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The editorial described Sonia Gandhi as "stiff and inarticulate" and said many people considered her "a ventriloquist's puppet and an instrument of a self-serving coterie."
Kissinger offers them a stiff foreign policy framework, a set of principles sharply contrasted to Clinton's ad hocism.
When he upends his campaign, yanks off his necktie, and engages his opponent, he's a risible Washington stiff trying to be what he's not.
Here is the text (superimposed on a photograph of the American flag snapping in a stiff breeze):
The latter is not readily analyzable by normal parsing, for if we are drawn to retain the adjectival nature of stiff (instead of conceding that it might be used as an adverb), we are obliged to characterize worried as having taken on the guise of a copula.