Meeting journalists was not something he did often, and interviews brought out a certain stiffness.

It was hard to remember that, because all he had left was a certain stiffness of carriage.

He seemed a pleasant enough young man, though, like all of them, bred with a certain stiffness to him.

There was a certain stiffness in him; Zamorh did not like to be disagreed with.

"Indeed," said John with a certain stiffness in his manner.

But there was a certain stiffness in the Chinese leader's manner now.

Even the face, despite a certain smooth stiffness, was his own.

He wore his new Captain's uniform with a certain stiffness.

They had in the end become good friends, and yet a certain stiffness had remained.

A certain unsmiling stiffness remained as the waiter brought the first course.