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If it did fall off, she would dive and rescue it, and she battled stiff currents to do this.
In those days, one hid much else as well: grown men didn't embrace one another, unless someone had died, and not always then; you shook hands or, at a ball game, thumped your friend's back and exchanged blows meant to be codes for affection; once out of childhood you'd never again know the shock of your father's whiskers on your cheek, not until mores at last had evolved, and you could hug another man, then hold on for a moment, then even kiss (your fathers bristles white and stiff now).
We figured out a kind of a digital inkjet printer for this very stiff, strong, carbon-composite material, and then ways to thermoform it, because it's a combination of carbon and nylon, into whatever complex shapes you want, like the one just shown at the auto show by one of the tier-one suppliers.
But are stiff, creaky joints really inevitable?
With this data and new computing technology, engineers could model how stiff the soil was, the tower’s trajectory, and the exact amount of excavation needed for the tower to remain standing.
I found the acting stiff and unbelievable.
Ill-tempered, verbally abusive movie studio chief runs his male assistant ragged with nit-picking requests, keeping the young man firmly under his thumb with constant threats of unemployment; after a year of office-terror, the working stiff finally cracks.
John Phillip Law and Don Stroud are both stiff in their acting and miscast for their roles.
Now there this friend of his, tailing him around every where, and this number one lawyer in the town, who has to herself sexily wiggle and try to seduce Himesh, of all the handsome German people she might have met earlier, perhaps the male lawyers on this part of the world might be cursing their fate, for destined to deal with the stiff, unattractive lot, every day !
no actors, just some stupid low-grade models who have for sure no idea what they are doing, stiff as wood.
The dialogues are slow and stiff.
It's virtually a compendium of what was wrong with the earliest talkies: stiff direction, immobile cameras, stagy acting and ridiculously slow-paced delivery of lines.
Instead it's just a bland, plodding and meandering stiff that never catches fire or becomes even remotely amusing in a so-shoddy-it's-smoking sort of way.
Matt Dillon, a fine, intense actor is totally miscast here and is stiff and mannered.
Once he goes native, he starts speaking a very stiff, stilted English, and half the time, he seems kind of distracted, as if he'd just smoked some of the bounty of Borneo's rain forest.
But in spite of that single fact, this is not a bad little thriller, considering the low budget, the low quality effects, the stiff acting and the Sci Fi Channel aspects.
Perhaps this square scenario might've benefited from some magical whimsy, for this script is a frozen stiff.
The acting in this film was of the old school: corny and stiff.
Not only can Miranda not act convincingly enough, but she's incredibly stiff when she moves.
Remove Abbott and Costello from the cast and you've got a badly colored movie, stiff cardboard from the casting department, badly dubbed sound (especially during the singing!) and annoying dialog (ex.
Just what we need, a fat stiff who THINKS he's a leading man.
Ok, if you like yer monster moovies sullen, stiff, starchy, and thunderously dull, but with lots of throttling, then head right for "Lady Frankenstein", a stagy, costumy Italian corpse-walker.
He's way too stiff for a character that's supposed to be a chameleon.
Jerri Manthey should of stayed on survival island her acting is stiff, unbelievable and she just a plain boor.
The acting is generally stiff, without any range or depth of feeling; even Christopher Walken is bad.
Tom Everett Scott's performance is stiff and tiresome.
In Focus, he plays the role of Lawrence Newman, a loyal and hard-working stiff, who harbours his handicapped mother at home.
Peter Boyle makes this film with his foul mouthed boorish portrayal of a working class stiff "Joe" in love with the past and fearful of the future and worried about the present.
Peter Boyle, a well-known liberal, is incredible as the hard-assed working stiff who has a few problems with the younger generation.
Nonetheless, there are some tense and interesting points here and there, the surprise meetings with German soldiers and Gestapo agents, where Dietrich does a great palm reading and Milland nearly as good faking one, and a dinner party of Germans of various stripes at which the announcement comes over the radio that Germany had been attacked by Poland and everyone stands and does a stiff arm salute.
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