Why is Travis Scott hunched over and clapping so stiffly?
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"Can I sleep over at your place?" she asked stiffly.
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Perplexed, he stood holding it stiffly away from his body.
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"There can only ever be one Margaret Thatcher," she said stiffly.
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"You will always get honesty from me," Mr. Long answers, stiffly.
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He sat stiffly in a chair in the corner of the room.
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I nod stiffly and pull the loose black shift over my head.
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"I don't know quite how to respond to that," he answered stiffly.
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Their resigned body language is more eloquent than their stiffly delivered lines.
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We bowed stiffly also, for some of us had never bowed before.
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Eventually Corkin and I said goodbye, exchanged handshakes, stiffly wished each other well.
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PARIS — They shook hands politely and patted each other on the arm stiffly.
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At 81, he moves more stiffly than the Stone of NASA archival footage.
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Jeb swallowed back some phlegm, moved stiffly to the couch, and sat down.
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It also dries too stiffly, and is too toxic to use inside the body.
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By contrast, although his follower's work is a later painting it seems stiffly medieval.
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"Well that is not our role — we won't play that role," he replied stiffly.
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He stood stiffly, swallowing hard, his hands clasped tightly in front of his chest.
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Her jaw was clenched shut, and she held her arms stiffly at her side.
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Riders towered awkwardly over pedestrians, standing stiffly with their feet together as they whirred along.
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I forced my eyes open and saw everyone around me stiffly swaying in a trance.
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Buffett's musical rhetoric is like if "Hakuna Matata" was stiffly blended and served over ice.
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As the lights came up, Mr. Marclay materialized from the shadows, blinked and bowed stiffly.
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Mr. Finlay moved stiffly and shakily from position to position with no sense of fortitude.
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The A.I.-powered camera follows users as they move, letting them converse without sitting stiffly.
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Back then, they stood stiffly by their instruments in near darkness, barely acknowledging the audience.
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When I arrived, the family stood to greet me, and assembled stiffly by the door.
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And his comments on the ACA were read stiffly, in a subdued manner, from a teleprompter.
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That's why Nixon's presidency is often remembered for stiffly posed photos with people like Elvis Presley.
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Maddy is stiffly rocking from side to side, her arms still folded up inside her dress.
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I watched him walk with it, a little stiffly, past the Moreton Bay fig tree outside.
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Mr. Jammeh has stiffly ruled the nation for 22 years since seizing power in a coup.
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Wendy is sitting stiffly with Jock and his wife, having the most awkward pre-dinner conversation ever.
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When June returns to that beautiful-boned, ivy-covered house, the Waterfords greet her stiffly and formally.
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When young, this phallic inflorescence is one or two feet long, orange-brown, and points stiffly upward.
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With the new moon on Friday, your guard is up as you stiffly resist changes at home.
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He came to a stop, then stiffly placed the ball on the turf and robotically walked away.
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With great negotiation, we got him situated, his feet floating upward as he stiffly tried to recline.
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He is caught mid-lurch, his hands reaching stiffly out in front of him, his tongue wagging.
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Hatice was headscarved and devout; hand in hand they strolled round the city, conversing stiffly in classical Arabic.
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The participants stiffly act out rituals, realizing — no matter how pious they are — these are unnatural, manufactured pairings.
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It is she whom he embraces, stiffly and self-consciously, in a genuinely affecting moment of tentative connection.
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"I've never seen you in a suit before," Reva said stiffly when she came out of the bathroom.
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Gray, who had no previous driving infractions, sat stiffly in a gray blazer and a crisp white shirt.
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The six men stood stiffly in dark suits on the stage, each bowing as Mr. Xi introduced them.
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What we're really watching, though, is no less than a stiffly depressing portrait of toffee-nosed child abuse.
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The actors do their best, but they're forever fighting against cringe-worthy dialogue and stiffly orchestrated action scenes.
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The imagery is grossly disturbing, stiffly formal, and also funny — gags in more than one sense of the word.
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In one particularly affecting moment, a snippet of "Comfortably Numb" can be heard as América lies stiffly in bed.
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Both seem even more stylized than the one at the piano, moving stiffly, like paper dolls brought to life.
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Arranged behind cardboard cutouts of cars, they look crammed and unnatural, their arms resting stiffly on makeshift steering wheels.
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Magesa was more serious and stood stiffly as the prosthetist tugged at his harness straps and tightened its buckles.
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At another point in the season, she was photographed standing stiffly and unsmiling as she watched young ballerinas perform.
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But Mr. Trump read stiffly from a teleprompter and his words lacked the rhetorical flourishes of other wartime presidents.
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Ms. Bloomfield said nothing in public except for a few stiffly worded apologies that were widely criticized as inadequate.
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When taking a photo of your kid, let her play with the ball instead of sitting stiffly for your lens.
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I spent half the night locked in the bathroom, crying, and the other half sleeping stiffly next to my husband.
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Later on in the episode, Joseph and Eleanor sit stiffly on the couch and listen to his old mix tapes.
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He softly pounded his erect right hand into his limp left claw, his face stiffly locked into a half-smile.
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The judge grew robotic at times under Ms. MacCallum's scrutiny, reverting to talking points and reacting stiffly to her questions.
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Aaron Holland Broussard, as he stiffly introduces himself, is a teenager ensnared by a bipolar mother and an alcoholic father.
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The win came in the midst of a stiffly competitive category featuring veterans and newcomers alike — and a few legendary faces.
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He kept his eyes tightly shut, as if trying to block out the rows of dignitaries in suits stiffly watching on.
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Some strapless bras are stiffly shaped and seemingly spiked with Victorian era corset underwire that I feel breathless from ribcage constriction.
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" — angami " I spent half the night locked in the bathroom, crying, and the other half sleeping stiffly next to my husband.
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"Cuba's president has taken steps in accordance with his prerogatives and powers," he wrote stiffly in a letter published in 2015.
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So I try to find my most stylish outfit, swapping out shirts and pants and then posing stiffly for the camera.
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As I walked, I often held my left my arm slightly behind me, stiffly, as if on call to provide balance.
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Still, after a hard day's cycling, he discovered that his arms were stiffly angled into backward wings — his sleeves had frozen.
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The dark-suited artists almost merge with the dark background, while their stiffly painted hands, faces and hair treatments, stand out.
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The girl was there in black rubber boots and a glossy yellow raincoat, its hood hovering stiffly over her darkened face.
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"If you threaten a nation, then what should you expect, a stiffly-worded letter to be sent by Korea," Gorka said.
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Completely forfeiting mainstream life, they punish each other grotesquely for romantic intimacy, posing stiffly as couples to infiltrate the city for supplies.
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The two committee heads stood stiffly next to one another throughout the press conference, each providing answers through two subtly different lenses.
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After she stiffly complies, Mr. Bush demands, over her obvious discomfort, that she choose which man she would prefer for a date.
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We sat in a little triangle, my husband sitting stiffly and my boyfriend leaning back as if to give us more room.
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Without mentioning President Donald Trump by name, Cuomo gave a press conference that stiffly rebuked the Trump administration's response to the pandemic.
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"If you threaten a nation, then what should you expect — a stiffly worded letter that would be sent by courier?" he said.
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The robe opens at his chest, revealing a pale, unflattering paunch, about which his hands cross stiffly as though girding his loins.
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In 2012 Jackson County, of which Seymour is part, gave the Republican presidential candidate, the stiffly patrician Mitt Romney, 62% of its votes.
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The catalog includes a photo of two stiffly posed male models, both gazing wistfully into a future that may involve crew neck shirts.
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It triggered some military reflex in Allen, who nodded stiffly and waved at the maître d', making a show about inspecting Kulagin's wound.
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He smiles stiffly, gun already cocked as his elevator's doors open onto the very same murderer who kidnapped his son five years ago.
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CreditCreditMark Makela for The New York Times PATERSON, N.J. — Brenda Pitts sat stiffly in an emergency room cubicle, her face contorted by pain.
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The candidate explained that he had his best conversations when he was walking around instead of sitting stiffly in front of a camera.
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The candidate explained that he had his best conversations when he was walking around instead of sitting stiffly in front of a camera.
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Instead of standing stiffly behind a lectern, Ms. Bernier put on dramatic evening performances like scenes from a one-woman show on Broadway.
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She walked stiffly, stumping along with her cane, sometimes stopping to poke it at something on the lawn or in the flower beds.
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"Proper and polite and private is our style/ Never, ever talk on a train," belted Ms. Mede, arms locked stiffly at her sides.
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The brisk, slightly swinging walk, the stiffly held arms, the tight shoulders and clenched smile, all carried the mark of Vietnam like one scar.
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His leg is marked and pocked, and he sits stiffly on the ground inside their tent, with one lumpy foot stretched out before him.
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Eric Trump tweeted a picture of himself posing stiffly with Yuengling, the person, in front of a plastic-wrapped pallet of Yuengling, the beer.
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More specifically: Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes, which usually involved people off Coronation Street stiffly moving through theatre school choreography with tangible self-awareness.
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In 2012, for example, after his mission to help the cranes, he was seen walking unusually stiffly at a Group of 20 summit meeting.
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Meanwhile, two South Korean soldiers stood stiffly on the north end of the room, their arms bent at the elbows and their fists clenched.
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In the "Order and Hierarchy" room, imperial ceremonial robes are hung stiffly, by order of rank, in contrast to walls lined with thatched hay.
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But it's not a flawless system, especially now that "fake news" is often interpreted by humans as news that doesn't reaffirm their stiffly-held beliefs.
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But there he is 30 years ago, smiling today's smile, as he stands stiffly amid a flock of his sisters on the otherwise deserted beach.
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When they first enter the room for their photo op, there's a split second where Merkel stiffly raises her right hand preparing to grab Trump's.
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There is Thomas Jefferson, whose regal jacket does not hide the screw where his hand should be, and Abraham Lincoln, sitting stiffly in his chair.
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After about an hour, the creators were ushered into the auditorium, where Secret Service agents stood stiffly amid bohemian-chic floor cushions and sheepskin rugs.
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The new terms and data policy came with a stiffly-worded blog post from Facebook chief privacy officer Erin Egan and deputy general counsel Ashlie Beringer.
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If your hands are hidden under a table or stiffly placed inside your pockets, it can be challenging for the other person to process your intention.
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The upstairs has a similar layout that allows for the display of art while still feeling intimate, rather than stiffly formal like typical white cube spaces.
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But I also love teaching Greek tragedy — it's at once so formally strange, so stiffly stylized and yet (of course) so eternally relevant in its themes.
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On his 100th day in office, in a Soviet-era palace adorned with Cossack art, Mr. Yanukovych stiffly briefed the nation, laying out his economic plan.
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Look into history and see the piercing eyes of James Madison, with wiry gray hair and a tributary of wrinkles along his brow, staring stiffly back.
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I vaguely recall seeing a couple of stage versions of Masters's book in my childhood, where people in old-timey costumes stood stiffly and recited ominously.
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Instead of stiffly rotating in each direction, the base, middle segment and head work as a team to create the illusion of a tiny, armless robot body.
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Instead, after swimming around in the boozy water, the crayfish adopt this upright posture, hold up their abdomens for a few seconds, and stiffly extend their legs.
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In 22016 Fredrik Reinfeldt, a former prime minister and then still leader of the centre-right Moderates, described the SD's leadership as "racists and the stiffly xenophobic".
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The work is enchanting, but ends with a disappointingly crude CGI narwhal swimming a bit too stiffly — a letdown after the drenching beauty up to that point.
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He looked disapproving, stiffly leading the way upstairs, as though he thought her unworthy to be allowed anywhere farther than the lowest floor where the gym was.
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Often, there can be a certain rhythm to the congressional mega-event: the camera clicks, the slow walk to the witness chair, some stiffly delivered prepared remarks.
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The men try their best to look as intimidating as possible, walking around so stiffly it's like they're clenching their butts to contain all the hate inside.
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Besides, the cheesy badness of the special effects and stiffly dubbed dialogue were part of what made the old Japanese imports fun in a goofy sort of way.
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On Thursday, Hillary Clinton made a plea to the alt-comedy kids by going on Zach Galifianakis's Between Two Ferns and stiffly worked her way through some jokes.
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Hanging around to sort out mom's affairs, she interacts stiffly and uncomfortably with her buttoned-up stepfather (a wonderful John Rothman), while learning secrets about her mother's past.
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If you need to wear a VR headset while sitting stiffly on the sofa in your gorgeously empty apartment, posing for an Anthropologie catalog, there's no better choice.
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Another uphill battle: Insurance Although Kozel was able to walk stiffly with an old pair of braces, they wouldn't help her walk comfortably enough to embrace the outdoors.
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Plath's letters to Beuscher, whom she stiffly addresses as "Dr." throughout, sometimes assume the tone of a psychiatric appointment, where candor and speculation, fact and hunch, are twinned.
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As Wilson points to the camera and Brown's smile lights up the screen, Eli stiffly walks offscreen shaking his head, wondering how he found himself in this position.
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Welcomed stiffly by the poet, De Quincey made a far better impression on his sister Dorothy, who come to appreciate his shy, polite manner, and his way with children.
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The Brutalist architecture and cold sterility of the building suggests Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville, and the polished futurism and stiffly remote characters are reminiscent of François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451.
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A good friend of mine said she detested Shibata for working too stiffly with other wrestlers and that she's never enjoyed watching someone get legitimately hit like he does.
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"The decision to lift the ban was not based on China or any other considerations," he said, with the Vietnamese president, Tran Dai Quang, standing stiffly by his side.
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A generically Fauvist portrait of Diego painted that year pictures a dapper, stiffly alert young man, standing straight in a way that feels faintly prophetic of Giacometti's eventual sculpture.
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When rising R&B musician H.E.R. was ten years old, she sat stiffly at a piano while an adult woman leaned over to wrap her in an awkward hug.
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South Korea's presidency urged North Korea to refrain from further action in one of the most stiffly-worded statements since the two Koreas embarked on reconciliation efforts early last year.
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Under the glare of fluorescent lights, the party started quietly, with everyone dressed in their formal clothes and stiffly sharing a potluck of traditional Somali foods eaten on paper plates.
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At the Trident Grill II restaurant that night, Mr. Zamora placed his hand on her left thigh, and she sat up stiffly and moved away, she said in police reports.
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But even on the big screen there were moments of disconnect when your brain realizes the younger faces don't exactly match with how stiffly the bodies of older men move.
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South Korea's presidency urged North Korea to refrain from further action in one of the most stiffly-worded statements since the two Koreas embarked on reconciliation efforts early last year.
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Helberg has the long sad mug of a mime and the body of a boy; instead of strolling, he seems to hover along, with his hands held stiffly by his side.
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By early September, the overlooked mounds of dark green leaves sprout dozens of flowering stems, which are held stiffly upright from each leaf node as if they were bleached and starched.
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" Released as an ill-advised single, it recalls the Edwardian era with this line: "In 1910, I was so handsome and so strong / My mustache was stiffly waxed and one foot long.
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Arthur Currie, 70, a resident at the Royal Hospital Chelsea for veterans of the British Army, said his relatives sit more stiffly in the passenger seat when he gets behind the wheel.
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Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, are aiming to pass a repeal bill in the first 100 days of Trump's administration, though the party remains stiffly divided over when it should go into effect.
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Like anyone his age, De Niro moves in a way that prioritizes stability: His elbows stay tucked protectively near his ribs, and his feet jab stiffly out without disturbing his center of gravity.
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Avedon revolutionized the field; he brought an end to the era of the docile mannequin posing stiffly in this season's clothes — his women leapt off the page; they danced and tumbled and communicated.
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This prompts Susan to get lunch with her stiffly Southern, upper-class mother (Laura Linney, rocking the bouffant-and-pearls look like no one else), who cautions her not to make any hasty decisions.
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One distinct charm of the current production is how the highly talented actor-singers who play those roles strut a little stiffly or manage a nifty soft shoe as they deliver the old songs.
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A decade later, the pain radiates to her right knee and remains largely unaddressed, so deep and searing that on a recent day she sat stiffly on her couch, her curtains drawn, for hours.
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John Adams and James Madison, old men, hobbled into constitutional conventions in Massachusetts and Virginia, where they sat, stiffly, and endured the declamations of long-whiskered shavers and strivers, the lovers of the People.
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The only way I can describe it is to say that Looking Glass looks like a mid-'90s video game featuring full-motion video, where actors move stiffly in front of fake, obviously digital backgrounds.
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The video—similar in aesthetic tone to her last visual, for "New York"—is bright, bold, and deliberate, with Clark herself moving stiffly, like a mannequin, and kind of made up to resemble one too.
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If your head experiences abrupt rotational acceleration or impact—in less than 50 milliseconds, or about the time a single frame is shown during a standard movie—axons behave stiffly, like ripped apart silly putty.
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At a recent battle scene rehearsal for "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker," Tenzin, lying stiffly on his back, stifled a giggle as Ines Gout — the Marie to his Prince — ran her hands above his supine form.
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Politics may have once struck the ultrarich as a ponderous, ladder-climbing pursuit for stiffly programmed former class presidents, but President Trump has demonstrated that it can at least be tried on one's own terms.
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We liked to imagine that we had seen each other on the bus as children, stiffly bundled in the winter or swinging our legs impatiently in the summer, had maybe even clung to the same pole.
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The exhibition opens with a fragment of red silk, dating to around A.D. 800 and lent from the Vatican, whose floral rosettes enclose the enthroned Mary, sitting stiffly as the archangel Gabriel delivers some big news.
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Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders, too, harried Mr. Bloomberg for his policing strategies in New York, questioning his sensitivities on matters of race in a manner Mr. Bloomberg defended stiffly and in incomplete or misleading terms.
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The crackdown was such a hot topic that Andrew Hawkins of the Cleveland Browns celebrated a touchdown by stiffly placing the ball on the turf and robotically walking away in a nod to the tough rules.
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In Concord earlier this month, before the big finish, he'd started off quite stiffly, reading off teleprompters through weak speakers to a crowd that had already waited on linoleum through three introductions and the pledge of allegiance.
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But imagine how much better it'll look in action: rippling as Cap flies through the air to punch a bad guy, rustling as Cap strokes it thoughtfully, standing stiffly at attention while Cap delivers an inspirational speech.
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If there's one trademark image from Letterkenny, it's of the main character, Wayne (played by series creator Jared Keeso), standing stiffly in the center of the frame, pontificating in a deadpan rural accent on some common life experience.
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James and Riley have been handed some strong, enduring characters that fit comfortably in a horror retelling, and while they both play them stiffly, a little stiffness works reasonably well with the characters' attempts to repress their emotions.
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Tables are set with stiffly pressed napkins and thin-stemmed wineglasses — a cue to pay attention to Daniel Beedle's list, which is well stocked with aromatic whites and savory reds that know how to get along with layered spices.
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A longstanding joke at the conference is a game of "spot the Fed," where attendees see someone who moves a little too stiffly, or stares a little too intently, and might be either a government recruiter — or law enforcement.
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To get an off-season taste, pop into the Casa dos Bonecos Gigantes (House of the Giant Puppets), where some of the traditional papier-mâché puppets that stiffly swing through the crowds during Carnaval are stored (entry 15 reais).
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Picturing the First World War Even in this stiffly staged picture, made decades before candid photography was possible, unfeigned joy comes through in the faces of the women we might assume to be Mère (center) and Grand-Mère (right).
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Years later, I joyfully slid behind the wheel of my first exotic — a Lamborghini Countach in the 2562s — and emerged from a long drive thinking: Who on earth could live with a car this cramped, loud and stiffly sprung?
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Unfolding like a clunky episode of "Law & Order," the biblical procedural "Risen" confronts the Resurrection through the stiffly skeptical countenance of Joseph Fiennes, who takes on the role of Clavius, a Roman army tribune, as if it were a life sentence.
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My rationale was that you're more inclined to feel comfortable with your date when you are interacting in a playful setting, such as mini golf, instead of sitting stiffly at a five-star restaurant, nervous about spilling a drop of soup.
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As an aristocrat, tall in his double-breasted suits, he could do stiffly jut-jawed one moment, warm and charming the next: a study in inscrutability, or a witty ornament to the highest social tier of Newport or New York.
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Is there just something about public transport—the strange, stiffly bristled seats, the rigid seating arrangement, the lack of legroom, the tacky gray-flecked floors, the windows that only open a half inch at the top—that makes us this way?
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Jimmy Carter alienated congressional Democrats, especially House Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.), with his persnickety, condescending style, and his inability to develop a working relationship with members of his own party would make stiffly his ability to move a legislative agenda.
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It was a marked change from his previous comeback attempts, when Woods said that if he was playing, he was playing to win, a mantra he repeated even on weeks when he grimaced from pain afterward as he stiffly walked away.
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Ms. Stewart has named a French bulldog after him, as well as a leather tote, a shade of paint ("Sharkey Grey" was exclusively sold at Home Depot) and a cartoon character in a stiffly mannered children's animated web series she created.
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I stared at all the straight couples dancing stiffly to country music and knew that if I confessed to any of them what was going on with me in that moment, they would be polite at best and cruel at worst.
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She sailed out beautifully in a Marie-Antoinette-in-black-light look, but we hadn't even swallowed our first bite of cake when her dark lady, Miz Crumbs, entered stiffly to a too-clever, too-controlled, not-vulnerable-enough backing track.
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Dancers were warming up — one lay on the floor, her legs extended stiffly in front of her, doing crunches; others stood in the center of the room seeming to turn dance steps over in their minds before bursting into spectacular pirouettes.
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Lying stiffly beside it amid the foaming white cow-parsley were its occupants, a man and a woman, their pale legs sticking straight out in front of them, their shocked faces as rigid as dolls' faces, their summer clothes askew.
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Like much of her work, these paintings reveal an interest in artifice: The two stiffly posed figures on stage in Ceremony could be marionettes, especially read beside the jointed limbs of the dolls in Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie.
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So long as we're critiquing: People can immediately sense the difference between an earnest apology and stiffly scripted damage control, which is likely why her second attempt, shared on Twitter late in the week, was constructed to sound more heartfelt and sincerely regretful.
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"The Family," exhibited at the Stable Gallery in 21963, showed a painted-wood family reminiscent of Dorothea Lange's photographs of the Dust Bowl: a seated mother holding a baby, her three children standing at her side, all staring stiffly at the viewer.
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The hairs on my arms rise stiffly like the prickling pelt of a nettle leaf, and as if I have suddenly held copper wire to current I am seized with an uncontrollable shudder summoned from some primordial place behind the daylight mind.
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And her performance in "Apologia," a Roundabout Theater Company production directed a bit stiffly by Daniel Aukin, goes some distance in disguising the labored exposition of a work that never quite achieves a natural flow or moves you as much as it should.
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So she became something of a novelty: while white kids were picking up their blog nods for stiffly singing R&B licks over echoey guitars, she was depicted as a strange figure in music that crossed between pop, R&B, and electronic.
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So to outsiders it appeared to be an awkward moment on Tuesday for Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, as he sat stiffly by while President Trump criticized German defense spending and predicted that the United States would get along with Russia.
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The pair, daughter and son-in-law of the president, "were photographed staring stiffly out of a palace window, separated from the world and this dimension by a pane of glass and the empty space where their souls used to be," one user tweeted.
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That meant welcome cameos from small-screen characters and their actors—Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, and Kit Harington all played their parts, albeit this time their voices were heard coming from stiffly moving models rather than human actors slathered in fake blood.
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Yes, he stands on stages and stiffly clicks through PowerPoint presentations here and there — but at this point in his third act as a climate-change superhero, he's also jet-setting around the world, observing atrocious evidence that the planet has long since teetered toward catastrophe.
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The contemporary mainstream novel, which is realistic in technique and concerned, more often than not, with the lives and psychologies of ordinary people, doesn't seem an ideal vessel for tragedy, with its stiffly operatic formal conventions, its grandiose royal protagonists, and its plots inflected by the supernatural.
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Loving loves trains — indeed, some years ago he wrote a book with a title professing just that — and he has a stiffly mannered approach to the delights of permanent-way passage, the kind that made E.M. Frimbo so beloved a character of the old New Yorker.
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Standing stiffly next to the Turkish leader at a news conference in Berlin on Friday, she noted "deep-seated differences" between the two countries regarding press freedom and the rule of law, and she insisted that Mr. Erdogan release several political prisoners held in Turkey — including five German citizens.
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Mr. Lubitz sat stiffly in his dark suit, flanked by two lawyers, and faced journalists' questions about why he had chosen this, of all days, to try to cast doubt on the execution and findings of the investigation into the crash, in which his son and 149 others died.
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Sitting beside her daughter, Chelsea, and discussing their upcoming book, The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience, the former secretary of state sat stiffly upright when the subject turned to Trump and the latest reporting about his communication with the Ukrainian president on the Bidens.
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It was only as useful as a jab for a man with a sixty-eight inch reach was ever going to be, but he could throw it stiffly and opponents expected him to level change off it and try to put his head on their sternum to achieve inside position.
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Soji Shimada's MURDER IN THE CROOKED HOUSE (Pushkin, paper, $14.95), meticulously, if a bit stiffly, translated by Louise Heal Kawai, is one of those locked-room head-bangers that invite — "taunt" is more like it — the reader to decipher the clues and solve a murder along with an all-seeing detective.
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Ninth-seeded Williams, playing her 19th Roland Garros and the oldest player in the women's draw, had strapping on both knees and moved stiffly, especially in the first set, once losing her footing as she tried to reach a sliced short ball from her opponent that ended up in the net.
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Whether stiffly posed or more intimate, such as here, these self-portrait paintings demonstrate his sure hand and acute observational skills that he developed at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he devoted much time to copying the works of the Old Masters in the Musée du Louvre.
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Dressed in a black coat and a fur neck wrap, Ms. Hyon looked stiffly at the crowd but later flashed thin smiles as South Korean officials whisked her onto a bullet train to Gangneung, an Olympic venue on the east coast where Ms. Hyon's art troupe is scheduled to perform during the Games.
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When Francisca invites someone into her home, she stands with her arms stiffly at her sides, turned outward so her wrists face forward; it's such a strikingly weird stance, compared to her guest's more normal body language, that it defines Francisca's isolation from normal society more than it would if she gibbered and raved.
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" After Mr. Macron was shown on Wednesday in television images sitting stiffly in a room with union officials while Ms. Le Pen was taking selfies with factory workers nearby, the former economy minister tried to show a more human side on Thursday, kicking a soccer ball around in an immigrant Paris suburb where "Mrs.
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Trump has called for building a safe zone at the same time as he has stiffly argued against allowing any more Syrian refugees into the US. Even though refugees undergo numerous screenings and a lengthy vetting process that can take more than a year, Trump has argued they could represent a national security threat to the United States.
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The contrary position holds that Pepper was a surrender to artifice, a fancifully precious compendium of ostensibly clever but ultimately curdling studio effects that obscured the songs underneath, hiding their weaknesses, piling on the strings and the harps and the clarinets and the tape hisses and the jinglejangle and the otiose noises until the end result stiffly topples over.
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In a field once governed by caution, audacity rules, insolent touches cropping up everywhere, from the stiffly beribboned fascinators at Lela Rose to the medieval-style sleeves veiling the models' fingertips at Vera Wang; and from caped looks at Badgley Mischka to the briefest of skirts at Naeem Khan, accented, improbably, with thigh-high satin boots.
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Once upon a time these kinds of not-entirely-clothes shocked New York out of its fashion stupor, but now they just looked familiar — in part because, a terrific stiffly-oversize anorak and a little pink dress aside, Mr. Oliver did not really seize the opportunity to make his id wrestle with a Langian belief in the indelible effects of refusal.
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But when it came to emphatically underdone chic, Ms. Vikander had nothing on Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Emily Blunt and Margot Robbie, each of whom turned her back on the highly lacquered, stiffly sculpted up-dos that dominated Oscars past in favor of a free-form tumble of waves, one of the freshest, least contrived looks to emerge on the red carpet in years.
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McConnell stood stiffly by the president for much of the press conference with his hands in his pockets, showing little emotion except for the moment he cracked a smile when Trump jabbed at Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, his 85033 election opponent.
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