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  • But stiff-jointed or not, Joe Walsh can still sing.

    A Concert Review, Plus News About a Book 2010

  • The crowd cheered, playing along, knowing full well that if that stiff-jointed old man up there on the stage tried to trash a hotel room, it would probably kill him.

    A Concert Review, Plus News About a Book 2010

  • In the first production, Coward took the part of Frank, a soldier, survivor and cautious character, married to Ethel, who turns from a girl who's very pleased not to be a war widow into a woman who produces gales of mirth when she gives her sloshed hubby a wigging in her dressing-gown, and who is last seen as a stiff-jointed, stalwart granny.

    This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two – review 2011

  • The stiff-jointed Tomorrowland they envisioned depended on the eradication of Jews and other contaminated beings.

    The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

  • The crowd cheered, playing along, knowing full well that if that stiff-jointed old man up there on the stage tried to trash a hotel room, it would probably kill him.

    A Concert Review, Plus News About a Book 2010

  • But stiff-jointed or not, Joe Walsh can still sing.

    A Concert Review, Plus News About a Book 2010

  • Mercedes was heavy, disposed to gesture, swaying in the chair, hand-sweeping, but ably taking care of feeble Eddie, the imposter, the aching and stiff-jointed and gasping man.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Mercedes was heavy, disposed to gesture, swaying in the chair, hand-sweeping, but ably taking care of feeble Eddie, the imposter, the aching and stiff-jointed and gasping man.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Several small boys were brought to see him, and he spent a stiff-jointed afternoon trying to work up an interest in tops and marbles–he even managed, quite accidentally, to break a kitchen window with a stone from a sling shot, a feat which secretly delighted his father.

    Row Three » Read Fitzgerald’s Curious Case of Bejamin Button - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008

  • Mercedes was heavy, disposed to gesture, swaying in the chair, hand-sweeping, but ably taking care of feeble Eddie, the imposter, the aching and stiff-jointed and gasping man.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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