Sentence examples for stiff crowd from inspiring English sources

Attendees, however, said Ms. Goldberg had a bit of a rocky start in front of a somewhat stiff crowd of several hundred people, but quickly found her footing.

A semi-remote area in northeastern Portugal with small, winding roads that wrap around steeply terraced vineyards, the Douro River Valley was better known as a sleepy getaway for a stiff British crowd of a certain age who quietly toured the region's quintas, or port wine estates.

Mrs Arroyo seemed distant and stiff with the crowd of onlookers, several of whom confessed their intention to vote for Mr Poe.

In fact, The Kiss was so brief, the supposedly-stiff-upper-lipped British crowd actually yelled for more (insert your own "stiff upper lip" kiss joke, here).

As the song "Fame" plays, Ms. Hayes dashes about, handing fliers to the audience and pleading, "Vote for Kelly!" To a montage of Madonna songs, Ms. Hayes prances about the stage, pauses to raise her arms like a gymnast — often flashing a stiff smile at the crowd — until, skittering backward, she falls on her rear.

The décor (imagine the hippest library you've ever been in, with a roaring fire, a sexy crowd, and stiff drinks) sets the stage for one of the most appealing hotel bar scenes in town.

Ralph Thomas's version of A Tale of Two Cities (1958) climaxes with a stirring scene in which Sydney Carton (a wonderfully laconic Dirk Bogarde) mounts the steps of the guillotine, but until then the film is largely a tale of two accents: Cockney for character actors and the crowd, and stiff-lipped RP for everyone else.

It was ferocious stuff, the kind of choppy, chordy, stiff house that sends crowds wild and reminds you why any of us give a fuck about this music.

Gary Numan's set left the crowd needing a stiff drink as they were confronted with grinding riffs and industrial rock closer to Nine Inch Nails than anything in the electro-pop pioneer's past.

The friendly barman, Max Orondini, says: "This place is like a slice of local life, from the lawyers and businessmen huddled over an espresso in the morning, to genteel ladies slipping in before the evening rush for a stiff Negroni, to the party crowd that turns up after midnight, when you'll discover that Mantua is not a museum city stuck in the middle ages".

The rest of the crowd looked pretty stiff (dry).