Sentence examples for stiff studio from inspiring English sources

The fascination extends to snapshots of my father in his First World War soldier's uniform and my mother in her college hockey outfit, youthful and hopeful in the void before I was born, but thins with snapshots they saved of people I never knew, and reaches the vanishing point in stiff studio portraits, not snapshots at all, of ancestors to whom no narrative has been attached.

Their inventive compositions were looser than the stiff, stuffier studio portraits of the 50s.

He also spoke negatively of Anderson during an interview with Access Hollywood, and called him "stiff in a studio" in a column he wrote for the Hollywood Reporter.

It continued with a column Morgan wrote for the Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, where he described Cooper as "stiff in a studio", and that his show gets "annihilated in the ratings" by Fox News's Bill O'Reilly.

Those reporters — and in the early 1960s the CBS A-team included Mike Wallace and Morley Safer — often read their reports sitting at desks in front of curtains in out-of-town studios, as stiff and unsmiling as hostages in a ransom tape.

None of the franchise movies will be released this year, however, when Warner will face stiff competition from rival studios, principally Disney and Universal.

In a room with a seemingly new carpet, its floral pattern echoed on the spotless wallpaper, a woman lies in an unnaturally stiff position on a grimy studio couch.

Both faced stiff competition from Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and SeaWorld, which all reported record crowds -- anywhere from 65,000 to 90,000 in all -- on New Year's Eve, the day Splendid China closed.

He thought the two previous studio albums, Ballbreaker and Stiff Upper Lip, were blues-influenced.

Hard graft, wariness of high-ups and sympathy for working stiffs became his compass points.After the studio system weakened in the late 1940s, big stars and independent producers came into their own.

He sat in a stiff plastic chair, with his back to the studio's mirror, and thirty dancers sat on the floor opposite him, stretching their legs and kneading their arches, but listening.