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.

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But even in stiff-upper-lip Britain humanity breaks through.

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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".

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However Salafists - the ultraconservative fundamentalist Muslims - like to let their beards grow long and wild , often leaving their upper lip clean-shaven as a nod to how the Prophet Mohammed wore his own beard 1, 400 years ago.

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The evolution of the stiff upper lip is unexpectedly complex - emerging out of the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars as a reaction to what Britain's rulers felt was a dangerous unleashing of unrestrained passion on the continent.

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Keeping a stiff upper lip, Toyota management have justified the settlement as necessary to putting the 2009-2010 debacle behind it, so that they can focus on the future.

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One of the boys, the twelve-year-old Alex Libby, was born prematurely and now has a slightly curved and flattened upper lip.

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