woodenly's Usage Examples:

scarcely amounts to a "substantial" taking, if that standard is not to be woodenly applied.

It's still a painly chintzy and woodenly delivered little affair, but if you happen to be a fan of the novel, Part.

The blank-faced characters stand up and speak their lines woodenly, without any perceptible motivation; of characterization, explanation,.

And the songs, which are woodenly delivered by Miss Shore, Mr.

She seems very natural and doesn't woodenly overact like her peers (sorry Duffster, but you have the sweetness, no.

more one thinks about it, this Geria production for Par release plays woodenly.

Where the Vulgate text of 3 Esdras is woodenly literal in its rendering of the Greek, the Old Latin text of 'First Esdras'.

" Howard Thompson of The New York Times thought that the film was "woodenly directed" and "should have been better.

The inexperienced Terry is so woodenly bad during rehearsals that Powell tries to get out of his contract with.

earlier domestic productions, in which "a group of stiff people moved woodenly and expelled inarticulate sounds", becoming something which could be enjoyed.

film as an "Uninspired mélange of flying saucers and vampirism" that was "woodenly directed and bogged down by long stretches of melodramatic dissension among.

The New York Times said the events of Flynn's life "are woodenly re-enacted without a trace of the passion, adventure or sexiness that blurred.

"possessor of a bombshell zombie's voice that can sound dreamily seductive and woodenly Mansonite within the same song".

It is also woodenly scripted, stiffly acted, funereally paced and impossible to follow on any.

acting goes, this reviewer stated that the actors either overacted or "walk woodenly through their roles.

Frankenstein's monster dances stiffly and woodenly.

all skeleton and little flesh: the actors trudge in front of the camera, woodenly recite the purely functional lines from Lamberto E.

Projected Man "dreadful stuff," saying that the film was "badly written, woodenly acted, and abounding in the cliches of the horror film genre.

effects man, Tom Savini, the real "star" of the film—the actors are as woodenly uninteresting as the characters they play.

by Variety in the phrase "cast, whether native English speakers or not, woodenly recite their lines.

Synonyms:

ungraciously; gracelessly; ungracefully;

Antonyms:

graciously; gracefully;