woodenly

The youth, with his chin still on his breast, stood woodenly by while his companion beat ways and means out of sullen things.

Fyne's hand extended to me woodenly and bowed over it with deference.

His eyes were still, his stare exalted and sullen; his face was set, was hard, was woodenly exulting over the grim inspiration that secretly possessed him, seethed within him, lifted him up into a stealthy frenzy of belief.

Mr Verloc obeyed woodenly, stony-eyed, and like an automaton whose face had been painted red.

2016) ("In exercising equitable discretion over motions for temporary relief, courts cannot woodenly employ a one size fits all mindset.").

Here, David is woodenly trying to ignore and avoid Bella even though the pair appear to be occupying a space designed more for one slim bum-cheek at the Dior show.

Garrick was not one to stand stiffly and woodenly declaim like many of his thespian predecessors.

Spicer opened his second White House presser with a mea culpa, sort of, joking woodenly about his first appearance.

But poetry is a machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy." From Curlers to Chainsaws isn't academic per se, but many essays carry a load of scholarship, often with agility, sometimes more woodenly. I was grateful for the lyric pieces in the collection, their "perfect economy" balancing the academic default.

(2) For Holmes, the common law was not an objectively ordered, "brooding omnipresence in the sky" (3)--not a body of rules existing "out there" like Plato's Forms for judges to discover, declare, and woodenly follow to resolve disputes.

Instead, although they have "escaped" war and are no longer in a war hospital, Frederic is only able to woodenly follow the doctors' and nurses' directives.