Miss New York State stood rigidly, once grasping at the hand of Miss North Dakota.
Polite uniformed coach attendants stood rigidly at attention outside the pine-green cars, but no one asked to see my expensively acquired permit for travel in Tibet.
The former Gestapo colonel, convicted in December as a central pillar in the Nazi plot to exterminate European Jewry, stood rigidly at attention as the five justices of the court filed to the bench to hear his appeal.
Moshe stood rigidly in the corner His lifeless green eyes stared at nobody and nothing.
A man stands rigidly behind a desk, his eyes locked on its empty surface.
They stand, rigidly, as something of a metaphor for the greater distance that Mr. Bush, in comparison with Mr. McCain, keeps between himself and chance encounters.
Now, Shinn's portrayals of early-20th-century life outside the hotel can be viewed the way he intended: tiny white lights glow in windows, ice-blue snow glistens on squiggly branches, a horse stands rigidly on a sheet of ice and stately women stroll along Central Park South with fashionable smudges of red on their lips.
In "Grande Jatte" (not in this show), for instance, the largest figures in the painting, a man and woman dressed in their Sunday best, stand rigidly like figures leading a procession near the right edge of the canvas, surveying a dreamlike tableau of adults, children and their pets in what appears to be arrested motion.
RIYAQ, Lebanon — On a Bekaa Valley playing field gilded by late-afternoon sun, hundreds of young men wearing Boy Scout-style uniforms and kerchiefs stand rigidly at attention as a military band plays, its marchers bearing aloft the distinctive yellow banner of Hezbollah, the militant Shiite movement.
This idea that we all stand rigidly and salute when God Save the Queen comes on and secretly think rationing is all right is as insulting as any national stereotype, which is why it's so weird that we foist it on ourselves – if it didn't fit the cliche so neatly I'd be offended.
When not speaking, the vice president stood stiffly at attention, feet together, hands rigidly at his sides, to remind us visually of his service in Vietnam.
