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370 examples of Stiff in a sentence

The dialogs were stiff and sometimes the story wasn't really conclusive.
Mr. Keen gets stiff competition from tall, dark, and handsome Ivor Novello (as Jonathan Drew), who arrives on the scene as "The Lodger" at the home of Marie Ault and Arthur Chesney (as Mr. and Mrs. Bunting).
The acting is wooden, stiff, and heartless.
Some of the acting seemed a little stiff, what is it with Kostner that he always comes off like he's got his lines memorized, and he's trying to remember them?
It takes a few stiff drinks and the Satellite of Love to sit through this one.
Despite some stiff competition, from Sopranos to Six Feet Under, there is probably no show on television which shows Americans and their sense of family and community better than Deadwood.
The story of the seasick prodigy of a navel family and his attempts to keep a British "stiff upper lip" in the face of adversity is endearing and hilarious.
Lame plot, stiff acting, bad direction, amateur camera-work... Have I forgotten anything?
For the most part, the less important characters were portrayed in an adequate manner, although there were some lines that were delivered in a stiff manner and a few lines were overdone.
Some of the settings were atmospheric and the acting was pretty good (although the main villain is kind of stiff he's suitably despicable).
The stiff acting, and lack of direction, combined with preachy dialogue, deliver a picture reminiscent of an Ed Wood production.
The acting was uniformly stiff and annoying, and the background music was appalling.
As time and her illness progresses, Miss Dove, best known to the small town as a rigid and stiff disciplinarian, realizes the positive effects she has had on the people around her, and their love for her.
Friend of the good guy-standard, stiff, shallow character.
This film had the sad history of being blackballed in the United States due to the incident at Columbine...which is a real shame, because it is a treasure...written and directed by Troy Duffy, Boondocks is set in Boston...it is the story of fraternal twin Irish boys (Connor and Murphy McManus) who work in a meat packing plant...when their friend, Doc, is being stiff armed by the Russian Mafia, the boys and their friends step in to help...and away we go!
The Zombies/Vampires are like Cardboard cutouts, fake stiff dummies with NO movement whatsoever!
The acting for the most part is stiff from just about everyone with the exception of Louise Fletcher, she was the only one who seemed to bother to act and she wasn't that good either.
The actors behave far too freely and with hardly any attempt at the formal dignity, stiff social restraint of the time, and no apparent attempt to represent the social mores and customs of the era.
The acting is not very good (the actors are very stiff and seem to be reading verbatim from cue cards, the quality of filming and cinematography is pretty poor, and the plot literally does not make sense (why do they need to train women to be human animals if they just want someone's kidneys?
The acting was very stiff and the editing was bad.
The severely dated production values and stiff performances by the actors immediately calls to mind another 'educational' gem of the era - "Reefer Madness".
The cyborgs themselves are just a bunch of terribly stiff beefcakes in gymsuits, and are as convincing as they are menacing (ie not at all).
Acting was stiff and transparent.
He perfectly blends all these different traits and is utterly convincing in portraying the outward stiffness as a simple facade for the strong emotions and character underneath, rather than simply being stiff and wooden.
The main actor is very stiff and his voice is dubbed throughout the movie.
I was scared stiff then but now look back on the memories and laugh.
others may include: who decided the perfect soldier is a slow, clumsy, awkward animatronic plastic man with no lower jaw? if it is as easy to get to Mexico as driving through a single 15-foot fence that falls over in a stiff breeze, why did they bother to try to go through customs?
We regard firms as legal persons, and we talk about countries as if they were a composite person with clear characteristics: Germans love order, Italians are passionate, and Brits possess a stiff upper lip.
Lagarde’s competition in this category is not particularly stiff.
However, the Uyghur desire for independence met with stiff Chinese resistance.
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