| 1 | This person is inflexible. | |
| 2 | She was quite mechanical and unthinking in the way she ironed the shirts. | |
| 3 | Patriotic bunting as a frigid display of archaic pomp? | |
| 4 | How many times have you been bored rigid by conference speakers? | |
| 5 | "We also hope this training will soften the stiff image of bureaucrats," he added. |