The rage had gone from his face, replaced by woodenness.

Certainly the woodenness of my response to Tate was obvious.

X received this declaration with his usual woodenness and went on.

A sort of stiffness, almost of woodenness, had come upon her.

There was a certain woodenness about his movements.

Andrea noticed a curious woodenness in the faces round the Jeep.

And Michael York brings his unique brand of woodenness to that film as only he could.

But his performance had a woodenness about it, with the correctness of an accountant's ledger book.

I winced at the utter woodenness of my feigned surprise.

With so much going on, the sets themselves become the main events, and the characters often assume a proplike woodenness.

He expanded his persona with irony, making fun of his own woodenness.

If the subsidiary characters are somewhat better cast, a strain of woodenness runs through all the acting.

They go through stages of fragility, woodenness, pubescence, death and passion.

For once, his facial woodenness was laid aside.

Momentarily, until she controlled herself, Rose experienced their woodenness, their inner life.

It was to be inferred from the woodenness of his expression that nobody had believed it.

No basis to the charge of woodenness.

There's enough insincere enthusiasm and woodenness already in evidence without her mindless twitter.

A tremendous anger came over Horne so that he forgot the pain in his head, and the cold woodenness was burned out of him.

Kira said nothing, but the woodenness left her slender body as if an anticipated ordeal had been canceled.

Looking closely, you can see the actual woodenness and the delicate carving marks through the thin, colored stain.

Mr. Carey moves through all this with a woodenness that suggests either boredom or condescension.

They moved with a sort of dreadful and wicked woodenness, like a staring army of automatons.

She said with polite woodenness, "Thank you.

At other times, and particularly when the woodenness spreads throughout the canvas, it is more as though the artist was reaching for a kind of synthesis.