Significados de certain stiffness en inglés

There was a certain stiffness in her manner, which was new to me.

But Dick seemed to feel a certain stiffness in their welcome that was unusual.

Marcella gave her explanations with a certain stiffness of self-defence.

He also found a certain stiffness in their relationship.

She was extremely civil and polite, and everything went well except for a certain stiffness.

Mr. Carstyle rose slowly, with a certain stiffness.

She liked a certain stiffness in strangers.

Despite a certain stiffness of manner and speech, he was a man of kindly heart and simple, unworldly nature.

Marcella looked up with a smile, and pointed to a low chair, which Letty took with a certain stiffness.

He quickly remembered everything, and, stirring a little on his wooden couch he found a certain stiffness in the joints.

The frankness of Polly's flatteries, and the exuberance of her whole personality, ended by producing a certain stiffness in Laura.

She was sitting by herself, looking straight before her, with a certain stiffness, her thin hands crossed on her knee.

Though Chapman sometimes uses the pause and run-on lines freely, the regularity of the foot makes for a certain stiffness and inflexibility.

He suspected by the way she moved- alittleunevenness in her gait, a certain stiffness of the lower spine-thatthere were physical challenges.

There was a certain stiffness between him and Murray during the next few days, but they kept company to and from school as usual.

A certain stiffness of demeanour, and measured propriety of voice, much at variance with his former manner, came upon him as he said this.