What looks most remarkable now, though, isn't the blank still face that closes the film, but the daringly long run that brings us to it, that allows our emotions to gather and build with each short, stiff step until, without quite understanding why, we end up overwhelmed.
The predictor updates the scalar fields using a Strang-type operator-split integration step which combines several explicit diffusion sub-steps with a single stiff step for the reaction terms, such that the global time step may significantly exceed the critical diffusion stability limit.
Allison Ulrich, with one arm strapped across her belly, takes stiff parallel steps.
Geeky and awkward, these foolish figures hunch their backs deeply while taking stiff, shuddering steps across the stage.
His back is stiff, his steps are cautious, and he is slow to pick up on his cues.
Though it may well take court and regulatory judgements to determine how stiff those steps need to be in practice.
Dave Robinson, boss of the wilful Stiff Records, stepped in and signed Stardust.
Mr. Brown pays no attention as Danny Ray stalks him with the cape, but when it is flung over his shoulders he bows deeply, soaking up the applause, before taking heavy, tentative, stiff-legged steps.
He made himself a stiff nightcap and stepped out onto the balcony to smoke, although he also peeked through the curtains before going out, to make sure the coast was clear.
