stiff

Ney said McDonnell needs to “keep a stiff lip” and stay in close contact with family members.

Her pallid young face, brow sweating with fear and pain, yet resolute and stiff with sorrow, makes you want to cry.

FDR wanted to project easy grace rather than stiff formality—especially when communicating complicated matters.

Perhaps, though, it is best that the big awful secret remains hidden from the public, out of Working Stiff and everywhere else.

He is in his late forties; intelligent, people say, but stiff and restrained, an eternal bachelor.

But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.

MacRae's heels clicked together and his right hand went up in the stiff military salute.

I kept a stiff backbone for a while, but presently a futile rage against circumstances bubbled up and boiled over.

He braced himself unconsciously, and after Zeal's next words did not relax his body, although his lips turned white and stiff.

If he had cut her, he would have shown less contempt than in that stiff raising of the hat.