Sentence examples for stiff alert from inspiring English sources

Melania Trump receding ever inwards behind that thousand-yard stare, stiff, alert, and utterly dead inside.

I watched as my husband was driven into the interior of the base, his head held stiff and alert, getting smaller and smaller, until the prison truck and my husband were gone.

A boy in a Benneton T-shirt, the best picture in the show, is caught stepping forward, one shoulder up, alert, stiff, fresh, in a pose that seems like a metaphor for his transitional age.

The Northern Wei, eager to be as Chinese as possible, designed their Buddhist figures on the model of the Confucian gentleman: erect, alert, dressed in stiff, layered, body-concealing robes.

And the small, slim wheel and alert suspension (not stiff, just taut) do much to augment the gutsy Boxster feel.

Their participants spoke of experiencing various immediate benefits, such as being more alert or being less stiff.

Health and education officials have alerted parents and students at the two schools to be alert for symptoms of viral meningitis, including fevers, headaches and stiff necks.

It also suggested that doctors inserting the implants be alert to the symptoms of meningitis: fever, lethargy, stiff neck, headache and irritability.

The agency has proposed a voluntary certification program that would toughen audit standards and alert federal authorities of problems — an idea that has met stiff resistance from the food industry.

Dornan's dry and inhibited performance, meanwhile, is a mark of the director James Foley's indifference — the actor was alert and witty as Count von Fersen in Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette" but is shrunken and stiff here.

An editor can and will alert their author that an odd coincidence reads as ridiculously contrived, or that a character's dialogue seems stiff and unrealistic; that's part of helping a writer hone their craft and polish their book.