Sentence examples for somewhat stiff from inspiring English sources

Mark Catesby's illustrations are somewhat stiff and posed, but have excellent botanical backgrounds.

The cops liked and admired Gene, even though he was a dignified and somewhat stiff fellow.

(A somewhat stiff Teresa Reichlen did not manage the balance quite so well as Hippolyta).

Mr. Torquati is a thoughtful musician and a self-effacing, somewhat stiff performer.

A somewhat stiff public speaker, he went largely unnoticed in the first televised debate.

The Chinese bass-baritone Shenyang was a vocally hardy and earnest, if somewhat stiff, Colline.

A4 is somewhat stiffer and less extensible than A3.

The U.S. landings at Oran met somewhat stiffer opposition.

Reports about politics or the economy need not be submitted to censorship, though articles dealing with oil supplies to Israel do.Restrictions during wartime are somewhat stiffer for the Israeli press than for the foreign press.

According to Matt Thorne in the Daily Telegraph, "Coupland's later novels have a slightly rushed quality, as if written at great speed, but I find them more enjoyable than his early, somewhat stiffer and less rich books. . .

Use a crochet hook one size smaller than recommended for your yarn to obtain a tighter crochet, and therefore a somewhat stiffer finished product.