Significados de stiff formality en inglés

Poland walked unsteadily towards Bolitho and touched his hat with stiff formality.

Yet there was nothing of stiff formality about either Prescott or Anstey.

He still remained very cold, very forceful, although his stiff formality had vanished.

The stiff formality of his room would give me the creeps, if anything could.

Suydam cursed at the stiff formality in the man's tone.

Her manner to guests increased in stiff formality; and she was excessively firm with undesirables.

Then compare the stiff formality of the modern Eskimo drawing (Fig.

It is equally inconsistent with a stiff formality, an impertinent forwardness, and an awkward bashfulness.

He liked the stiff formality of the room.

Janos noticed the stiff formality in the handshake.

His distaste for her was apparent in both the frown he wore and an air of stiff formality.

Agrippa stood with stiff formality.

There was a numbing routine to these official liaison meals: starched uniforms, exotic headdresses, fruit juice, smiles, and stiff formality.

The two troopers were still there; and these saluted Stanley, with less than the usual stiff formality of the Mohammedan soldier.

The Commissary was a solemn person, full of the stiff formality exhibited by members of the French magistracy, the juniors especially.

But Ratcliffe was not one to do his present duty with levity on his tongue, and he bowed with stiff formality.