The boredom can be as painful for theatre-goers as the stifled hopes and unrealised dreams are for his characters.If moroseness is one way to kill Chekhov, another method, favoured outside Russia, is to turn his plays into stiff drawing-room comedies.
Bob Kane's original vision for Batman's cape was as sort of a wearable hang glider, but this created a cape that was too stiff to draw.
The measure is drawing stiff opposition from trial lawyers, plaintiffs' advocates and many Democrats, who argue that the lower caps would deprive patients of legal recourse when they are injured.
Sensing widespread public support for a harsh crackdown on the rioters and an expansion of police powers, Mr. Cameron has backed the "speedy justice" that has hastened hundreds of suspects through round-the-clock courts, some of them drawing stiff prison sentences for even minor cases of looting.
Venice reacted by first meting out stiff punishment, then by drawing the rural noble families into Venetian aristocratic life.
Her vivid perceptions and stiff upper lip drew Mr. Rohmer to her story.
Its plans had already drawn stiff opposition from some New York politicians.
But the agreement — the first of its kind for Aurora — drew stiff rebukes from opponents of hydraulic fracturing.
But her new proposal to demolish the existing building at 66-68 Bell Lane drew stiff local resistance, with nearly 60 objections lodged with the council.
But in a statement, Mr. McConnell noted that the speaker had expressed an interest in trying to find a "new path forward" with Senate Democrats, suggesting that he wanted to go in a different direction than the McConnell plan, which had drawn stiff opposition in the House.
The China deal, which would have effectively expanded Chinalco's existing 9.3percentt stake in Rio to 18.5percentt, had drawn stiff political opposition in Australia, where mineral riches have fueled the country's prosperity and where some have begun to fear China's power in the region.
