The crummy carpet beneath his feet is stiff, but it's the stiffness that helps hold him up — especially if he's had too much to drink.
Physically, chi kung has helped to relieve the stiffness that comes with old age.
It's just basically the neck and the stiffness that is the biggest thing".
Compared with Billy Jenkins it is less jazzy, with the slight stiffness that can dog both progressive rock and improvisation.
Baritone Sir Thomas Allen was often outstanding, too, but some of the other performers had a stiffness that made you long for the celluloid originals.
Though there's a certain stiffness that comes with all of this, there is little pretension, and it feels luxurious to get away from the plastic tablecloths that so often accompany authenticity in Italy.
Or look at Phoenix, lifting his head high and proud, as Brando used to do, with an added, cranky stiffness that comes from having, or being, a serious pain in the neck.
Sam and Dave seem genuinely at ease – there's none of the Madame Tussauds stiffness that characterised many of the Blairs' purpose-posed Christmas efforts – but it's also a little smug.
He did not look comfortable jogging to first base, and he said he felt the same "stiffness" that knocked him out of Monday's game.
Rodriguez did not appear in the clubhouse after the game to explain the left calf stiffness that forced him out after four innings.
One patient was found to have knee stiffness that did not require further surgery.
