dollhouses, but they are far more fantastical.

OF AMPLIFICATION on "Incidental Intelligence" of Apr. 27, 1963, which reported that some Vermont farmers use plastic bags rather than wooden buckets to catch sap from maple trees.

OF AMPLIFICATION on "Incidental Intelligence" of Apr. 27, 1963, which reported that some Vermont farmers use plastic bags rather than wooden buckets to catch… In the Books dept.

OF AMPLIFICATION on "Incidental Intelligence" of Apr. 27, 1963, which reported that some Vermont farmers use plastic bags rather than wooden buckets to catch….

I don't think anyone would argue that it's probably better for little Johnny or Jane if their parents would rather whittle wooden figurines with them than pop them in front of Frozen or Angry Birds on the iPad.