The long poem, "Elsewhere", which ends the book, infuses the stiff didactic form of a medieval morality play with thrilling moral ambivalence.
Around the start of the 5th century BC, the stiff archaic forms of Greek sculpture escaped their fetters and the dynamism and realism known as the "classical" style was unleashed.
D: When Kevin and I were working on the character I kept asking, "Do you want anything that looks stiff or any form of robotic movement?" And he said, "No, I want it to be as human as possible".I had started doing all this research, reading about Michael Fassbender and all the research he did on Prometheus, and I asked Kevin, "Do you want my posture more correct?
Its reply was a stiff finger in the form of a large rocket.
Dooley has stiff competition in the form of this 23-year-old former Vice music journalist turned model, TV presenter and documentary maker.
It won him the British Press Guild award for the most memorable broadcast of the year, though he was up against stiff competition in the form of the footballer Paul Gascoigne who was nominated for bursting into tears during a vital match in Italy.
Fallow deer flee from predators by using a form of stiff-legged jumping and running called stotting.
Whatever plan lawmakers gin up, entrepreneurs in California will likely feel a sting in the form of stiffer taxes.
Protectionist trade measures, perhaps in the form of a stiff US tariff on Chinese imports, would be profoundly self-destructive, even absent the inevitable retaliatory measures.
This alabaster monument featuring freestanding sculptures, pillars, and reliefs defied the traditional Gothic form of a stiff, recumbent effigy and instead recalled Venetian wall monuments, which often presented the deceased as a more active, reclining figure.
