His speech had a slight glaze and he moved with the stiff formality of a drunk.

Cooper, though, maintained the stiff formality of a news interviewer.

Seeing the stiff formality in Paul, she realized what these words were costing him.

Garlock was very glad that the military man's stiff formality had disappeared.

Got to attention, Whitney thought, annoyed by the stiff and impersonal formality.

Probably the official didn't notice, or if he did, thought it was stiff formality and not nerves.

The man shot another nervous glance at me, then drew himself up in stiff formality.

A curious stiff formality seemed to be coming into his speech.

"Forgive us if we frightened you," Scott said with stiff formality.

So maybe her stiff formality when she's playing herself these days is just an adopted persona she'd cop to, as well.