But Mr. Ejiofor ("12 Years a Slave"), who usually wrings so much out of stoicism, here is often just quiet, a rigid artist in a dinner jacket and starched white shirt.
The entertainment at the dinner follows a rigid pattern.
Sounds rigid, but these sorts of dinners are FUN over the holidays.
One imagines the Parisian bourgeoisie maintaining their rigid, sophisticated expressions at the zoo dinner while acknowledging the chef with a measured response.
During the country's industrialization, rigid factory schedules replaced agricultural work rhythms, pushing dinner to evening and reducing the midday meal to a short, informal refueling.
He won't work to a rigid schedule: certain scenes, he says, like the sex and the dinner scenes in Blue Is… could only be shot when he and the actors were in the right mood.
No one in New York, thankfully, is nearly that rigid, though more than a few restaurateurs bristled when I asked if they've noticed an increase in cocktail drinking through dinner.
The dinner, which was at a far smaller venue than the big rallies Ms. Palin often attends, had tight security and rigid rules.
