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stiff
«Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.»
«...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling...People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.»
Author: Judith Guest
(Novelist)
| About:
Depression
| Keywords:
crying, depression, give a damn, give vent, Plain People, reduction, reductions, sob, sobbed, sobbing, sobs, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, upper, uppers, vent, vents
«Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.»
Author: Meg Greenfield
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
in practice, in principle, objections, stiff, stiffest, stiffing
«He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!»
Author: Monty Python
| Keywords:
bereave, bereaved, bereft, bereft of, ceased, choir, choirs, curtain, daisies, expire, expired, expires, expiring, gone, invisible, joined, maker, nailed, nailing, no more, parrot, parrots, passed, perch, perched, perches, pined, pines, pining, pushing, push down, rests, ringed, ring out, Ring The, ring up, rung, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, The Choir, The Makers, The Nails
«I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.»
Author: Tallulah Bankhead
(Actress)
| Keywords:
claustrophobic, conventional, I Tried, lockjaw, neck, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, The Others, varieties
«For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death? / Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.»
«A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Apologies,
Insults
| Keywords:
apologies, apology, compensated, compensates, compensating, healed, injured, injured party, injuring, insult, party, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, wronged
«He's [Prince Charles] very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.»
Author: Madonna
(Actress, Singer)
| Keywords:
Charles, Prince Charles, salad, stiff, throwing, willy-nilly