Ravi Bopara pushed stiffly to second slip, Greg Smith was bowled poking forward at his first ball, and Ben Foakes unimpressed to be given out leg before for another golden duck as Groenewald, a 30-year-old South African who has settled in the Midlands, exploited inevitable spring moisture to show again what a shrewd signing he has been from Warwickshire.
"Cuba's president has taken appropriate steps in accordance with his prerogatives and powers," he wrote stiffly in a letter released on January 26th.
In a stiffly worded communiqué, he congratulated the new premier on her minority government, but warned: "We do not believe that Quebeckers wish to revisit the old constitutional battles of the past".
He would skip and stumble to play little Penny carrying a slithering cat in "The Rescuers", or tilt stiffly from side to side like a waiter-penguin from "Mary Poppins".All these vignettes, performed in his 80s with a young man's grace, had come from decades of observation.
Some poets read their poems out loud as if they'd just shaken hands with them for the first time, stiffly, and with a slight tremor of awkwardness.
When people could not see that, she was stiffly angry.
The bank says stiffly that it has given tax-dodgers "no systematic assistance".
DEEP in the pine forest of east Texas, a middle-aged couple sat stiffly on a bench.
Parts of it, such as the judiciary, the diplomatic corps, state-run media and varied branches of intelligence, proved stiffly resistant to Islamist influence.
While the Chiracs pose for Paris-Match seated stiffly in the Elysée Palace garden, the Sarkozys have their photos taken pounding the beach in jogging gear.In short, if Mr Sarkozy's popularity outstrips both Mr Chirac's and that of other centre-right politicians (see chart 1), it is because he embodies something different.
Of the 82-year-old patriarch, Albert Thornton seated stiffly next to his wife in the essay's opening image Wallace notes (with apparent approval) that, despite his frustrations, "he has no violence in him".Shorn of their mediating text, the photographs are more evocative, laying bare the human cost of an inhumane regime.
