Sentence examples for was stiffly from inspiring English sources

When people could not see that, she was stiffly angry.

The conversation was stiffly respectful; the guard was smiling weakly, clinging to his scruples.

Unlike my Teddy bear, who was capable of irony, this doll — her name was Teenager — was stiffly humorless.

He was stiffly polite and accommodating, but he had yet to learn how disarming a forced chuckle could be.

Leaving the capital by the Porte St-Jacques, his stage-coach was stiffly sprung, had unyielding seats, was likely overcrowded and offered only leather straps for comfort and support.

Down by the pool, a woman with long, thick black hair — it was stiffly unkempt, like a madwoman's in a movie — sat in a deck chair with her back to Loomis, watching two children play in the water.

They are stiffly frozen, bright and stark.

By the early 21st century, rational choice theory was being stiffly challenged.

The hand is stiffly, not to say clumsily, painted.

All of those measures would be stiffly resisted by Senate Democrats and the White House.

Of these four, only the latter is very contentious; it is stiffly opposed by the Germans.