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This archness is purposeful—it is Ms. Edson's way of showing us how completely Vivian is out of touch with her feelings—but the cute self-mockery to which she stoops, which is italicized and underlined by Ms. Nixon's acting, is no more believable than the haze of sentiment through which her agonizing death is seen.

Into the (Spot)light Terry Teachout 2012

Some peeped from behind the blinds; some boldly came out on their "stoops" to eye the unfortunate schoolmaster askance.

How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long

On seasonable Sunday afternoons the burghers of Cordelia Street usually sat out on their front "stoops," and talked to their neighbours on the next stoop, or called to those across the street in neighbourly fashion.

Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920

The vacant lots, where the houses have been burned down, where nobody is sitting on the stoops, that is where you will have a crime problem. "

Blake Fleetwood: I Met My Wife on a NYC Stoop on a Warm August Night 2009

On seasonable Sunday afternoons the burghers of Cordelia Street usually sat out on their front "stoops," and talked to their neighbours on the next stoop, or called to those across the street in neighbourly fashion.

Youth and the Bright Medusa Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Virginia tavern with the usual "stoops" or low porches in front, above, and below.

Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Joseph Warren Keifer 1884

They were exactly alike -- large white doors, with an arched frame and wide side-lights, perched upon little "stoops" of red stone, which descended sidewise to the brick pavement of the street.

The Portrait of a Lady 1881

They were exactly alike -- large white doors, with an arched frame and wide side-lights, perched upon little "stoops" of red stone, which descended sidewise to the brick pavement of the street.

The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

I still maintain, as I commented last night after everyone had already left, that they should be referred to as "stoops" in keeping with the overall brownstone theme.

Brownstoner 2009

I'm totally with you on Eric, but I think what really irks me is that he almost "stoops" in the show.

The New Girl 2008