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370 examples of Stiff in a sentence

In Dragnet he was quite stiff I'll admit, though not as bad as George Raft, but he used it only to effect in "The D. I."
While his scenes with the local love interest are a tad stiff and don't generate enough heat to melt butter, he compliments Costner well.
Peter Finch, a very stiff actor, Liv Ullmann, gorgeous as ever, Sally Kellerman, surprisingly good voice, Michael York, typical, and Olivia Hussey, stunning, all convinced me they were normal run of the mill people.
Cummings is likable if somewhat stiff in the lead.
I watched this expecting to see the usual British stiff upper lip stereotypes and was surprised to find the dialogue remarkably natural and tinged with black humour.
i get that, although i think the wife is a bit stiff in her role - and not convincingly attracted to the "stranger" - so that's a failing - the unspoken bonding between the Rickman character and the "stranger" is better done, even if we are not sure what it is.
I've heard a lot of different opinions about this film and then to find out that Paris Hilton was in it as well didn't give Me the best impression of the film .... then to be dragged to the cinema by a group of my friends and sit there expecting a pile of pants i was shocked to find that i was scared stiff all the way through the film ... it was predictable yes but the build up of the deaths and the whole atmosphere of the film made it REALLY scary for me ... i was watching through my fingers the whole way through.
In the immediate aftermath, Bill gets acquainted with Joe Curran (Peter Boyle), an ultra-right-wing, rabidly racist working stiff.
Purdom is admittedly a bit stiff in the lead role, but one can accept this as part of Sinuhe's character.
The movie is a masterpiece with Chayefsky's script earning a well-deserved Oscar (over such stiff competition as KLUTE & Sunday, BLOODY Sunday).
The action scenes are stiff, almost too staged.
The story is a tremendous bore, involving a subject which itself bores bores me stiff: religious guilt.
It certainly looks good, but the twist finish is colorlessly handled and the cast (including Peter Lorre and Broderick Crawford) is just a bit stiff.
The Habanera from Carmen sounded a bit weird at times, too, and the way it was rearranged at the end just shows how little the producers really think of classical music - it's stiff and boring but hey, add some drums and electric guitars and it's almost as good as Britney Spears!
Not the actors' fault, but the writer/director, producers, financiers, etc., need a very stiff talking to.
The story gets to the point that you just want everyone to shut up and die as quickly as possible so you don't have to listen to them talk this very muted, stiff dialogue.
The acting was high school drama quality, with stiff wooden delivery, as though the actors were reading from cue cards without comprehending their lines.
All of them looked perfectly stiff and resigned, as if, by putting forth as little effort as possible, they expected to fade unnoticed into lovely period sets.
The acting is stiff, the stock generic soundtrack is laughable, the direction is bland and strangest of all, the teacher really isn't all that attractive (making the student's blatant advances all the more awkward).
Ironically, although he can do the "splits", Thomas is a complete stiff as an actor.
It's a downright boring movie, the acting is terrible, the writing dull, and obviously a first-time director, because it's stiff.
The plot is absurd and the acting excruciatingly stiff and amateurish.
By the time these things happened, I was already bored stiff and the devices were completely ineffective.
However, aside from the forced coupling of gymnastics and martial arts, the bad dubbing, the stiff dialog, and the outrageously difficult story-line, the film has some things going for it.
This was a silly movie with a predictable storyline and dreadful acting!! Willy Nelson was as stiff as his braids.
The second branch was too stiff to be funny.
Without hesitation he walked me over to "Lucky Stiff."
Jordan kirckland was really stiff, almost icy.
The script is so so laughable... this in turn, makes the actors' lines sound stiff and unrealistic and not to be believed.
The acting is wooden and stiff and the writing is just so cliché, but not at all in a good way.
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