Sentence examples for stood rigid from inspiring English sources

While all the other couples stood rigid and grim, the Blairs were seen holding hands and laughing and chatting animatedly.

The 27-year-old stood rigid, jaw muscles clenched, hands folded in front of him, and stared straight ahead.

Mr. Tran stood rigid, awestruck, on the stage of Radio City Music Hall, responding with a timid wave to his boss, Katherine Wankel, who cheered and jumped up and down in the audience.

In this "primitive incantation," he danced a tender duet with Brown, strutted, flailed, leapt, stood rigid, crashed to the floor, and finally thrashed and kicked inside a plastic bag in a finale that was, in the words of the choreographer Kenneth King, "archly existential, also profoundly and magically mysterious".

We stood rigid as we got our instructions on how to caucus, and it turns into a popularity contest.

At Diaz's side, officers stood rigid and solemn, looking straight ahead or straight down.

It seems right that Germont should stand rigid, while Violetta flutters like a broken-winged sparrow.

Occasionally there is a sudden pause in the music, and the dancers stand rigid until the music resumes.

As Boo-Seng stands rigid, unable to face the next moment, Jerry gently prods him: "Mr. Lee?

There's an artichoke pie the size of a manhole cover on a crust so thick and sturdy it stands rigid even under a blanket of mozzarella and a slathering of the garlicky artichoke-and-spinach dip that cooks ladle out from a big white bucket.

Ask for the grace to bend -- if you stand rigid, life will surely break you.