Woodenly

Mr. Bi's prose is as woodenly earnest as a smitten girl's love letters. ❋ Raymond Zhong (2011)

But instead I sat woodenly on the floor as Sebastian continued to grind the tiny piece of bone. ❋ Kelly Keaton (2011)

The next morning, Wind Cat appeared out of the dawn, crouched by our fire, and stared woodenly at the dancing flames. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

And though his casting agent has assembled a solid team of actors, everyone involved (with the exception of Schreiber) plays their roles even more woodenly than one sees in most action movies, thus dampening viewer involvement with the material. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Slowly my hand released the railing and I turned, going woodenly back up the stairs. ❋ Kelly Keaton (2011)

In this vicinity is a statue of himself seated rather woodenly on a horse. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And sure enough, last week's World Cup semifinal clash between the two yielded its share of photos of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seated woodenly beside his Pakistani counterpart, Yusuf Raza Gilani. ❋ Sadanand Dhume (2011)

You know, the show where alien ships hover over Earth week after week, with nothing much happening as Evil Queen Anna coldly plots the destruction of humanity with all those pesky emotional souls while a puny band of woodenly earnest resistance fighters plots Anna's takedown. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At the Munich Security Conference, Zhang Zhijun, China's vice-minister of foreign affairs, woodenly waffled on about how "the people of Asia" had chosen a different path from the west, and how the west should simply leave China to go its own way. ❋ Unknown (2012)

But absolutely no one follows (or should follow) it invariably and woodenly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Whoever said zombies went on slow romps hunting for the living, their arms outstretched, woodenly placing one foot ahead of the other? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rick pulled Stacy by the hand and she moved woodenly, like she was blindfolded. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Brielle said, without emotion, and walked woodenly over to Bullet. ❋ Allison Hobbs (2010)

His lines were delivered so unevenly and woodenly that it sounded like he was reading directly from the script. ❋ Unknown (2010)