Spalding has a formal manner, stiff upper lip, and fashionable clothes.
Up to a point performers are exempted from self-restraint - from keeping a stiff upper lip.
She was to keep a stiff upper lip.
The development of the stiff upper lip is liable to be accompanied by the development of a similarly rigid mind.
They do not like to admit it and there is a lot of stiff upper lip, but many of our colleagues are hurting.
The stiff upper lip and the poker face are in danger of freezing into a mask of anomymity.
However, there are now signs that they are no longer prepared, as they were in the past, to keep a stiff upper lip.
Often enough they try to maintain a good heart and a stiff upper lip when all the circumstances are against them.
