She's the trembly survivor of a family that stiff-upper-lipped its way through suicides and other tragedies.
From a story by John Logan, who worked with Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz on the stiff-jointed screenplay.
As Alex Brummer, financial editor of the Daily Mail, points out, by stiff-arming small depositors, European banking regulators have crossed a Rubicon.
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Between Mr. Day's stiff-upper-lip Victor and Mr. Gross's urbanely exasperated Elyot, this "Private Lives" is quite good enough to be worth seeing.
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Sport is an example: professional football was called off on the day of her death but stiff-upper-lip cricket went ahead after a minute's silence.
Schiff suggested the backlash was due primarily to a stiff-necked refusal among some people in the Liberty Movement to tolerate disagreement within the ranks.
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My brother walked toward the kitchen but my mother stiff-armed him.
Ms Abbott will argue that today's generation is "caught between the 'stiff-upper lip' approach of previous generations and today's cultural tornado of male cosmetics, white collar industry, and modernised workplaces".
As for the Hollywood years, Morris tells us that Reagan was not a great actor--too stiff--but he was not as bad as Warren Beatty and Jane Fonda have made out.
But even in stiff-upper-lip Britain humanity breaks through.
In the end, the play people will remember from Sunday is the final touchdown in overtime, the one in which Tebow hit Demaryius Thomas in stride 18 yards downfield before Thomas stiff-armed cornerback Ike Taylor and romped another 62 yards for the winning score.
The first of them, that of the immensely dangerous Kevin Pietersen, came off his first ball of the tournament, and prompted a howling, furrowed-browed, stiff-armed gallop of such intensity that it was as if the clock had been turned back and India's greatest captain was in charge of the national side again.
Casting elongated shadows in the ghostly gleam of headlights, the men pulled on tar-stiff overalls and knee-high rubber boots and set to work.
The form-vs-substance battle also rages over popular tax strategies like paying stiff intellectual-property licenses to foreign subsidiaries that also happen to siphon away all the profits of an otherwise lucrative business.
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Inside the North American Fur Auction, a reeking 15, 000-square-foot mausoleum, white-coated dealers from around the world pick among the 5.5 million stiff pelts--lynx, bobcat, mink, muskrat, fox, beaver and timber wolf among them.
Dan Recer, author of the book How to Disinherit Your Son-in-Law and Stiff the IRS--Keep Your Money in Your Family.
The cold and stiff o-rings at one joint didn't flex and seal as designed.
Adding to its woes is stiff low-end competition from Chinese and Indian makers.
Rashomon, featuring a feral bandit and stiff convention-bound couple, was criticized for portraying a backward Japan to the world.
You can see what he means about being "worth it" as sailing boats enjoy the stiff north-easterly pushing through the Sound.
He was a short and solid old man in a black peasant's smock and gray iron-stiff trousers and he wore rope-soled shoes.
Apparently, a very stiff pay-for-performance relationship, paying people a near obscene amount of money if they succeed, actually makes them less likely to perform well.
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What's more, because it had taken FIFA to a civil court, which is explicitly forbidden, the Swiss Football Association imposed a stiff 36-point penalty that will likely mean relegation.
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But stiff minimum-wage laws and other regulations have been chopping off the bottom rungs of the ladder and U.S. unemployment seems stuck at a high level, so American mobility may also take a hit.
Moroney believes Pfizer's drug pipeline--which includes drugs for asthma, smoking cessation, cancer and osteoporosis--should offset stiff competition from generic-drug makers in aging product lines.
The researchers found a "progressive rise" in both heart-related risk factors and stiff arteries as the triglyceride-to-HDL ratio increased.
The best deterrent is what has already happened--stiff sentences for the guilty.
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